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Pain: keep going or stop?
A simple rule for mild pain, and the signs that mean stop.
With mild tendon pain, studies on Achilles tendinopathy used a simple rule: pain up to 5 out of 10 while running, gone by the next morning, and not getting worse from week to week.
Stop and get it checked if pain makes you limp or change your stride, is sharp and in one spot on a bone, comes with swelling, appears at rest or at night, or grows as you run.
This is general information, not a diagnosis. When in doubt, a physiotherapist or sports doctor.
Mild and settling: adjust. Sharp, limping or growing: stop.
Quick check .
Which of these is a sign to stop?
Also: sharp bone pain, swelling, pain at rest or pain that grows.