that you do not have a stress fracture from overuse that can also cause pain when running. Neuromas can be treated with wider running shoes, not walking barefoot, anti-inflammatory medications, or an injection. Your hip issue may be an ITB syndrome. This is caused by a muscle that runs from the pelvis to the outside of your lower leg being tight and rubbing on the bone on the outside of your hip. This is treated with rehab to improve your flexibility. Both conditions should be seen by an orthopedic surgeon to make sure it is safe to keep training and also to get yourself better so you can enjoy the racee was on a run practice, trotting against the traffic flow when a bike skidded on gravel along the edge of the road and knocked him down, he recalls. The biker and the pillion also fell. A few fellow runners took him to hospital, where he was administered sutures for injury to the mouth and chin. He also sustained injury to the legs and hand, besides a fracture to the right wrist. “Thankfully, no surgery was required,” he says. “People told me that a car had stopped inches away from where I lay unconscious on the road.”
The Berlin marathon plan had to be dropped as he recuperated in the hospital. His foreign trip, which was to include Romania and Peru, was called off. Last month, he was to run the half marathon in Torino, Italy, but this too had to be shelved as he limped back to normalcy after the accident. Currently, he is undergoing physiotherapy for an injury to the right wrist. His spirits may have been a bit down, but the mind was not ready to give up.