After 4 weeks out due to the knee injury I'm finally able to start training again.
After finally getting checked out I was told that I damaged my medial collateral ligament, the ligament on the inside of your knee to you an me, its responsible for knee stability so I didn't really want to risk permanent damage by coming back prematurely.
Training has started slow, its more rehabilitation for the knee at the moment. I have started with swimming, today was my first session since damaging the knee 4 weeks ago. It was tough and I was surprised at how much fitness I had actually lost from not doing any cardio for 4 weeks. I'm currently way off the 1 mile front crawl mark but I'm definitely improving on my technique.
I'm going to postpone running for another week as the damaged ligament still isn't fully healed.
Things are starting to look at bit more positive again, hopefully I can remain injury free for the next few months!! :)
Wednesday 28 April 2010
Tuesday 6 April 2010
Injury Misery
Well it's another week on and the injury received from football 2 weeks ago is still hanging around preventing me from doing any training last week :(
Stupidly I played an 11-aside match the Sunday before last, believing the injury to the knee was almost healed. However, during the last 10mins of the game... after being very careful, I took a harsh tackle from a member of the opposing... very upset team that we beat 4-0 in the end.
I'm now left with a swollen shin and very agitated knee, I really should go and get a scan from the hospital... but the prospect of having to wait to at-least 3-4hrs to get seen is keeping me from doing so! Also, I've had injuries similar to this before and the old RICE (rest,ice.compression,elevation) method has always worked.
I'm going to leave it a few more days to see if the swelling goes down, if not it will be a trip to the hospital.
I can't bare another week not training, the worst case scenario right now is that it is more serious than first thought and I can't train for months.
Fingers crossed this is not the case.
Will keep you posted.
Stupidly I played an 11-aside match the Sunday before last, believing the injury to the knee was almost healed. However, during the last 10mins of the game... after being very careful, I took a harsh tackle from a member of the opposing... very upset team that we beat 4-0 in the end.
I'm now left with a swollen shin and very agitated knee, I really should go and get a scan from the hospital... but the prospect of having to wait to at-least 3-4hrs to get seen is keeping me from doing so! Also, I've had injuries similar to this before and the old RICE (rest,ice.compression,elevation) method has always worked.
I'm going to leave it a few more days to see if the swelling goes down, if not it will be a trip to the hospital.
I can't bare another week not training, the worst case scenario right now is that it is more serious than first thought and I can't train for months.
Fingers crossed this is not the case.
Will keep you posted.
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