"Jim Ford" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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* The air of uk.rec.walking was filled with the delicate perfume * of violets, as Blippie <> descended on a shaft * of golden sunlight, and announced:
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... next day my knee locked up.
Possibly more likely to be a cartilage problem rather than a ligament probloem in this case.
There's a cresent shaped pillow of cartilage in the knee that can
rupture
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causing this sort of pain (i.e. pain when descending - leg straight and bearing weight - but otherwise not too painful, just stiff) and usually
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always), if there is a lot of swelling, causing the joint to lock.
The odd thing about when I had this sort of knee trouble, was that it only hurt when going downhill and then only as the weight came _off_ the joint, not when the load went on. I still can't figure out what could have been going on!
That sounds a little like the problem I had, which was the fat pad behind the patella was being squeezed and nipped when the leg fully straightened on down hills. My doc diagnosed this by pumping in pain killer and then getting me to walk enough to bring the problem on - I had no problems at all and the knee felt great. This was considered proof and so I had a steroid injection to try and shrink the fat pad. This seemed to work, although I have had different knee problems since then.
I went to a physio today on referral from my GP because of my left knee being very creaky. It is fine to walk on but painful to kneel or stand up with. (Remember I walked over the Long Mynd in November? I did the walking with no problems but the day before I had trouble kneeling down to pick up a bag).
We had a good chat after an examination and she gave me some exercises to do to stretch my muscles and get things moving properly. The basic diagnosis is of general wear and tear with the creaky popping noises being caused by rubbing debris from my bones and ligaments, this buildup being why it is so painful.
I've got to give 4-6 weeks to allow the exercises to have any effect, if it still hurts I'll be back to the GP for another referral to an orthopaedic specialist at my hospital.
Good luck with the exercises. Did she recommend cycling? I have no idea if it helps joints but I find it good for keeping my muscle strength up between walks uphill.
<[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Good luck with the exercises. Did she recommend cycling? I have no idea if it helps joints but I find it good for keeping my muscle strength up between walks uphill.
Yep, cycling, walking(!), swimming, yoga and tai-chi were all mentioned. The last two were mainly for getting my muscles to be more flexible but it's gonna be tricky finding an exercise class near me that can let me in. The main perk of working in a hospital is that I can get onto any surgery list quickly(!), I just hope they'll let me go to a daytime yoga class if that's all I can get into.
On 2 Jan 2005 15:27:51 -0800, [email hidden] wrote:
| On two consecutive trips now my walking partner has suffered extreme | pain near his left knee (internal but near the offside) very soon after | starting the descent off the mountain. No problems going uphill | however. Once started the pain doesn't go away even when on flat | ground. He finds it subsides slightly if he walks with his leg twisted | but that begins to cause other problems. He's going to see a doctor or | physio about it as soon as he can after the holidays are finished. I | hope he gets successful treatment as otherwise hill climbs, especially | Munros, will be out of the question. I'm not looking for specific | medical advice, but has anyone here suffered similar problems and if so | what did you have to do to cure it? Could this be related to just | weight and fitness or could it be something requiring surgery?
Swimming is great for knees. Exercises the muscles Keeps the knee moving. No strain on the knee.
On 10 Jan 2005 02:40:20 -0800, "Chris Gilbert" <[email hidden]> wrote:
| | Dave Fawthrop wrote: | | > Swimming is great for knees. | > Exercises the muscles | > Keeps the knee moving. | > No strain on the knee. | | Breast stroke kick places a lot of sideways pressure on the knee | and should be avoided while recuperating from an injury.
