The RunningDr SportsMedicine Clinic Repetitive Motion Injuries by Dr. Timothy J. Maggs 1999 A fter more than 75 calf pulls between 1987 and 1995, I believe I qualified as a professional patient. All of the emotional and physical setbacks that come with these life altering, or at least schedule altering, injuries for a runner were like a bad neighbor I couldn't get away from. Ironically, it was through my eyes as the patient, not as a sportsmedicine specialist, that made me truly see the void in the treatment menu available to the sick and broken.
Repetitive motion is a term frequently heard when discussing industrial injuries.
Many jobs involve the same motions with similar activities and, especially with people who aren't conditioned, injuries occur. But, when talking about athletics, specifically running, we've never heard repetitive motion spoken in the same sentence as calf pull , hamstring pull , ilio-tibial band syndrome , low back pain , plantar fascitis , patellar tendonitis , achilles tendonitis or hip pain . Muscles fail to recover fully before we ask them to perform again. And when we push a muscle beyond what it is capable of doing, bad things happen. This gross void in our sportsmedicine system reverberated loudly in my brain.