Dear Luke
How about more details of the taping. Scan us a photo maybe or two?
In message <[log in to unmask]>, luke harris
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>although the words "in my experience" coming from a 19 year old might
>bring a wry smile to the faces of some...
>
>i work for aussie rules football team, and one of my players came to
>me complaining of 'shin splints'. now, i was aware that 'shin splints'
>is a rather broad term and can mean different things to different
>people, so i decided to have a peek anyway and see what i could learn.
>
>the basic result was that the pain came on shortly after commencing
>physical activity and took up to a few hours to ease after stopping
>the activity (but obviously not as long to ease when the activity was
>ceased earlier). the pain was aggravated on active plantarflexion,
>isometric contraction of plantarflexors, and nor present on passive
>plantarflexion.
>
>i spoke to one of my colleagues at uni (a qualified podiatrist with 15
>years clinical experience who has decided to make a career chaneg -
>and is now in second year physio) about this, and if he had any
>recommendations. he showed me a type of taping which is essentially a
>few stirrup-like strips, from the level of insertion of the affected
>muscle, over a low-dye base. (there's a little more too it, but that's
>put nice and simply).
>
>i went back to my player, applied this taping technique, and as if by
>miracle the pain did not occur during training. so i repeated this
>method for training sessions and games and he had no complaints.
>
>now there is cause here for some of you to say "the problem may have
>resolved prior to the first taping, and so there was no problem
>present for the tape to be acting on". well, some training nights when
>i wasn't able to be there, he played without the tape, and experienced
>these problems. so that kinda supports it effectiveness.
>
>one of my friends also works for a junior footy team, and two weeks
>ago, when she was unable to be at the game, i filled in for her. one
>of her players was also complaining of 'shin splints'. after a quick
>examination (yeilding a similar pattern to my player), i felt that
>attempting this same technique on him was justified... and it worked
>brilliantly! he didn't complain of the problem at all during or after
>the game. i think he was more amazed than anyone.
>
>so, although this may not be helping the condition in the long-run, it
>seemed to help these individuals to the extent that they could play a
>full game pain-free. both of these individuals were complaining of
>tibialis posterior pain, and so i'm eager to find an athlete with
>tibialis anterior 'shin splints' to see if they'll let me attempt the
>same technique on them.
>
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