Exercise in Lockdown
23 April 2020
Musculoskeletal Podiatrist Ms Anne-Marie O'Connor provides some top tips for exercising, particularly running and walking, for everyone experiencing lockdown during Coronavirus.
For most of us, unless you’re in the toilet roll business, we are trying to adjust to life in lockdown. Whether you’re busy working from home, looking after some little ones or are just trying to get through this as best as you can, we all have one thing in common, and that’s extra time on our hands.
Current public health guidance and the government have asked everyone to only leave the house to carry out essential shopping or for local light exercise. Many of us would have been running on softer treadmills in the gym or maybe not running at all, but suddenly faced with only being able to exercise once a day means getting out of the house has become a salvation for many feeling the strain of being cooped up indoors.
Running is the most common sports related injury we see in sports injury clinics, even before Coronavirus lockdown. A growing interest in the nations' love of running and the encouragement of charity challenges means, as a podiatrist, I have seen lots of injured athletes and runners over the years. It’s not just the knees either, any part of the lower limbs and also your back can be injured in the running process, from stress fractures and over used tendons to muscle strains and much more.
