Big big needles
I'm seeing the doctor tomorrow to get a proper diagnosis for my Compartment Syndrome.
This has been bothering ever since the end of boot camp in 2003, and finally something is being done about it.
Basically, whenever I engage in activity such as fast walking, basketball, ultimate frisbee, military humps or sometimes jogging, my anterior tibialis muscles swell a little too much for their compartments (imagine the skin on a sausage). It really really hurts when it gets like this, and it pretty much increases with every step, although it's never been enough to physically make me stop. This means when I am on a 10-mile hump in the field with 70 lbs of gear I can't let myself fall out - because I can still go on. Ow.
There's a little blurb & pic for you. Tomorrow morning, the doctor will be sticking my legs with a pressure gauge before and after I engage in physical activity to see just how bad it is.
It'll be something like this:
The only real treatment is to have surgery, which will likely be something like this:
Kind of scary, yeah, but at least I won't look like
This has been bothering ever since the end of boot camp in 2003, and finally something is being done about it.
Basically, whenever I engage in activity such as fast walking, basketball, ultimate frisbee, military humps or sometimes jogging, my anterior tibialis muscles swell a little too much for their compartments (imagine the skin on a sausage). It really really hurts when it gets like this, and it pretty much increases with every step, although it's never been enough to physically make me stop. This means when I am on a 10-mile hump in the field with 70 lbs of gear I can't let myself fall out - because I can still go on. Ow.
There's a little blurb & pic for you. Tomorrow morning, the doctor will be sticking my legs with a pressure gauge before and after I engage in physical activity to see just how bad it is.
It'll be something like this:
The only real treatment is to have surgery, which will likely be something like this:
Kind of scary, yeah, but at least I won't look like