Fitness center
It was now 2011, and I hadn’t done any sport for several months. I began to get concerned about my up-coming marathon in China. Would I have got over my injuries and would I be able to manage the marathon in purely physical terms without training? I started going to a fitness centre to do spinning, aka indoor cycling, and weight training.
At the same time as physiotherapy, I also went to craniosacral therapy. I couldn’t just sit there doing nothing and had to do what I could to get myself ready for my spring classic.
Sports physician
The treatment given by my otherwise excellent therapists didn’t work in this instance, so I sought alternatives. I found a sports clinic, the owner of which was the physician of the Lyngby Boldklub football team. He ascertained that I had damaged the sinew at the point where it attaches to the bone. He explained that it wasn’t jogger’s heel (Plantar fasciitis) although it was related.
There most certainly was hope, and he assured me that I would run again.
This sports physician also gave me shockwave therapy, but his equipment was much more powerful and this time the treatment hurt a bit. The doctor also recommended that I buy new individually designed inserts for my running shoes, which I then ordered. For a while, I thought it was helping, but then the problem returned. After seven treatments, the doctor and I agreed that this
was not the right treatment for me.
Acupuncture
While I was receiving shockwave treatment, I also consulted a Chinese doctor who gave me acupuncture and suggested some changes to my diet. Although the heel injury hadn’t cleared up, I attended her clinic for the most part of a year and found that her treatments were good for my general well-being.
