Listed below are common injuries in running that acupuncture can treat. Don’t see your injury listed? Please contact me for more information.

Common Injuries in Running

Plantar Fascitis

Symptoms:

  • Ongoing, chronic pain on the bottom of the foot or along the sides of the foot
  • Pain getting out of bed or after sitting for a period of time

Causes:

  • Runners with high or low arches
  • Increasing running mileage too quickly
  • Poor footwear
  • Biomechanical imbalances

Achilles Tendonitis

Symptoms:

  • Pain and/or swelling above your heel
  • Pain standing on toes
  • Dull pain in the heel which disappears with ice

Causes:

  • Training on hilly roads
  • Tight or weak calf muscles

Shin Splints

Symptoms:

  • Pain down the front of the lower leg
  • Pain can be sharp and achy

Causes:

  • New runners
  • Runners doing too much too quickly
  • Poor footwear
  • High or low foot arches

Runner’s Knee

Symptoms:

  • Pain in or outside the knee with walking or running
  • Twinges with running which dissipate with continued movement but later returns after your run is finished
  • Pain worse with sitting

Causes:

  • Biomechanical imbalances, such as tight hamstrings and hip flexors

Hamstring Injuries

Symptoms:

  • Sudden sharp strong pain in the back of the thigh
  • Chronic achiness and tightness that forces you to slow down

Causes:

  • Tight hamstrings
  • Overly flexible hamstrings

Iliotibial Band Syndrome

Symptoms:

  • Pain from the outside of the knee and radiates to the hip
  • Pain gets worse walking down hill or down stairs

Causes:

  • Running frequently downhill
  • Increasing mileage too quickly
  • Biomechanical imbalances

Back Pain

Including herniation of disks, arthritis in the back, sprained and strained muscles

Symptoms:

  • Pain, stiffness, spasms and swelling in the back
  • Possible numbness, tingling and weakness related to nerve involvement
  • Pain in the back when taking the correct posture to swing
  • Inability to bend over or get up from a chair
  • Unable to twist

Causes:

  • Running on a hard surface
  • Weak back muscles
  • Poor posture
  • Poor footwear

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