SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Sioux Falls woman qualified for and completed this year’s Boston Marathon. With the help of her doctors, she was able to overcome an injury just weeks before the race.
Heather Tietjen is usually the one caring for patients as a nurse at Sanford Hospital. But last fall, she sought out help for hip pain that was making it hard to train for races, like the Boston Marathon.
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Doctors told her a torn labrum in her hip had been causing inflammation.
“When you think about the elements of your training as far as like nutrition and sleep and recovery, I wasn’t getting the recovery from sleep and I wasn’t getting good workouts in either,” Heather Tietjen said…