07 Therapy & Injury Archive
- Sick Leave
Just when I thought I could start training again, I was struck by a slight fever, achy bones, and a tummy ache yesterday. I spent the entire day in bed consumed by an overall feeling of blahness, thinking about 1) the near perfect weather for swimming, 2) missed gym visit that day, 3) downgrading my [...]
- Dry Needling Works Wonders for Tight Muscles
I was on that patient’s bed for a full 50 minutes this morning, lying flat on my stomach while squeezing a poor pillow to death, with my eyes shut tight for fear that I’d dash out the door once I saw those needles. Either I’m crazy or I’m a masochist, I thought. No one forced me [...]
- Desperate Runner
- My xray results. No fractures here. – “Are you desperate?” This was the question that my good ol’ doctor posed before me soon after he reviewed the tibia xray I submitted to him last Thursday. After visiting him regularly (perhaps “way too often” is a better description) the past weeks, he ruled out a [...]
- LQ
I wish I told you how ecstatic I was over my first ever mountain bike ride last Sunday where my Garmin got his first taste of a biking event and registered it at 40 min for 9km. Or, how my first Ashtanga yoga session last Wednesday completely blew me away and gave me a peek [...]
- Seeing Red
After my track run with Coach and Annie yesterday, I looked up at the red sky, changed into my red shirt, and drove home in my red car. Kissed my red husband good morning and woke up my two little red kids. I showered and saw my red self in the mirror. All I saw [...]
- Yoga & Pilates for Runners
“Everyone knows running is great for the cardiovascular system; however, it’s also a fact that the sport dramatically tightens certain muscle groups while doing nothing for others.” – Bender Birch Couldn’t agree with you more, Mr. Birch! For the longest time now, I’ve been interested in trying yoga or pilates to stretch these tight muscles [...]
- Kinesio Tape to the Rescue
Who would have thought that an inch-thick tape would create so much buzz among sports doctors, therapists, and athletes all over the world? According to www.kinesiotaping.com, Kinesio Taping has become “the gold standard for therapeutic rehabilitative taping.” Invented by a Japanese doctor almost three decades ago, the elastic tape “corrects muscle function, improves circulation of [...]
- New Year, New Injury
It was a Saturday so I was all set for my long run, 22km to be exact. Things were going smoothly—quite perfectly in fact—as I kept a steady pace below 6:30 and maintained my heart rate in Zone 3. The cool weather gave me an extra reason to smile (and a good excuse to keep [...]
- Sore No More—Really!
This time it’s for real… I am back! My 7-day forced abstinence from running is officially over. I am healed! – Annie and I after our run. We look so poised! You wouldn’t believe that we were laughing like noisy high school girls before this shot. It was a happy happy day. – I ran [...]
- Spoke Too Soon
I made it to the Mizuno Run Club last night. But, disappointingly, I wasn’t there to run. Shortly after I published the previous post yesterday, I headed for SM to run errands. As I swept through the department store purchasing everything on my list in haste, I noticed my knee popping again. And again. And [...]
