can anyone help me. i have been suffering from pain on the inside leg part of my knees (does this make sense?). both of them feel swollen and i cant make it up the stairs so well! (im only 33!)have looked on the websites but still confused by the pain..any ideas??
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Good luck!
How many miles a week where you doing before the injury and how many miles a week when the pain started to come on?
How old are your trainers, how many miles on them?
Are you wearing the right trainers for your running style i.e do you know if you badly pronate?
The cause of the injury is more important than the injury itself, knee injuries are often by constant twisting caused by ankle problems...Although the fact that its in both of them makes it sound more like an overtraining/overuse/to much to soon type thing.
Doctors are, in general, utterly shit for diagnosing and giving advice on running injuries - an appointment with an Osteopath is a good bet or a sports Physio.
ive been running for about 4/5 months. im on my second pair of trainers after battling with asics 2090's i am now in their kumo with orthotics as before my feet were terrible!!!- i overpronate badly and i was having all sorts of problems with my shins which now seem to have gone...cycled last week and think this has done some damage......
It could be that the origins of the injury developed when you first started out in the initial stages when you where having other probs, and you have never fully given it a chance to heal, so as you up your work rate its just getting worse -but thats just speculation.
Certainly got to be worth an appointment with an Osteo or a sports physio for the £30 or so you will be glad you did.
Mind you, I am always injured.......
Keen students of the running shoe will spot that I'm in Saucony Stabils. Old pic.
The downside to this is I look a bit of a tool and I've now got shin splints.
ps do you not think its a good look, lots of tape all over your knees?
pps it hurts like hell when you pull it off even with shaved legs!!! (being a girl obviously)
Ps, Do you look like your pic?
i will read your email again and see if i can decipher
The tape things easy. What are you doing woman? Stick it to your leg an inch or so to the outside of your kneecap and pull it across the kneecap itself. The tape will pull the kneecap as far as it will go to the opposite side of your leg and will restrict movement when you run/walk etc.
Actually I've just read my own instructions and I think you might be onto something. I don't understand them myself. Good job i'm not a physio
To be honest you might not have another option if ya cant do it yourself