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Kaffeee, bottom 4? He isn't quite that slow!
Do you mean bottom quarter?
DF3 - you will be horrified to know I let you down. I went back to my sports injury clinic yesterday. I don't have an injury at the moment but I know there are some small underlying issues with my gait . I guess I stuck two fingers up at Aunty Google
I credit injury free training, and then completing a couple of marathons over the past two weeks without issue due to adjustments / rehab / stregthening exercises given to me - this cost less than a pair of addidas boost which turn out not to be that fast after all
Yeah, and a doctor is someone who's not good enough to be a surgeon.
Whatever... The point being, if your problem is of the type "forget about it and everything will be OK", then your self-diagnosis/Google gamble will pay off, but if it's something more serious then the physio has a place, either in diagnosis and treatment or, in my case, quickly eliminating possible mis-diagnoses (e.g. ultrasound showing no muscular problems) and referral to the appropriate expert. I'm hardly likely to experience the first twinge in the hip and say "Ooh, I must go and say hello to my local orthopaedic specialist and book some keyhole surgery. This feels distinctly like my hip joint isn't quite as round and smooth as it should be..."
Thanks for asking, the femeroacetabular impingement appears to be behaving itself and I've been running injury free for 16 months. I've got quite good at spelling it now, having typed it out a fair few times. If it helps, it's also acceptable to refer to it as FAI.
Cheers guys, then today it feels OK and you start thinking should I shouldn't I go running see how it feels. The A & E Doctor said it was a soft tissue foot injury and take a week off see how it feels. I then google like DF3 says and as stated I have Aids and scrot rot
Is a tendon injury classed as soft tissue, but wouldn't a tendon injury be noticeable when walking not just running? I don't know 
No, I mean the bottom 4. By his own account he finished ahead of the lAst three runners on his marathon. He is that slow! Which still makes me laugh out loud.
Just massively silly really, even if you're on the wind up
Doctor's are general experts not specific experts, certainly not on sporting injuries! When i go to a doc with a niggle it's a simple exchange, they ask if i've done the general things, rest, NSAIDs, I say yes, then they whack me on the physio register, for people trained fully in that field.
AND you were the slowest male were you not? So actually, stevie - if you compare like for like: he came last. Bottom. Completely and utterly at the back of the field.
It's just too easy.
so in conclusion...it wasn't a good day out for DF
If only Auntie Google could give hugs.
My own Doctor (rowed for Cambridge) says that GP's know a bit about a lot while specialists know a lot about a bit.
He said I knew a lot more about running related problems than he did. In fact he said, most runners who are interested in the subject of running related injuries know more than GP's.
Running/sports injuries are a specialist area.
🙂
i'd agree with that Ric, and the doc said similar to me last time out.
that's why these days if i ever need physio i quickly say the right things, don't waste the doc's time, get a referral, and he can get on with doing real doctoring...
Are you in London?
www.londonphysiotherapy-homevisit.com
Would definitely recommend these guys to anyone on a budget in London.
They are now specialised in neurology, but they still do sports injuries with motivation support and everything...
Amen.
sorry for hijacking your post!
thanks