It’s not only runners who injure their calf muscles. We’ve seen patients who have torn muscles from simple slips/trips, riding skateboards, high heels, dancing, trampolining… the options are endless. A calf injury can be debilitating and often reoccur. Getting a thorough and accurate diagnosis is the best way to prevent ongoing issues.
Your calf is made up of more than one muscle.
A strain is the over-stretching or tearing of a muscle or tendon. A sprain is the same in the ligaments. The most common ligament sprain we see? The ankle.
Sprains can occur in multiple places but most commonly on the outside of the ankle (the lateral ligaments). How do you know if that’s what you have?
Some groin injuries are unavoidable (like when you have Cameron Smith pulling your legs apart!) but here are some things you can do to prevent over-loading injuries.
Top tips for minimising your risk of a groin injury:
As winter sport season continues and the injuries start to roll into the clinic here is a timely reminder about how to manage an injury, specifically in children.
There are mountains of research about what is the best way to manage injury but unfortunately this information isn’t always conveyed to the general public. So, if you are watching your child’s game and there is an incident, try to remember these basic principles. [Read more…]
Patients often come into the clinic using these words interchangeably to describe anything from a twisted ankle to a pulled hamstring. They are not the same.
A sprain refers to an injured ligament. Ligaments are fibrous bands of tissue that connect your bones to each other. They provide a passive limit to the amount of movement between bones.
A strain refers to injury to a muscle or tendon. The tendons in your body are what attach your muscles to your bones.
