Gait analysis reveals I don't pronate. Great. Fantastic. Back to the drawing board.
The chiros think it's one of two things:
I really messed myself up running hard in shoes made for pronators--they correct for a problem I don't have. Or, I'm still sort of altitude sick and cannot heal until I go back down. Still, after a year and a half at 10,000 feet, I'm still doing that high-altitude breathing thing. This could be causing nerve damage because I'm not getting enough oxygen. The second explanation makes sense when we consider that my injury changes by week and we just seem to chase it around my leg, never getting to the cause and never fully getting rid of the pain.
Sooooo.....time for the MRI. I'm going to see a knee specialist. See if he has any other ideas or agrees with the chiros. But mostly I want to see what's going on in there--see if I have any real damage or if there are clues to the cause.
If the cause really is altitude, it's something I'll just have to continue to struggle with until we leave in June.
Bye-bye, marathon.
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:( i'm sorry to hear that! i hope you can put your finger on what's wrong. i hate not knowing why i feel bad (when i feel bad).
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