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Thoughts on Knee Tendonitis.
Knee Tendonitis and how to discover the location of the injury
Date: 2/18/2009 6:17:47 PM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 5711 times Ren commented on a previous posting of mine....
"Oh looking forward to this blog! I have knee issues that I'm self attending to for now... I seem to have hit on an exercise remedy of weight lifting for my hamstrings, stretching and keeping a few pieces of paper towel in my left shoe to remedy a slight leg length discrepancy."
First I want to commend Ren for being proactive and and for having started to find answers that work!
That's the toughest part, in my experience....wading through the 'solutions' that don't work until you come across the solution(s) that DO work.
It is totally doable to self attend to most tendonitis issues. If you have the RIGHT information and the RIGHT methods to treat it, you can totally heal yourself at home.
It's very possible that Ren doesn't actually have tendonitis per se, but is having pain that acts just like it. It very well could be that if Ren brings strength and balance back to the legs and the body, the pain will go away of its own accord.
If Ren has actual Tendonitis, meaning wear and tear injury to tendon and connective tissue, -and- the Pain Causing Dynamic that comes along with it, then the exercise and shoe insert may help, but likely won't 'heal' the injury.
Everything that helps, helps.
The rule I work with is, "If I can touch it/get to it with my fingers, I can fix it."
Specifically to Knee Tendonitis, this means that if the problem is external where I can touch it and feel it, I (and you) can fix it.
If the injury is deeper in the joint....there's not much I can do about it except point a person to appropriate exercise and muscular balance.
It's important to know that just because a person feels pain, that doesn't mean that there is any injury, necessarily.
It can. And it's good information.
And in my professional experience, the VAST majority of tendonitis type pain is either
A. Actual wear and tear injury and scar tissue build up
B. No injury, but pain from the machinery of Inflammation and the Pain Causing Dynamic that happens in the body.
When you have the RIGHT information, A. and B. are incredibly simple to deal with.
It might take some time and some effort, there is certainly no magic pill, but one can reliably and effectively eliminate it.
So, Knee Tendonitis.
Find The Spot!
Take some time and feel around your knee area with your fingers. Dig in, explore. Look for hot spots.
Follow the muscles from the thigh down to the knee, see if you can feel where muscle turns to tendon, and where tendon connects to other connective tissue and the bone.
Can you find one or more Hot Spots? Sore areas?
Where exactly is the pain? Look at an anatomy picture of the knee.
Is it pain on a Tendon?
Is it pain on a Ligament, usually the Medial or Lateral Collateral ligaments on the inner and outer sides of the knee.
Is it the Medial Meniscus?
(I had a bruised Medial Meniscus for several months after a month of running up hills. It hurt severely for a month, less severely for 2 more, then got fully better over the next several months of staying off it.
Oddly enough, years before I had been experiencing pain in the same knee, and accidentally discovered that if I pulled weeds out of the gravel driveway for 20 minutes, the pain would completely go away.
The body's funny that way.)
Experiment, explore, check it out.
If there's no hot spot, that is a great clue.
If there is one or more hot spots, that's a good info.
If you find a hot spot on a tendon, or a ligament, or where the upper and lower leg bones meet, those are all good clues.
Clues are good.
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