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Owfred
08-17-2005, 07:27 PM
Hi,

Yesterday night, I suddenly felt a slight pain when I walk. The pain is located right above my achilles tendon and below my calf muscle on the fibula side of my leg. It only hurts when I walk down/up the stairs, and when I am on my toes(for running and such). It seems like I must have hurt a tendon or something to that extent. I play tennis 2-4 hours a day 7 days a week, and this is the first time this has happened. I played tennis today with this condition and I tried my best not to run, but every so often, I would feel a numbing pain (not painful, but irregular feeling). I noticed that yesterday, I was running a lot for dropshots at full speed and stopping abruptly to avoid the net cord, which might have triggered it. Does anybody know what I am talking about? And what would be the best way for me to make a quick recovery?

PHSTennis
08-17-2005, 08:13 PM
That happened to me after skating for 6 hours yesterday... and when I jump off the board and just stopped abruptly like you did to avoid the net and I felt that pain too. Its getting better now I just slept for about 20 hours catching up on 3 days missed.

phil10s
08-17-2005, 08:19 PM
I was running down a drop shot last year.. came to a stop... POW.. tore my cafe.. in the very area you descibe. BE CAREFUL. Theres alot of stress on that area for people like us who are encouaged to run on the fronts of their feet.