Category: health

30 August 2017 PiYo Workout/Achilles tendinitis I’ve had (self diagnosed) tendinitis on my right ankle since the beginning of July. I stopped running a couple of weeks after the ache started, perhaps I should have stopped sooner. Anyway, I started doing these eccentric heel drops on August 11, with leg straight, then with legs bent…

First Published 10 April 2014Last Updated 01 July 2017 It’s been a week of needles… On Monday I went to see the Osteopath again. Chris found a particularly tender spot, the most painful yet, at the bottom of my spine, to the right. Same area the scan, from 3 years ago, noted some desiccation. So…

21 November 2017 – Shoulder Injury Previous post on shoulder injury So the shoulder injury has been back since early September – 2.5 months. I went to see a specialist, Mr Mark Jeffery @ Wimbledon Clinics last week and he gave this provisional diagnosis and then requested an ultrasound which I had two days later…

17 February 2016 (scroll down for updates) Left Hip and Cortisone Injection On Sunday 7th, after class, I decided to take a break from Capoeira because my hip would get better and then worse after class. Taking a break from running wasn’t enough, it felt like I had to stop Capoeira too. I focused on…

10 Jan 2016 Left Hip Injury September 2015: after completing Insanity in June, and continuing to do it regularly and also running some of my fastest times, and doing a lot of capoeira, my left hip started to hurt. I had a similar pain on my right hip a few years ago – which forced…