Pain below right knee

its called a stress fracture....an mri will let you know for sure....don't run....take it from
me...been there done that. "matt m" <sorry_I_dont_re@d_it.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a problem where after around 5-10 minutes of running, I get this fairly sharp pain just
below my right knee. Sometimes it causes me to

slow

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down and walk for a few minutes and others I can bear it, then after a minute or two it subsides
and I can carry on with the rest of my run with

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pain at all.

My initial thought was shin splints, however I thought that this gets progressively worse as you
run. Also, I'm not in pain at any other time, its just after those first 5-10 minutes and it goes
away as quickly as it comes on.

As a bit of background information; I've been running sporadically for a couple of years now,
initially it was outdoors but as last winter creeped in, so did I. So for the past 6 months, I've
been using a treadmill at my local gym. At the moment I run just a few miles about 3 - 4 times a
week, just to keep myself ticking over before I get back outside again.

Any thoughts as to what this might be?

Thanks in adavance,

Matt