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The Miracle Cure : Complete Running Network

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Matt Scherer   Mar 2nd 2008, 10:14pm
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Written by Mike Antonucci
February 29, 2008 |

ankle.jpgRunners can entertain each other for hours talking about the symptoms and effects of various leg injuries and ailments. Useful treatments, however, tend to amount to one thing: RICE.

For the newbies out there, RICE stands for Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation. It’s my experience that relatively few injuries require compression and elevation, so I made up my own acronym: AIR, which stands for Anti-inflammatories, Ice and Rest, usually in that order. I don’t have much hope it will catch on, or I would put one of those copyright or trademark thingies next to it.

A check of the Web shows an amazing number of ailments that are supposed to be treated with AIR: stress fractures, shin splints, compartment syndrome, hamstring tears, patellafemoral syndrome, and my favorite, tendonitis.

Read the full article at: completerunning.com
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