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  1. Moorwalker

    It Is Normal For Feet and Knees to Become Sore

    Ligaments and joints take a lot longer than muscles to strengthen and adapt, and longer to recover if you damage them. That's why being active well before you go is a good idea, also building up at the start and not pushing too hard initially. Many people don't realise that walking every day is...
  2. Moorwalker

    Caution of Ignoring "Listen to your body" rule

    I strongly suspect that many of the foot and leg problems that people experience is because they try to do too much, too soon. The commonly quoted 33 days requires a lot of walking and unless you are a regular long distance walker it may well cause injuries. It takes at least 3 months for...
  3. Moorwalker

    To the Breast Cancer Survivors...

    Thanks for the hug. I don't know if walking the distance is going to be possible again. I'd love to do the Ingles but the distances between stops can be quite big and I've never been an enthusiast for trekking huge distances in a day, I'm a slow ambler who likes to look at things along the way.
  4. Moorwalker

    To the Breast Cancer Survivors...

    I am also a breast cancer survivor - for the moment since mine has spread to my bones, has been deemed terminal, and the targeted therapy didn't work. I'm currently on oral chemo, 2 weeks on, 1 off, and it is utterly vile because I feel sick and exhausted all of the time. It isn't my front that...
  5. Moorwalker

    Distinguishing “Normal Pain” from Potential Injury

    You are walking double the distance that you are accustomed to day after day, it's no wonder that your feet and potentially other parts are hurting. There are other possible causes for foot pain but over-use combined with shoes or footbeds that aren't perfect is the most likely cause. It takes...
  6. Moorwalker

    Preventing Black Toe ?

    The bruising at the base of the nail bed there shows clearly that your toes were bumping the front of your shoes, and probably that your nails had been allowed to grow too long.
  7. Moorwalker

    Preventing Black Toe ?

    Bruised toenails happen for several reasons but they nearly all come down to your toe bumping against the front of the shoe or else pressure from the top of the shoe. First of all, keep your toenails clipped properly, ask a podiatrist or someone experienced in doing pedicures to show you, and...
  8. Moorwalker

    To Those of you with New Hips

    The rehab exercises are critical. It hurts and it's hard work but the better you stick to the rehab programme the better final result you get. A friend who is a physiotherapist says that shse can tell right from the start who will get a good result and who won't by the way they work or don't at...
  9. Moorwalker

    To Those of you with New Hips

    Knees take a lot longer than hips to come properly right unfortunately. Thre is a lot more damage done to the ligaments and it's those which take the time to repair and get back to good strength. Mine as functional around 6 months afterwards, but it took a year before it really felt good. Do the...
  10. Moorwalker

    Yet another health threat to worry about

    Indeed. And because those diseases have been very rare for some time people have forgotten just how nasty they can be. I'm at the front of the queue for vaccines when I go travelling, and I always get my flu shot. That amuses my doctor because I hate needles so she always knows if I'm intending...
  11. Moorwalker

    Yet another health threat to worry about

    An assortment of diseases carried and transmitted by mosquitoes has always been around. To some extent we are now noticing them because Covid 19 has made people aware that modern medicine cannot cure everything. We in the West are accustomed to being able to get vaccines to protect us against...
  12. Moorwalker

    Hep A/B vaccination

    The armed services need cover for things that most of us won't encounter though, because they may be shipped off to the back end of wherever at short notice. You don't need yellow fever in Europe, I got it when I was heading to Brazil. The old version of the Anthrax vaccine is one of the few...
  13. Moorwalker

    Hep A/B vaccination

    You don't need to be in "undeveloped" countries to be exposed to a wide range of potential diseases. The WHO recommend the following vaccinations for Spain: Hepatitis A & B, meningitis, polio, measles, mumps & rubella (usually as a single MMR shot), tetanus, diphtheria & pertussis (usually as...
  14. Moorwalker

    Drink tap water between Burgos and Leon?

    Legionella is more likely to come from something like a contaminated shower head, because the main mode of transmission is by breathing in infected water droplets. It's not impossible to catch it from drinking, but less likely.
  15. Moorwalker

    Drink tap water between Burgos and Leon?

    I'd be concerned about using taps in a rest room more than taking water from a fountain. They are very likely to be contaminated, not least by people who have been to the toilet and then touched the taps with their hands before washing.
  16. Moorwalker

    Drink tap water between Burgos and Leon?

    I wonder if it's confirmation bias? People only reporting stomach problems from that area because that's the area they have heard about? You would need statistics from all the way along to see whether there is a genuine problem there. It would be interesting to do that but it isn't an easy task...
  17. Moorwalker

    Walking after knee replacement

    I'm laughing now because I took in a book of Dartmoor walks. My surgeon told me that he loved it when people made good use of his handiwork and to send him a postcard if I went anywhere intresting.
  18. Moorwalker

    Walking after knee replacement

    Mine calls herself a physio-terrorist. But you're absolutely right, for knees it really matters that you do the exercises. Mine is brilliant and I have almost normal bend, but an aquaintance who complained about how much it hurt and didn't do the exercises still uses a stick and tells everyone...
  19. Moorwalker

    Walking after knee replacement

    It takes a fair bit of time for things to heal and settle completely but there is no reason at all why you souldn't be able to walk your Camino. I reckon it took about 18 months before everything felt completely right again after my knee replacement, but I now trample up mountains perfectly...
  20. Moorwalker

    Heat Wave Electrolytes

    The salt is the point of the drink, it's intended to replace lost salts and water. If you are sweating heavily you can be losing quite a bit of salt, some people sweat out more than others. Amateur endurance athletes occasionally run into problems that way if they aren't aware of it, they keep...

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