Can't walk or stand up? Ride bike instead.
Dan O
Riding home yesterday, I cut across the old railroad right-of-way,
which went fine (even though it was very wet and muddy), but when I
came to the final obstacle - a deep ditch crossing - it was full of
water.
Not wanting to lose momentum, I rode on into it, but the water was
loaded with wet leaves, and I stalled. Fortunately I got a foot
unclipped and down (into the water, of course - which was still better
than going all the way down in the water).
Then when I lifted my foot up and forward to pull myself and bike out
of the ditch, there was a strong stabbing pain in the back of my leg
just below the knee.
I gingerly climbed out of the ditch, and got off the bike to clear
leaves from the brakes and drivetrain. Man it hurt! I still had like
24 miles to go into a headwind, and started considering if I might
need to call somebody to come and get me. I clipped back in and
started riding; that didn't feel so bad. Maybe I could "ride it off".
Riding on the rest of the way home, it was slow going into the
headwind wearing a rain jacket, but the leg didn't feel too bad. In
fact, it didn't hurt much at all to pedal the bike.
When I got home and off the bike, though, I found that it still hurt
really bad trying to stand up or walk.
Today it feels a little better, which is encouraging, but I still have
to walk very carefully, and it feels like it could be a couple of
weeks before I'm recovered if everything goes well.
I figured right after it happened that it must have been hurt because
those particular muscle structures weren't used for bicycling and
therefor weren't prepared to handle the sudden extension (probably
made worse by sudden twisting for the panic unclip). Weird, though,
how I could still ride bike pretty much fine with an acutely
debilitating leg injury.
Ben C
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> I figured right after it happened that it must have been hurt because
> those particular muscle structures weren't used for bicycling and
> therefor weren't prepared to handle the sudden extension (probably
> made worse by sudden twisting for the panic unclip). Weird, though,
> how I could still ride bike pretty much fine with an acutely
> debilitating leg injury.
Hope your leg's all right. Walking is harder than one thinks. I could
ride the bike long before I could walk without a stick when I broke my
leg a while back.
Every little thing has to be working pretty much perfectly to be able to
walk smoothly without any kind of a limp.
Tim McNamara
<9ebabec6-136f-4484...@h9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
Dan O <danov...@gmail.com> wrote:
I hope it's just a strain and not a torn ACL or something like that.
--
"I wear the cheese, it does not wear me."
thirty-six
Get someone to examine the sole of your foot in case you have
something embedded in there tweaking at a nerve. It may have happened
another time and the skin healed over and its just that you've managed
to iritate it. Give your feet a good soak in hot water with your
favourite bath salts.
Tim McNamara
<28dac422-6b1a-45c1...@m3g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
Dan O <danov...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 1, 5:21 pm, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote:
> > In article
> > <9ebabec6-136f-4484-8431-05fae34f7...@h9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
> Me too. I'm not too worried about it yet*.
>
> Come to think of it, I hyper extended this same knee when I was about
> 30 years old (a long time ago). My foot got caught between the slats
> of a pallet, and I couldn't bring myself to simply drop the very big
> and heavy whatever-it-was that I was holding. I got sent to the
> doctor on worker's compensation, and he sent me to the physical
> therapist next door, but they wouldn't take me off work (warehouse
> labor). That took a *long* time to heal (after the workplace closed
> down and my leg got some rest); not sure it was ever the same again,
> actually.
>
> The other knee has been messed up since I was about 16. I dropped my
> flattrack bike on it repeatedly, it ballooned up (not swelled up - it
> actually filled to shockingly puffy with fluid) for the better part
> of a year, and to this day I have stretch marks and it feels like
> somebody shot Novocaine under the lower medial kneecap area.
>
> Have no doubt that I *am* extremely grateful I can do as much as I
> can.
>
> I was having some shoulder trouble a while back (that bundle of
> nerves that comes out the side of your neck, I think), but that got
> better. Now, though, the other shoulder has been acting up (feels
> like maybe bicipital tendonitis?) long enough to worry me some.
>
> * Seeing as I used to push my luck racing motorcycles - and other
> stuff - in my seemingly invincible youth, I have been hurt and healed
> often enough that the whole business is routine and familiar, but of
> course it's much different now Sucks getting old :-), even if it is
> better than the alternative.
I gave up martial arts about 15 years ago when I realized I was going to
be just good enough to end up with chronic injuries.