Pain below knew

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:39:02 GMT, vze1r2ht <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I have pain below the knee and sometimes on the left side of the knee.

When I stand up it feels weird like it's not strong or something.

Also when I run 2.5 miles+, the back of the knee kinda locks up. It's
like I cannot use the leg
to push off the floor and run and it causes me to stop and walk.

But the locking up maybe due to my having huge hip muscles from cycling
alot. I actually feel the
backof the knee muscle tightnening up which causes the lockup.

Congratulations!

"vze1r2ht" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

When I stand up it feels weird like it's not strong or something.

I've read that can be a symptom of a weakened ACL ligament. You can get a
partial tear there which can cause all kinds of symptoms.

If I were you, and with your symptoms, I'd want to get it MRI'd, but I
would not jump into surgery.

Do not let the doc do the standard test for torn meniscus (twisting the foot
with knee bent then moving the knee joint in abnormal ways). That can
reinjure a healing part, imo.

-- Dan