BikNorton wrote:
My left knee has been doing painful things on and off for a few months, to the point it's occasionally interfered with the programmes my trainer has put together; enough she said "you should get that looked at". Not as much as my weird crap feet so, you know, I've done what men do and ignored it hoping it goes away - and hey, usually it mostly has! What's the problem?!
Yesterday was my last session of the year so she amped it up a bit, including turning what would normally be supersets of "squats while holding a weight" and "lunges while holding weights" into a three-way (fnarr) with a 30 second wall-sit.
All three wall-sits were agony - they always are and this was at the end of a tough session, so sure, no problem.
My left knee is fucked today. I can move about slowly and carefully, and anti inflammatory gel helps a lot, but if I sit in an upright position at all my left knee screams the next time I move it. It made getting off the bog "exciting".
I really should have gone to the GP earlier, and probably signed up to the free healthcare through work at some point in the last 5.5 years so I could do some sports physio.
I always resented it, but paying for a physio is straightforward and sometimes they can fix you, or put you on the path to it, with a session. There's always the worry that a physio will keep you coming back time after time, but most of them in my experience seemed to be proud of not doing that.
Equally, to go with existing problems with the back of my knee, I seem to have strained the back of it, such that some days I can't really put weight on it. Or not till its warmed up, or something. And I have no intention of taking the advice above.