Physiotherapy

Keeping injury-free is really important now. I've only got a couple of months until Loch Ness and my training is going well. I'm conscious of a couple of niggly issues though, one of which I felt was serious enough to be checked by a physio. I went to SPACE on Dalry Road, just up the road from Run and Become and my physio, Matt, diagnosed an inflammation of a muscle (I think) and the bursa, just below my back side. It had felt sore from about 8 or 10 miles in to a long run. I turns out that I have a slightly mis-aligned pelvis (on my right side) and weak gluteus muscles, which has caused the muscles (don't ask me their name) to get inflamed. They are stabilisation muscles which means that I can continue running but I have a programme to follow now to fix the problem. I have exercises to strengthen my glute muscles and I have to take anti-inflammatories 3 times a day. On top of that I have to keep going back to the physio to allow him to straighten my pelvis (which bloody hurts). I'm glad I visited them, even though the problem seemed small. If I hadn't, there's a good chance I'd have done some real damage by training through the pain.