[Trvlwanderer]

Originally Posted by james_gsx »

My friend thinks I might have a slight case of tendenitis. The flat part that connects my knee cap to my shin hurt like hell the other day after I ran slightly harder than I should have. I was able to rest the last two days, and I'm going to try another run tomorrow and see how it goes.

Are there any stretches I can do for that? I am fairly certain this was one of the injuries that plagued me during soccer.

Jim, place your ankles and knees together and go from small circles to large circles before and after each run. Do thi in both directions.

After many years of rucking and running, this warmup has been key in keeping my knees healthy.

Speaking of that, time for a run!

[johnnycakes78704]

Another item that may help is a knee band or tendon strap
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002EQ3FA

http://www.amazon.com/Knee-Pro-Tec-P...D43W55JYAJ0HDX

Knee stretches: http://www.comgri.com/ouch/knee3.html

Did you time the run? How'd you do? I had some doughnuts in an department supervisor meeting yesterday morning and was hurtin' bad on my ride. Big no no

[james_gsx]

I didn't run this morning, my knee hurt too much and I don't want to push it if I do in fact have tendinitis. I'll try to give it a shot tonight and see how that goes.

[johnnycakes78704]

Stop running. Seriously. Stop running and give your tendons a chance to heal up. How have you been taking care of your body after the run? Do you soak in a tub? After every long ride, I soak in a bath of sea salts, hinoki oil, along with various other oils and minerals. You MUST rest your body as much or more than you exercise it. It must have a chance to regrow the damaged tissue as with exercising, that is what you are doing. Tissue and cells are broken from stress and grow back stronger. As you are working with a shorter time span, you must accelerate that process as much as possible.

[james_gsx]

Yeah, I thought I would give it a shot today and ran for 1 mile. I got a knee brace which actually helped a lot. But now I seriously have a hard time walking. So I'm done running for a while. Could I start biking to help get my body in shape?

And after a run I stretch (obviously) for a long time and my muscles feel great. I then take a hot shower and then I have been icing my knees too.

[johnnycakes78704]

Biking, especially on hills, will certainly increase your cardio and help you get in better shape. And, depending on your foot placement on the pedal, will make your calves much stronger. So start pedaling, and do so with the balls of your feet and the toes.

[james_gsx]

Sounds good. There are a few hills around here that I know off the top of my head that I can bike on. The only problem is the amount of traffic, so I might be better off using one of the many trails around here.

I have a doctors appointment later this afternoon. I couldn't walk this morning and my knees are in constant pain, so my mom did what a mother does. I'm just glad I get all day to rest today.

I have extra long ligaments in my legs, so I am more prone to injury. But I'm not really sure if this has anything to do with that?

[johnnycakes78704]

Well, if you could walk before you picked up running again but can't after, I think that is a pretty clear cut problem.

Use trails. I've had 4 incidents with cars within the past 3 months and none were fun times and just last week programmed my lawyers phone number into my cell as I might need it fairly soon. If you do not know the cycling laws where you are and are uncomfortable with the amount of traffic, certainly stick to the trails. Besides, trails have all the hills whereas in comparison, roads are mostly flat.