Re: Jamming my foot/ankle
- From: Dot <dot.h@#duh?att.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:24:10 GMT
eatumg@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I've been tweaking my ankle (esp on trails with leaves) by unexpectedly coming down on a root or rock and having my foot jammed upward. My ankle does not roll to the side, but it does feel like a sprain. It hurts bad enough that I roll around on the ground for a few seconds. Fortunately, the pain subsides quickly - I can walk it off and resume running within a couple of minutes.
For me, it only happens on my left foot (probably because I did it once
and now that ankle is weaker). Also, it generally only happens on a
mild upslopes. I can prevent it by running on the ball of my foot, but
this gets tiring.
Try more mid-foot landing - anything but landing on heel. I used to do that when I was really new to trails and wasn't very good endurance wise on mid-foot yet. Foot/ankle strengthening, agility, proprioception drills, etc. work wonders.
On my trails, where I do have roots, I can usually step between them on forefoot, although I'm sure there's trails somewhere where the roots are dense enough that wouldn't work. But landing heel first or with arch across a root is not good.
I can't help you on fixing anything since it only bothered me for a few steps - it was mostly the crunching shock of it.
Dot
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