Knee friendly FT

[Frito]

I'd push with the heels on the pedals here, but not do this if you can sense any irritation to your knee.

That foam roller can be used to stretch the gluteus medius, as Doc D notes below and, everyone's favorite, the IT Band.



Could be, but that depend on the person. One possibility here is that you've developed some mist racking of the patella (you knee cap isn't traveling over the femur as it should) and the pain in causing a vicious circle of mis-tracking, during day to activities as as well as training.

There are all sorts of subtle things that might have created a perfect storm, including a stretched retinaculum or development of plica syndrome (but I'd expect a clicking - Runtime Error

I'd be careful to keep from kneeling on that knee (if you happen to do that at work?...)



I'm not buying the age card here - You're like 30, right?...

Now, if you've been powerlifting at an elite level for 15 years, then maybe...


Sure!


Thanks for chiming in, Doc.

A sports massage therapist could also check you for a leg length discrepancy, Frito.

(WRT the bolded, this would fit with the vicious cycle theory. Ff your VMO - tear drop muscle - is not firing well, it might have atrophied and esp. with a tight outer thigh compartment, your patella might be tracking laterally. Can you feel that your vastus medialis is getting a good pump and getting sore when training legs?... )

-S

I did bicycle and stretch for 20 minutes today, pain free.
But walking up and down the stairs a lot today and that do hurt.

I have always been careful with kneeling down, learned that when I was a mechanic from and older guy who developed knee problems from it.
So I rarely do it and try to always use a pad if I do for longer periods.

But honestly I doubt my work is causing me the problems, over the past 16 days offshore I worked a total of 12 hours and that´s quite normal for me. So most of the day is sitting with the computer or watching movies in the sofa.

Yeah only 30 years old and been to gym only 10 of those.

I will get an appointment with the sports massage therapist I know and see what he can do. He did save my lower back last time.

Yeah that´s the part of the muscle I really feel when I work out.

I have one thing I have left out because I didn´t think it was important, but I might better write it here, maybe that can be part of the problem.

Sometimes and I can´t find a pattern here, my right hip/glute/quad is in pain when I´m walking an laying down, it cause me to limp around.
Sometimes it´s come during my break from training legs and sometime I comes after leg training, no idea what it is and can´t find the course of it. But maybe because of that I somehow compensate and put more pressure on the left knee (the knee I have problems with)?