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It’s very common for runners or athletes to call us, who are involved with running sports, because they have a foot problem. The most common foot problem we see is either ligament injury around the ankle because that is the most common ligament injury when you sprain your ankle and often ligament injuries don’t heal. About half of ankle sprains, give or take about ten percent, don’t actually heal completely. You might get pain free but, now all of a sudden you have got excessive joint mobility. That excessive joint mobility makes it more likely what? For you to get an ankle sprain in the future. So, you know if the ligament heals completely you wouldn’t have an increased rate of getting a second ankle sprain.

The reason why sports injuries often occur again and again in athletes is because the tissue wasn’t completely healed. Why wasn’t the tissue completely healed? Because the athlete did RICE: rest, ice, compression, elevation. Taking anti-inflammatories is a big one. Your ankle is hurting and you want to run tomorrow so you take an anti-inflammatory. You would be amazed how often we here of athletes who before they play tennis or whatever, take an anti-inflammatory because their body hurts. Your body is hurting for a reason. Your body is hurting because some tissue is injured. So, the treatment should be, as an athlete, is to get the tissue healed. If you continue to play athletics on an injured joint, even if you can’t feel it because you have taken an anti-inflammatory, its going to further injury, and need further treatments. Eventually, needing more invasive treatments, and is a joint replacement what you want as an athlete?

Another common injury that we see in runners is plantar fasciitis. But let me say one thing from the get go. Most cases of plantar fasciitis is not true plantar fasciitis. In other words, it is not an inflamed planter fascia. You can touch the planter fascia, and it’s not hot, or inflamed. It’s a degenerated planter fascia. So, right from the get go, it’s not plantar fasciitis. It doesn’t make any sense to be injecting steroids in there, which is just going to further degenerate the planter fascia. What a degenerated planter fascia needs is Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy stimulates the regeneration of the degenerated planter fascia. Generally after one to four visits, the runner is back to running.

The good thing as it relates to sports and Prolotherapy, Prolotherapy doesn’t interfere in the training of the athlete. You can still train while getting Prolotherapy.