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La Verkin,UT,USA

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Feb 17, 2005

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Post College

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I live in La Verkin, Utah. My wife, Sunny and I have 3 boys and 1 special little girl
I teach 7th grade Utah History at Hurricane Intermediate School and Driver's Education at Millcreek High School.

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Difficult morning.  I was playing basketball this morning and I was going up for a rebound and felt a pop and immediate pain in my left calf muscle.  I'm worried I tore a muscle or did some damage, it was very painful trying to walk to my car and I've been in slow gear all morning now.  I know the comments that will be coming, because I've already got them from my wife.  "You shouldn't be playing basketball."  Anyway, hopefully this is nothing to major.  Bill I know you had some calf issues, what were the symptoms and remedies?

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Comments
From Mike Warren on Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:07:11

And I bet it was Church Ball! Between You, Me and Bill, we could be Snap, Crackle and Pop! Get that sucker better, I was looking forward to you torching Ogden!!

From wildbull on Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:36:30

I had a very similar experience one time running behind Steve in the desert! I felt a pop in the calf. I would recommend you ice it. Then call April to work it out! I used a compression wrap on it for a week. (ACE Bandage) to stablelize it. If you over stretch it you will just aggravate the injury. I would do some calf stretches several times a day

From Wildbull on Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:41:33

Symptoms. Felt like my calf muscle rolled up on me. Had a sharp pain. injury takes a couple of weeks to heal. but you can run on it as long as you use a compression wrap.

From WILDBULL on Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:49:34

A GOOD LINK

http://www.thestretchinghandbook.com/archives/sports-injuries-pt2.php

From Little Bad Legs on Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:53:48

Bummer!!! Get some ice on that thing and hopefully it's nothing serious.

From Steve Hooper on Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 13:36:44

Dustin - Call her ASAP. ICE, ICE, ICE.

Here's April Larsen phone number.

773-7297

From Sasha Pachev on Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:11:02

Well, the remedy, of course, is no basketball for a while. Good thing about non-running external impact injuries is that they usually heel very fast.

From Jon on Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:39:41

Pops are never good. Hope you get this worked out soon.

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