- Cut your mileage to a manageable level, or stop and cross train until better, and then make sure you follow the correct protocol for introducing running again (video).
- Perform the ‘IMPORTANT’ and ‘OPTIONAL’ video advice below.
- Perform the ‘ESSENTIAL CHECKS’ videos below, which assess if you need orthotics, how stable your hip muscles are (if they are not, then click here), if there is a difference in your leg lengths, whether you need new shoes, if your core stability is strong enough (if it isn’t, then click here).
- Ensure you check you are running with good form (click here)
- Before following the rehabilitation advice, read our treatment precautions here.
- Twice a day, for 20 minutes at a time, ice the injury, then as it settles do contrast hydrotherapy (see videos below).
- Make sure your running shoes are big enough for you (at least 1/2 a size bigger than your work shoes) and that your shoe laces are not too tightly tied, or try our special lacing procedures (see videos below).
- You may want to place a foam pad over the area of tenderness to take the pressure off.
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen help reduce the pain and inflammation.
Extensor tendinitis
Below you will find advice as to how to deal with this injury – by becoming a member, you can
also access all our video advice.
Remember to have this confirmed by your sports doctor, or sports therapist.
You can diagnose other running injury’s here.
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Attention!
Extensor tendinitis symptoms are similar to those of a march fracture (fracture of one of the long bones in the foot). Ensure you seek advice from your doctor or sports therapist.
