Hi,

I am currently training for the London Marathon this year and recently i have been starting to
experience an aching pain in my right knee, I am continueing running as it doesn't cause me any
problems when on the roads. The only times it seems to cause me pain is when i am walking, mainly
downhill but often on flat surfaces too. -My training is always along a pavement or similar surface
-I have been training mostly every other day since the start of January, slowly increasing to most
days about 30-90mins run on different occasions. -I have brought a pair of running shoes on the
advice from the marathon store but only a few days after i experienced the pain.

There is no swelling around the knee and doesn't cause any pain when i apply pressure
around the knee.

I was curious to find out if anyone else has experienced this problem before and any advice that may
be of some use to me.

Thanks very much. James

In article <c1fpud$5lu$1@athena.ukc.ac.uk>, James Cassim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently training for the London Marathon this year and recently i have been starting to
> experience an aching pain in my right knee, I am continueing running as it doesn't cause me any
> problems when on the roads. The only times it seems to cause me pain is when i am walking, mainly
> downhill but often on flat surfaces too. -My training is always along a pavement or similar
> surface -I have been training mostly every other day since the start of January, slowly increasing
> to most days about 30-90mins run on different occasions. -I have brought a pair of running shoes
> on the advice from the marathon store but only a few days after i experienced the pain.
>
> There is no swelling around the knee and doesn't cause any pain when i apply pressure around
> the knee.
>
> I was curious to find out if anyone else has experienced this problem before and any advice that
> may be of some use to me.

It may help if you say what part of the knee is hurting (the bottom ? top ? inside ? outside ?)

I think a lot of people have experienced knee injuries. Running on pavement without proper running
shoes will injure all but the most gifted runner. Has the pain gotten any better since you purchased
the new shoes, or is it too early to tell ?

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

> I am currently training for the London Marathon this year and recently i have been starting to
> experience an aching pain in my right knee, I am continueing running as it doesn't cause me any
> problems when on the roads. The only times it seems to cause me pain is when i am walking, mainly
> downhill but often on flat surfaces too. -My training is always along a pavement or similar
> surface -I have been training mostly every other day since the start of January, slowly increasing
> to most days about 30-90mins run on different occasions. -I have brought a pair of running shoes
> on the advice from the marathon store but only a few days after i experienced the pain.
>
> There is no swelling around the knee and doesn't cause any pain when i
apply
> pressure around the knee.
>
> I was curious to find out if anyone else has experienced this problem
before
> and any advice that may be of some use to me.
>
Usual suspects:

Wear injury, could be from the accumulation of weeks of running, so just changing shoes may not
provide immediate relief.

Check out your form, esp. overstriding, or overstriding when tired.

Try some short-arc squats using one leg, to build up the inner quad, roll/massage quads. Taping or a
strap can sometimes provide immediate relief from runner's knee.

Learn about your particular biomechanics: stride, bounce, slap, footstrike, knee flex, cadence, foot
motion, ..., and how to select shoes that compensate.

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:17:32 -0000, "James Cassim" <rjc9@ukc.ac.uk>
wrote:

>I was curious to find out if anyone else has experienced this problem before

No. Knee pain is completely unheard of in runners. You are unique.

>and any advice that may be of some use to me.

Read the faq, shout 'Ozzie' or learn to use google.

>Thanks very much.

James, it was my pleasure.

> I am currently training for the London Marathon this year and recently i have been starting to
> experience an aching pain in my right knee, I am continueing running as it doesn't cause me any
> problems when on the roads.

I used to have knee problem that seemed to go away during running. I was told that the heat
generated from running might have masked the pain. That didn't mean that the problem was not there;
the problem was simply hidden temporarily. At the end, my knee problem got very bad after "running
through the pain" for so long (around half a year). That was so bad that I could not run through the
pain any more. I needed to have a knee surgery to clear thing up.

Turned out the source of my knee problem are the combination of these:
- Flat feet (my feet were not flat before; somehow they became flat around that time).
- Muscle imbalance (my quads were too weak, and my hamstrings were too strong).
- Hamstrings were too tight (I didn't stretch before or after running).

I have no idea which one in this list was the true cause of my knee problem. That depends on which
doctor that I talked to. Oh well...

You may need to see a knee doctor to check thing up. This is much cheaper than having a surgery,
and costs much less down time than post-op. If money is a real concern, you may want to rest a
couple weeks and see if the problem may go away. By the way, I am not a doctor, and this is not a
medical advice.

Good luck, and please don't "run through the pain".

Jay Chan