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![]() Hi,
![]() I have a torn calf muscle since November 2012 and I cant solve it. After 200-300 yards of walk I switch to limping. It hurts more when I have to ascend. When I continue to walk, I lose feeling in some areas of my feet like the toes. I made the mistake of playing basketball only two months after the injury and I cant solve it since then. Its about 4 months since playing basketball and aggravating the injury. Can you give me some practical advice please or refer me to a reliable website? When I walk, the pain is at the higher area of the calf (not at the connection with the Achilles tendon) and I have no clue how to train and strengthen this area. After reading Wikipedia it maybe one of these two muscle groups: "gastrocnemius" or "soleus". Many thanks
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![]() Hot swimust
You probably need to see a doctor or at least a physiotherapist. Your injury may recover naturally if you just rest it - rest is a great healer, but if there is severe damage, which there probably isn't, since you can walk on it to some extent, you may need intervention. Have you tried the usual remedies of ice, heat and massage? Not to mention horse (or donkey) liniment, of course ;-) Body builders used to swear by horse liniment. |
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I was too confident and started playing basketball too early (after about 2 months) and it got much worse. Basketball is the worst sports for such injury because of the sudden pressures on the calf. It doesn't go away for 4 months... rest or no rest. I tried both rest and exercise. Maybe I don't know how to treat it and which exercise to do. Its a very tricky injury because of the changing body weight and the big forces working on the calf.
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Manual therapy like massage, trigger point, graston technique, active release therapy may all help. Quote:
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I was trying some exercises which may have damaged the muscle. I.E. - climbing a step repeats on one leg. Many Thanks ![]()
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