My word that hurts

[automatic_jon]

I recently signed up to our club's winter training regime, after the first session on Sunday I was expecting a few aches and pains but nothing like what I got. My right knee is excruciating, cycling to hospital yesterday I was nearly in tears by the time I got there. I was considering going in as a patient instead of a student. It seems to be classic retro-patella pain, directly behind the kneecap, radiating up and out laterally, especially when the knee is loaded.

Now I'm pretty sure that this is mostly due to an increase in distance and intensity as well as me compensating for a sore medial hamstring muscle leading to a muscle imbalance in my right leg for most of that ride. The doctor looked confused and uninterested when I saw her this morning but using my boyish good looks, some clinical language and a little bit of arabic to get her on side I walked out with a diclofenac prescription and a referral to the physio.

I was wondering if there's anything that people could recommend to boost the healing process and strengthen the knee. I'm going to try to stay off the bike for as long as I can but I need to get to work and as there are no buses out that way I need to be back on it asap.

 

[accountantpete]

I'd wait until you see what the physio says but you can google things like Super Cissus and Animal Flex.

 

[automatic_jon]

Thanks Pete, I'll wait until next week before I do anything but yeah, some sort of joint supplement sounds like a good plan.

 

[bennydorano]

Jon,

Have a read at this about Bursitis - which I have been diagnosed with - see if it sounds familiar. If it does my treatment has been a Powered (Jacuzzi type) ice bath at a Physio four times a week (and a rub once a week), my swelling of the bursa, although still currently being treated, has come down by 60-70% in 2 weeks.

http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/111/main.html