Subconcious fear of becoming injured?

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runnerchick

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Another thing that I’ve found really helpful when keeping up my fitness after my stress fractures has been a cross-training machine. I think they’re also called eliptical machines–or something like that. It feels a lot like running, but it doesn’t have the impact.

runnerchick



fox

9 10

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good stuff,
aqua jogging is an awesome workout!! and takes the impact right out of it too!
Love it!!



giles

9 10

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Have you tried aqua-jogging. It’s been really good for me and my housemate, both of us recoving from surgery. I have started running again a little, and the fitness from the pool sessions have helped no end. Another thing to bare in mind is not to try and get back in training too soon.
good luck



runnerchick

9 10

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Whew. Good thing to know I’m not the only one always having problems! I guess it’s true that once you have one thing, you’re more likely to have another. Just like Sarah_g91, my problem started out with one thing. In my case it was a stress fracture on my tibia and it has just been one thing after another since then. Oh well. Thanks for the comments!

runnerchick



sarah_g91

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I do think that once you start getting injuries it can be difficult to break the cycle!

I have been struggling over the past two years.

Although for some people it could be put down to overtraining in my case it definately isn’t!

I suffered a medial ligament strain in my elbow over a year and a half ago, and I can honestly say that my other injuries since then would not have happened if I hadn’t suffered this injury!
I do Ju jitsu and was trying to train on the left hand side so as not to hurt my right elbow. I then injured my left wrist. If I hadn’t had a bad elbow my left wrist would not have been locked to be injured!
Then I had to go back to training right handed, but that was ok because after 8-10 weeks off with my wrist my elbow was getting stronger and could cope! But I then totally reinjured the elbow. This obviously wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t injured in the first place.
So I then had a further 4 months off with this, (in fact just over 4 months).

But since the time my elbow was 1st injured I was suffering pain in my left shoulder due to having to sleep on that shoulder because it was less painful on my elbow. I coudn’t clear this up, but I had been suffering mild pain on and off for years like this, it never bothered my training as it was fine once warmed up and didn’t seem to be getting any worse so I carried on! Also the 4 months I had off didn’t help clear it, so rest didn’t help!
BUT….within 3 and half weeks of returning to training having had over 4 months off, my shoulder became extreamly painfull.
I then found out that it’s an AC joint seperation.
And like I said this was due to sleeping on that shoulder constantly because of my elbow.
I have been out of training again because of my shoulder for nearly 13 weeks and am only just now trying to do some very light work with it as it is still painfull.

So in the last year I have litterally only done a matter of a few weeks training. And all because of my elbow.
I have now got to the stage where instead of thinking, right I am nearly fit, I am wondering what it will be next because I am sure there will be something!!!
In fact my hip is sore so I think it’s waiting to pounce!!! But I am going to get it checked out and hopefully stop it before it gets worse.

Sarah.




turls

9 10

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Hi,

After so many injuries it is a natural reaction to have a fear of getting injured. Ive been in the same boat but things are starting to look better for me.

i think that it takes time to regain confidence in your body and be able to fully apply yourself in training.

The thing that helped me out most once an injury is sorted out, is to install an injury prevention programme into your training to reduce the odds of you getting injured next time.

After injuries it is important that this injury prevention programme takes a greater inportance then your specific running programme itself. You have to build solid foundations before you build your castle on top! The things that im gonna include in more injury prevention programme are:

advanced stretching,
core body strengthening exercises,
specific lower limb stregthening exercises,
regular sports massage or self massage,
regular iceing,
cold baths after tough sessions,
cross training eg water running + cycling,
biomechanical re-adjustments eg technique training and orthotics.

things like running on grass and not waring spikes in training help to prevent overuse injuries. I spent a whole track session running on grass tracks in training and still managed to run 4.04 for 1500m!!

Its simple programmes like these that can help you pschologically recover from all your problems, because if you know that you have built solid foundations and taken good injury prevention messures then you greater confidence that you have reduced the possibility of future injuries.

you must ask you self “have i done all that i can to prevent injury”? if the answer is yes then you can build up you training, if no then more work needs to be done to build you foundations.

Think of the long term results and not the short term.



goldenhandz

9 10

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hello runner chick

first thought is you are over training, with the vast amount of injuries that you have had. something is wrong. next is the injury mind set if you continue to think of being injured you will be. creating a selffilling prophecy. use positive affirmations, i run great. i feel awesome. i am powerful. you create them. good luck