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Paul Cummings
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"Jim Ford" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> * The air of uk.rec.walking was filled with the delicate perfume
> * of violets, as Blippie <> descended on a shaft
> * of golden sunlight, and announced:
> > >... next day my knee locked up.
> >
> > Possibly more likely to be a cartilage problem rather than a ligament
> > probloem in this case.
> >
> > There's a cresent shaped pillow of cartilage in the knee that can
rupture
> > causing this sort of pain (i.e. pain when descending - leg straight and
> > bearing weight - but otherwise not too painful, just stiff) and usually
(not
> > always), if there is a lot of swelling, causing the joint to lock.
>
> The odd thing about when I had this sort of knee trouble, was that it only
> hurt when going downhill and then only as the weight came _off_ the joint,
> not when the load went on. I still can't figure out what could have been
> going on!
That sounds a little like the problem I had, which was the fat pad behind
the patella was being squeezed and nipped when the leg fully straightened on
down hills. My doc diagnosed this by pumping in pain killer and then
getting me to walk enough to bring the problem on - I had no problems at all
and the knee felt great. This was considered proof and so I had a steroid
injection to try and shrink the fat pad. This seemed to work, although I
have had different knee problems since then.
A good physio can also help with advice too.
Have fun,
Paul
news:[email protected]...
> * The air of uk.rec.walking was filled with the delicate perfume
> * of violets, as Blippie <> descended on a shaft
> * of golden sunlight, and announced:
> > >... next day my knee locked up.
> >
> > Possibly more likely to be a cartilage problem rather than a ligament
> > probloem in this case.
> >
> > There's a cresent shaped pillow of cartilage in the knee that can
rupture
> > causing this sort of pain (i.e. pain when descending - leg straight and
> > bearing weight - but otherwise not too painful, just stiff) and usually
(not
> > always), if there is a lot of swelling, causing the joint to lock.
>
> The odd thing about when I had this sort of knee trouble, was that it only
> hurt when going downhill and then only as the weight came _off_ the joint,
> not when the load went on. I still can't figure out what could have been
> going on!
That sounds a little like the problem I had, which was the fat pad behind
the patella was being squeezed and nipped when the leg fully straightened on
down hills. My doc diagnosed this by pumping in pain killer and then
getting me to walk enough to bring the problem on - I had no problems at all
and the knee felt great. This was considered proof and so I had a steroid
injection to try and shrink the fat pad. This seemed to work, although I
have had different knee problems since then.
A good physio can also help with advice too.
Have fun,
Paul