Supplements for joint pain from running

Tomcat825

Tomcat825

Tomcat825

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Been doing 2 sessions a day for fitness atm to be able to pass my RAF fitness test.
Trouble is, I've been getting pains in my hips (the leg joint inside the hip tbh) as well as Shin splints (these i've been to physio about and he's basically told me to push through it for the test, then complete rest). Basically put, I want to know if there are any supplements that I can take to help ease these pains at all (mainly the joint pain).

Sometimes it hurts during running, others it hurts after running...

I've been taking Ibuprofen and Anadin Joint Painkillers, but wanting to back off them a bit.

I heard Cod Liver Oil is supposed to be fairly good?
 
lolphysios (frequently, anyway)

You're getting pain because your gait is poor. Sounds like you're heal striking, stop this!

There is a fix for shin splits in the mobility thread, search for it.
 
Heel striking? I have no idea what that is aside from the obvious, but I wouldn't have thought there was any other way of running other than strike with your heel?
 
icecold said:
lolphysios (frequently, anyway)

You're getting pain because your gait is poor. Sounds like you're heal striking, stop this!

There is a fix for shin splits in the mobility thread, search for it.
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This is possible but entirely speculation. You may well have poor lower limb biomechanics but again it is impossible to establish that from the OP. I would say that if you are doing two sessions (?running) per day then its simply a case of overtraining. Overtraining is also one of the causes of "shin splints" but it depends on whether its medial tibial stress syndrome or exertional compartment syndrome and what caused it in the first place.
And the jury is still out on heel strike running, take a look at Haile Gebrselassie, who runs using both heel and forefoot strike techniques.
 
no one has even suggested that he may be running with the wrong type of running shoes i.e. Supinator, Nuetral or Over Pronator?

If you are an over pronator, for example, and don't have the correct shoes, your feet may be rolling inwards too much causing hip rotation. This will lead to pain in the hips but will also put extra strain on the calves and tendons of the lower legs which can cause shin splints.

I got rid of shin splints by getting a proper fitted pair of shoes. The splints vanished overnight just with this.

Are you running in just normal trainers or did you get your running gait looked at and get a proper fitted pair of shoes?
 
...or fix your dysfunction so you don't need to compensate with different trainers. If you pronate you're going to have other problems. Bad mechanics are bad mechanics.
 
icecold said:
...or fix your dysfunction so you don't need to compensate with different trainers. If you pronate you're going to have other problems. Bad mechanics are bad mechanics.
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You are again presuming he has poor biomechanics which there is no evidence for from the OP. There are many other causes/risk factors for 'shin splints'. No matter how perfect your biomechanics are. Doing things like rapidly increasing milage/frequency of training, adding more hills to training, running on a camber, not having adequate rest between runs, incorrect footwear etc. etc. are all known risk factors/causes of MTSS, ECS and tibial stress fractures [what people refer to as 'shin splints']
Yes biomechanics are massively significant in terms of causes of injury but are only a small part of the whole picture.
 
You're right, of course.

BUT, pain IS a very reliable proxy for bad mechanics, and some of the alternative causes you list (increased training frequency) will have bad mechanics as the root cause. Therefore, in spite of the other possibilities (which you can largely just remove from the training), it's always better to assume there is a problem with mechanics. If a problem here goes ignored it could end badly, and mechanics are relatively easy to fix compared to blown out hips and knees.

For your reading/viewing pleasure (not just about running):
http://www.mobilitywod.com/2011/09/...ody-just-keeps-putting-up-with-your-crap.html
 
@ op

get your running technique checked out
I tell you one thing if you are injured you will begin to walk/run incorrectly
might sound silly but same thing happened to me and my walk was very incorrect and kept causing an impingement on my ankles

so I learned how to walk again! lol good luck
 
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