Diagnosed with Compartment Syndrome - tests came back negative!

[pinkpussycat]

Hi physiobob

Should I get more orthotics from the NHS or should I buy the ones you can get from shops that are generic? They sell some called 'Super Feet' at Cotswolds Camping Shop where I live.

I am going to buy some new trainers on Thursday and I'm thinking when they see me running they will probably try and sell me motion control trainers for over pronation - should I not go with these? When I stand for long periods of time without my insoles in my legs ache like mad, so I think they have got so used to them now that without them I end up aching. But it has always crossed my mind that the NHS have given me the wrong ones - but this would be difficult to prove.

I am 5ft5 and weigh 9 stone - so definitely not over weight - although the strain on my legs feels like I weigh loads! When I run I am definitely not a quiet runner - there is lots of slapping of my foot and when I have seen physios in ths NHS, one of them mentioned that I don't have a very good push off motion when I walk. I tried walking differently for over a month - nothing changed. I think because I have been to see so many different people and they have mentioned so many different things that could be wrong from - pronating feet, collapsing ankles, tight hip flexors. I'm just confused about what approach to take. This is why this problem has gone on for so long - I've gone through all the exercises I have been prescribed by the physio, I stretch every day, I don't do anything vigorous anymore and yet my legs ache so much I feel like there is reduced blood flow

I have hypermobility and I can do everything on the Beighton Criteria - not sure whether this could be relevant? I suffer in my upper back because of this as I have a desk job.

Hope someone can fathom this all out