Runners knee

LaurenCampbell2015

I have had runners knee now for a few months done the normal get professional help, but has anyone else tried any exercises routines etc that helped speed things up abit

ndj1979

I had that once....I took ibuprofen , iced my knee, and stayed off it for about a week and then it was fun...if you have had it for a few months seems there may be more going on ...what did the sports dr say?

LaurenCampbell2015

The ciro said I need insoles for my arches which Iv had for 4 weeks and the physio said hmmm its runners knee due to muscle imbalance I do use roller and do there exercises given etc but it's very strange I can't lunge or run on road but can do leg press, leg curl etc cycling and tread mill running depends sometimes helps sometimes doesn't

ElizabethOakes2

I was just told I had this yesterday (I started a thread earlier today.) Someone recommended the ARC Trainer so I'll have to see if my gym has one.

I've been referred to phys therapy, so we'll see what my PT has to say. I just hope this isn't like my back, where I did months and months of physical therapy, and chiropractic, and got worse and worse until both my chiro and my PT wrote letters to my doctor saying they'd done all they could and he FINALLY ordered imaging. I was literally crippled before I got surgery (and it was far worse than the MRI showed- my surgeon spent an hour just picking bone splinters out of my muscles and tendons) I warned my gp yesterday that if three weeks of PT didn't make a difference, he was going to refer me to an ortho.

RoxieDawn

I had it once last year. I iced it, put heat on it, put bengay on it and stopped running for about 8 days. I wore one of those soft compression braces and started walking after 8 days. Kept wearing that brace until I got back into running two weeks later. If you cannot rehab it by RICE and home rehab, compression etc.. then time to see the doc.

Since it is not considered acute trauma (did not take a blow to b a fall etc..) then it sounds chronic in nature as in overuse, over stretch or tearing of ligament or tendon.

NikolaosKey

From Elizabeth post: Run slow in soft ground but remember the time you feel even a tiny pain stop and start walking. Dont run again the same day. Also use a knee sleeve it helps. Put hot surface before running and ice after. Ice is the alpha and omega here. Apply for 20 min for every 4-5 hrs. Also check this isometric exersices to tone muscles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovzlYNxL6TM

streamgirl

Also make sure you check your IT band. I had a Dr and a PT tell me I had knee problems and would just have to live with them, until my massage therapist told me that I needed to foam roll. Went away within a few days!!

GiddyupTim

I would just like to second the IT band suggestion.