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- From: hduncan@cs.ucsd.edu (Hal Duncan)
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Knee problem... sound familiar?
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 03:04:00 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, UC San Diego
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- I just started running again in September after several years of working
- on my couch potato impersonation. I started with 1.5 miles at 9 per a
- couple of times a week, and worked up to 4.5 miles at 8.5 per three or
- four times a week by mid-November. This, by the way, is the farthest
- I've _ever_ been able to run consistently.
-
- Then I sprained my ankle playing racquetball. I let it heal about 1.5
- weeks (until it didn't feel tender to walk on, basically) and then went
- running again. Either that first run or the one following (I don't
- remember which), I finished the run fine but woke up the next day with
- a great deal of pain in the same-side knee as the sprain (specifically,
- in the tendon on the outside of the patella and especially at the lower
- connection to the femur). I was unable to climb stairs for three or
- four days and had trouble walking.
-
- Since then, I have gone for a total of three or four short, slow runs,
- hoping that this would "work itself out." What has happened is the pain
- hit sooner each run and lasted shorter... although it's now been two
- weeks since I've run at all and I still can't do more than two or three
- flights of stairs before my knee "gives out." Also, my ankle is still
- tender when I put resistance on it at a certain angle.
-
- I stretch before every run. I run my first mile slow and walk about a
- mile after the run. I do have kind of a funky stride -- my feet land
- nearly on a straight line ("Indian style"); I have no idea if this is
- related. I also have no idea if the ankle sprain is related. I once
- had Osgood Schlatter's in the same knee, but it is supposedly completely
- healed. I have also had chondromalacia in the other knee, which felt
- similar but did not involve any pain in the outer tendon.
-
- Anyways, I'm going to see a doctor in a week or so. I was just hoping
- that this would sound familiar to someone so that I would have a possibility
- to throw at the doctor.
-
-
- Hal
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