Ken's Road to Kona » injury http://kensroadtokona.com One triathlete's quest to qualify for Kona by 2011 (er 2013?) Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:33:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 MRI http://kensroadtokona.com/2009/08/23/mri/ http://kensroadtokona.com/2009/08/23/mri/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:22:53 +0000 Ken http://kensroadtokona.com/?p=233 I got an MRI today. I mentioned in my last post that I had some pain on the run. The pain was in my right shin around mile 15ish or so. Not sure, but I know I felt it on the way to the finish. While I was on vacation in London and Romania the rest of my body healed, but there was still sharp pain.

Stress Fracture

Upon my return, I’ve been dealing with all these ridiculous procedures to get an MRI. I had a doctors appointment, but somehow it’s taken me over a week from the appointment, just to get an MRI. I’d rather not get into a huge discussion about our nation’s health-care system, all I know is something has to change. Damn HMO’s!

But basically, the doc said the MRI will show probably either one of two things: either a pulled tibialous anterior OR a stress fracture. If it’s the first, then it’s just anti-inflammatories and some rehab. However, if it’s the second, then it means being put in a boot for 6 weeks: no running and probably no cycling. :-(

I’ll let you know what happens.

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