Yeah. Glucosamine and chondroitin do something of the same, and seem very popular with pro sportspeople...
Yeah that's what my joint Dr. (forget the proper name of the specialty) prescribed after my knee surgery (I had the right one scoped)
Yeah. Glucosamine and chondroitin do something of the same, and seem very popular with pro sportspeople...
Sorry to go off topic here, i will delete and start a new topic lf necessary, my wife recently ruptured here achilles tendon which has recovered with specialist help, she has great difficulty putting any pressure on it such as wearing walking boots, is there anything we could do to help this? She used to walk with me a lot in the woods but now she is worried about damaging the tendon again. She jogs and does some circuit training and backs off when the tendon starts to irritate.
I won a dutch army lowe alpine sting in DPM from ebay and tested it out today with nearly 28kg loaded. I did a 1 mile walk with the dog with some short runs too and it felt light as a feather with unbelievably good load distribution to the waist/hips. It uses the same APS3 back system as my civilian lowe alpine appalacian rucksack except the material and construction is more bomb proof and the capacity is smaller which I think is more suitable to my pennine way loadout which is mostly just food. As for the foot I actually felt it twitch for about 5 steps, then it went away for the remaining quarter mile, so must not be 100% healed yet however I've been running, sprinting and doing all sorts for the past few weeks so I've just got to ease in to heavy backpacking kilogram by kilogram.
Going to do a 22 mile walk with the dogs now, just carrying my drink-safe canteen, mind.
Obviously its not healed, and prancing about with 28kg is going to make the lifelong damage even worse, you are deliberately hurting your body, I just don't get why.
...Foot was perfectly fine for all 8 miles, so it's just the pack weight I need to slowly build up on. You imply the injury is a lifelong weakness...?