| BREAK THE INJURY CYCLE Some runners always seem ot be in pain. Here's how to keep on injury
from turning into another. By Therese Iknoian
For Keith Brassel, it started wiht shinsplints--a burning ache in
his lower leg that fired up every time he ran. Dertermined to compete in the 1994
Boston Marathon, Brassel kept on running through the pain, figuring it would eventually go
away by itself.
It did. But soon, Brassel developed a series of mysterious
new injuries, one after the other: tendinitis in his ankle; then a persistent ache in the
arch of his foot (a condition know as plantar fasciitis); and finallyk, a sprained ankle
that brought his runing program to a screeching halt.
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