Knee'd to know, update
Ok, so last Sunday I did the 100mile elephant rock ride. Again a good time minus the knee pain I had towards the end after mile 60.
This week I’ve been taking it easy and babying the crap out of the knee. A forced taper you can say. On Wednesday I visited the PT next to our office and he was kind enough to look me over for no charge (avid cyclist himself). He informed me that I had hit my knee on the leg of the table just right and with all the working out that I’ve been doing it just compounded the sensitiveness of the area. So the diagnosis is that I’ve severely bruised the cartilage behind the knee cap. The inflammation in the area is also causing my meniscus to become aggravated too.
So doctors order: Rest the knee, meaning don’t do anything stupid such as running for a week and a half. Spin in a small chain ring on trainer and everyone’s favorite workout, Auga-jog! So I haven’t done a lot this week but ride my bike twice and swam. I’m headed out to swim and do some aqua-jogging here in a little while. I must say that having followed orders and keeping my knee up and iced as much as possible has been paying off. Not to mention taking ibuprofen too (not that I like taking pills/drugs) but it does help with the inflammation and irritation. From a week ago I’d say that the knee is now about 85%-89%. Why not 90%, why not. It’s like moving up in an age group during race season and I’m not quite there yet for the recovery. I think that if I hadn’t turned 30 on Wednesday I may feel like its 90% by now.
The spin today on the trainer on a pain scale of 1-10 (10 being the worst) felt like a 3-4. It was more annoying then painful. I could feel a slight irritation. Unlike last Sunday when I could barely push-down on the pedals with out wanting to grind my teeth or cry.
What have we learned from this?
1) My body is not as invincible as I thought.
2) A knee injury is not anything to be stupid about in trying to rush a recovery. Listen to your body and those educated in the field around you.
3) This can be a blessing in order to help me taper and recover for the big day 14 days away from today. Keep icing and doing the exercises the PT has me doing to flush out the inflammation/scaring on the cartilage too.
4) Ice really does make things feel better
Have a great rest of your weekend folks or what’s left of it. I’m off to some work done on the bike and hit the pool for a swim and aqua-jog.
This week I’ve been taking it easy and babying the crap out of the knee. A forced taper you can say. On Wednesday I visited the PT next to our office and he was kind enough to look me over for no charge (avid cyclist himself). He informed me that I had hit my knee on the leg of the table just right and with all the working out that I’ve been doing it just compounded the sensitiveness of the area. So the diagnosis is that I’ve severely bruised the cartilage behind the knee cap. The inflammation in the area is also causing my meniscus to become aggravated too.
So doctors order: Rest the knee, meaning don’t do anything stupid such as running for a week and a half. Spin in a small chain ring on trainer and everyone’s favorite workout, Auga-jog! So I haven’t done a lot this week but ride my bike twice and swam. I’m headed out to swim and do some aqua-jogging here in a little while. I must say that having followed orders and keeping my knee up and iced as much as possible has been paying off. Not to mention taking ibuprofen too (not that I like taking pills/drugs) but it does help with the inflammation and irritation. From a week ago I’d say that the knee is now about 85%-89%. Why not 90%, why not. It’s like moving up in an age group during race season and I’m not quite there yet for the recovery. I think that if I hadn’t turned 30 on Wednesday I may feel like its 90% by now.
The spin today on the trainer on a pain scale of 1-10 (10 being the worst) felt like a 3-4. It was more annoying then painful. I could feel a slight irritation. Unlike last Sunday when I could barely push-down on the pedals with out wanting to grind my teeth or cry.
What have we learned from this?
1) My body is not as invincible as I thought.
2) A knee injury is not anything to be stupid about in trying to rush a recovery. Listen to your body and those educated in the field around you.
3) This can be a blessing in order to help me taper and recover for the big day 14 days away from today. Keep icing and doing the exercises the PT has me doing to flush out the inflammation/scaring on the cartilage too.
4) Ice really does make things feel better
Have a great rest of your weekend folks or what’s left of it. I’m off to some work done on the bike and hit the pool for a swim and aqua-jog.
posted by Jon at 6/10/2007 09:33:00 AM
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