Hi guys, only just noticed the forum recently and thought I'd join, so hello to you all!
I will have been in Thailand two weeks come Friday, here for a two month stint of training. Prior to this I've trained Muay Thai 1.5-3 hours a week for about 8 months (plus weights twice a week and the occasional run). Out here I've therefore tried to hold back with the volume of training in order to build up to (hopefully) twice a day, six days a week.
However on Saturday at training I felt a sharp twinge on my left achilles heal as I was kneeing and teeping the bag. Wasn't too concerned, had this briefly around a year ago due to my work and a lack of stretching. A trip to the physio back then had the tight calf muscle loosened out and the pain had gone within a few days. I therefore spent Sunday trying to roll out my calves using a deodorant can along with lots of stretching. However the pain seemed to spread to the sides of my foot and included a popping sensation. I went for a massage on Monday morning which didn't really help and ended up missing training then as well as yesterday due to the lingering pain on just the outside of my foot (the achilles and inside felt fine by then). The pain on the outside was below and behind the boney bit and was when walking for example. I then found that rolling the outside of my lower leg seemed to help, a lot.
This morning the pain had pretty much gone as well as most of the popping so after strapping the foot with kinesiology tape and donning an anklet for compression I decided to train this afternoon. It felt fine until half way through the session when I pivoted to kick whilst training pads and felt a small pop on the outside of the foot, followed by not so much as pain but just a bit of a discomfort. I finished off the session and it was whilst cooling down with some stretching that a sharp shooting pain started up. This seems to have subsided a bit now but it's clear that my foot definitely needs some attention, maybe it was a bad move going along today after all?
Although the random sharp pain remains I seem to be okay walking as well as raising up on to my toes. Not too sure what I've done but there's no swelling, although the side of my left leg etc feels tight and hard and the pain occasionally travels up in to the leg. Pointing my toes outwards also has a limited range of motion compared to the other foot, although I first noticed this a couple of months ago and in hindsight should have investigated it then.
I'm really hoping that it might just be a case of a good massage to the outer leg followed by a couple of days rest might, like last time, free everything up with a quick return to normal. However I think that would be very lucky on my part if that is the case! I should add that I'm hypermobile so I'm not too worried about the popping sensation right now, this seems to come and go with me.
Anyway sorry for the long post, I'm interested to hear your opinions/experiences.
Cheers