diagnosis

[anotheranon]

After a recurrence of my foot weirdness, I decided to nip things in the bud and go to an orthopedist.

Surprise (or not)!: plantar fasciitis. Happily the practice does a lot of sports medicine so their recommended treatment isn't "stop doing that".

I do need to take a break though, and would be taking tonight off if I didn't already have a lesson scheduled. As it is I'm taking ibuprofen and icing my feet before I go in late and will do more ice when I get back. I will [wince] not fence Sunday :( And much as I want to compete this month I'm going to hold off until I've got at least a couple of physical therapy sessions under my belt (1st appt. on 6/11).

The doctor's opinion is that foot exercises and anti-inflammatories/icing might help things; failing that I can change shoes or get custom orthotics - the x-rays evidently showed no abnormalities like bone spurs or the like. He was efficient and confident that this is fixable. I'm just glad I'm catching this now rather than waiting for things to get really bad.

But I'm going to be a bit cranky until I can get back up to my regular fencing schedule...

Comments

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

There is such a thing as wheelchair fencing (http://www.paralympic.org/release/Summer_Sports/Wheelchair_Fencing/), but my condition isn't that dire - I just need to rest a bit.

And yeah - though I wasn't in a lot of pain I thought that going numb was enough of a warning sign to look at it now rather than wait until things were really bad.

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Knew about wheelchair fencing, but like you said, your condition isn't that dire.

But fencing based on the office chair scoot ... now there's a challenge! The unpredictableness of those 5 wheels that all have minds of their own, the risk of spinning round and round till you're dizzy if blades connect too hard (or miss entirely), and loads of other things that my warped little mind hasn't even thought of yet!

Or maybe with unicycles ... ;p