Knee Problems

So, my right knee has been all fucked up lately. Feels totally fine while skiing, but afterwards and most of the time I am not skiing it hurts. Mostly right below the kneecap and the left side. No swelling, but sometimes it has a dark bruise and I never bruise.

I had a fall last year where my knee was numb and in pain for the rest of the day and into the night...thought I was fucked...slept on it and by the next day it felt and seemed fine. I have since skied on it over 100 days....


should I be worried about it? Is it just general soreness or do you think I fucked something up and just adapted to it?

gimp central?

unless of course you are a robot and therefore made up of mechanical parts...

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Originally Posted by hucksquaw

gimp central?

unless of course you are a robot and therefore made up of mechanical parts...

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didnt think gimp central saw that much action....and yes, blurred build part of me and salvaged some human parts from a bus crash

If it's under the kneecap and to the left you probably have swelling actually below your kneecap. This is often caused by a patella (kneecap) tracking problem.... chondromalacia or patello femoral syndrome, two different names for the same thing. It's really common among runners and I've been a sufferer of it in the past. It's usually caused from an inbalance in your musles.... usually from the outter quad being stronger than your inner quad. It can be exascerbated by not stretching, which is most athlete's problem.... Stretch your quad and your IT band a ton. If you still have pain after a while, go see a doc. They will put you in physical therapy or suggest excersises to strengthen your inner quad, and they will tell you to stretch stretch stretch. So many injuries can be reduced or prevented by stretching :)

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Originally Posted by mtnbikerskierchick

If it's under the kneecap and to the left you probably have swelling actually below your kneecap. This is often caused by a patella (kneecap) tracking problem.... chondromalacia or patello femoral syndrome, two different names for the same thing. It's really common among runners and I've been a sufferer of it in the past. It's usually caused from an inbalance in your musles.... usually from the outter quad being stronger than your inner quad. It can be exascerbated by not stretching, which is most athlete's problem.... Stretch your quad and your IT band a ton. If you still have pain after a while, go see a doc. They will put you in physical therapy or suggest excersises to strengthen your inner quad, and they will tell you to stretch stretch stretch. So many injuries can be reduced or prevented by stretching :)

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cool

definately from not stretching enough.....played soccer for years and always had flexibility problems, even partially tore my right quad once.....

gotta start stratching more, even though its as if all my muslces are static....they just dont stretch well at all

I read below the kneecap to mean distal I think above she takes it to mean behind. Could be tracking could also be articular cartlidge. Gimp central and paging vinman would be your best bet.

From someone who's dealt with knee pain for the last 5 years, and is currently recovering from arthroscopic surgery, I have only one recommendation:

See the best knee doc you can find.

Seriously, don't fuck around with it. Much better to treat things early on. The only way to get properly diagnosed is to go to a doc. You can't diagnose yourself over the internet, and if you think you can, you are only kidding yourself.

An MRI might be a good idea to see what exactly is happening inside the knee. My wife tore her ACL at the end of last season skiing. The doctors kept insisting that it was not a ACL tear. Now 12 mos later and a couple of re-injuries of the knee due to the misdiagnosis, she finally had an MRI done and sure enough. It's a torn ACL. She was able to ski for most of the season with the torn ACL, but she knew something wasn't quite right.

Anyways, she's waiting now to be scheduled for ACL surgery in a couple months. With rehab being 3-6mos, she may have to sit out some of next season.

Mtn Junkie is right. Go see a knee specialist and get it looked at.

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Originally Posted by mtnbikerskierchick

So many injuries can be reduced or prevented by stretching :)

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This was actually been disproven a couple of years ago. I read about it in a sports medicine journal a few years back, though I still believe stretching helps