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Last Saturday I was trampolining in the garden with my partner and also my younger sister who had come to visit, after a while I got a little bored with the usual bouncing up and down and felt it my duty to try various stunts. Now i've played around on this trampoline loads of times, but on this particular day I was determined I'd surpass my usual somersault where I land on my back/bum and land back on my feet. Needless to say it went wrong - I came away from then middle of the trampoline and landed towards the edge, *SMACK* my left foot came from over my head and I hit the underside of my heel pretty hard on the steel frame.
It didn;t hurt much at the time, but I thought perhaps I should stop for the day before I did myself any more damage. Sunday morning and my foot was quite sore, bruised I thought, and this got worse on Monday to the point where I was limping quite noticeably. Tuesday I could walk a little better, Wednesday I managed a little jog and thursday I managed football. I could still feel some kind of bruising but the pain wasn't really bothering me and I could walk normally again. Then Sunday and Monday it began to come back a little again. This morning I woke up and felt the same as I had last week, with a dull aching feeling from the underside of my heel. Walking today has hurt a lot and I'm again hobbling around everywhere quite badly.
Tried to get a docs appointment but nothing today, will try and get something tomorrow, but looking around on t'interweb everything related to my symptoms points to plantar fasciitis (other than I've not found 'banging foot on trampoline' to be one of the common causes). I may be jumping the gun by self-diagnosing myself but the descriptions of the injury sound all too familiar and I fear I'm going to be on the sidelines for a while
It was only last night that I was thinking about how frustrated I was that I hadn't done much running and was very much looking forward to joining up with the running club tonight to get my training back on track.
Anyway, rest, ice & ibuprofen for the meantime. What are peoples experiences with PF? How long am I likely to be out? (assuming my self diagnosis is about right)
It didn;t hurt much at the time, but I thought perhaps I should stop for the day before I did myself any more damage. Sunday morning and my foot was quite sore, bruised I thought, and this got worse on Monday to the point where I was limping quite noticeably. Tuesday I could walk a little better, Wednesday I managed a little jog and thursday I managed football. I could still feel some kind of bruising but the pain wasn't really bothering me and I could walk normally again. Then Sunday and Monday it began to come back a little again. This morning I woke up and felt the same as I had last week, with a dull aching feeling from the underside of my heel. Walking today has hurt a lot and I'm again hobbling around everywhere quite badly.
Tried to get a docs appointment but nothing today, will try and get something tomorrow, but looking around on t'interweb everything related to my symptoms points to plantar fasciitis (other than I've not found 'banging foot on trampoline' to be one of the common causes). I may be jumping the gun by self-diagnosing myself but the descriptions of the injury sound all too familiar and I fear I'm going to be on the sidelines for a while
It was only last night that I was thinking about how frustrated I was that I hadn't done much running and was very much looking forward to joining up with the running club tonight to get my training back on track.
Anyway, rest, ice & ibuprofen for the meantime. What are peoples experiences with PF? How long am I likely to be out? (assuming my self diagnosis is about right)