Not sure if there is an injury thread already, but wondering if anyone here has fought through a pulled/strained calf muscle? I strained mine over a month ago and can't seem to move past it. I rested, iced, physical therapied and even after doing this routine for 5 weeks i still can't push for more than 15 minutes before the strain comes back
Anyone been through this? Wondering how long it took to heal and what you did to recover from it?
First, I'm sorry to hear you too have this. You might want to rest more than 5 weeks, let me share my experience with a strained calf muscle.
It was spring 2019, first dry days after winter here where I live. I was so stoked to skate that set up a cruiser for groceries, pushed uphill in +5C, right out from my door, without any warm-ups. I was 42 at the time, and this was a bad mistake. After few days of grocery runs (I deliberately did it every day just for fun), pushing leg calf started acting up. I did not listen to my body, and soon it was way too late. Ended up in ibuprofen loop where I rested for 3-4 weeks eating painkillers and then tried to skate again, just to get the pain back immediately. This kept repeating the whole summer, until August, when I landed a heelflip over a corner full body weight dropping on my back foot calf. Probably tore it, immediately fell down yelling from pain. No walking properly for 2 weeks, decided to close the season there. Next spring I was scared, as I couldn't even run more than 3km without getting some feeling in the calf. Stayed in skateparks to avoid pushing as much as possible. Summer 2020 it was ok again.
So, rest carefully, skate transitioned parks if possible to avoid pushing, don't expect too much and have fun. It'll go away but it really takes longer than one could expect. I think I could've saved half a year easily if I'd been more patient.