Get a doctor first recommend a sport medicine doc and elevate and Ice.
Get a doctor first recommend a sport medicine doc and elevate and Ice.
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It sounds like a partial meniscus tear although an MRI may not give a definitive answer.
I had similar inside knee pain 3 years ago and had an MRI which proved I had arthritis with a poss. small meniscus tear.
Decision for me was simple exercises and RICE treatment. So far ,so good .
Does my knee ever bother me anymore ? I'd be lying if I said no .
A Meniscectomy would trim off the brittle ends that are causing my occasional knee pain but until that day comes I'll simply keep exercising and being smart about using proper body mechanics.
Good Luck !
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My brother said going down Blood Mtn a few weeks ago was making his knees hurt really badly. I was fine and I was using my trekking poles. I didn't take my poles to stone mtn and thats where my problem started.
I think the moral of this story is just use your dang poles!
For what it's worth, I've found that how I place my feet while hiking makes a big difference in my inside-the-right-knee pain. If I turn my right foot slightly in on each step, I have much less pain at the end of the day. The mechanics of this make no sense to me, but it works.
Of course, putting as much weight as possible on my poles on downhills, and staying off pavement help a lot, too.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran
I broke down and went to the Dr today.
And basically after poking and prodding and xrays he came to the conclusion that my knee and ligaments were all good.
He said there could be some cartiledge damage but they only way that could be determined is to go to a knee dr and let him peek inside with one of those scopy thingies.
He said i was to rest my knee for 10 days. No hiking or exercising. After 10 days I should give it another try. But he said I should take it easy because I have a spelunking trip in December that I want to be in good shape for.
He said i have to use my trekking poles. No ifs, ands or butts. That if i go on a maintenance trip I couldnt carry any equipment cause I have to use my poles. This isnt going to make me very popular at ALL! I hope my short lived career as a trail maintainer isnt over!
I'm suppose to minimize my pack and carry only what is essential. Now I dont know if this is a short term thing or a long term thing.
He said a brace wouldn't do any good and could cause pain in new and exciting places.
I'm going to be very bored this weekend!
Ok, I know this advice is going to be very controversial...
But some of the latest research (still not accepted by the "medical establishment") is beginning to indicate that a lot of the back, hip, and knee pain endemic to Western cultures is in fact caused by shoes.
Not BAD shoes, but just shoes in general, even the "good supportive" kind... in fact, the most high-tech arch-supporting anti-pronating shoes may be the worst offenders. Obviously, this flies in the face of conventional wisdom, but hear me out.
The theory is that shoes interfere with the natural shock-absorbing functions of the three main arches of the foot. The easiest way to picture it is to think of the shock absorbers in your car. They are made to flex, compress, and expand under force, to prevent the jolts of the road from being felt by riders in the car... but if you put "support" on the shock absorbers, in the form of a bar that keeps them from compressing and/or packing them in absorbant cotton, you essentially render them useless. You turn your springy shock absorber into a stiff stick, and all the jolts of the road are transferred right into the passenger compartment.
The theory is that feet work the same way. They are designed to move in a particular way that minimizes shock to other parts of the body. The big central arch flexes, compresses, and springs back. The arch of the big toe lets you push off for the next step with a minimum of knee strain.
But feet in shoes can't do that. Shoes force your big toe to turn inward, and bring that push-off strain to the middle of your foot, where it sets off a chain reaction in the muscles up your leg to the knee. (Ever notice how people who have been wearing pointy-toed shoes all day automatically rub the middle of their forefoot when they take them off?). Arch supports keep your feet from their natural flex. These DO provide pain relief to people who have had "arch trouble"-- in the same way that a cast provides relief to someone with a broken leg. If you've never gone barefoot and strengthened your arches, then you will have arch trouble, but keeping your foot constantly in the "brace" of a shoe just exacerbates the problem long-term.
The best support for this theory, at least until they can do controlled long-term studies, is the fact that in societies where people habitually go barefoot, these foot, knee, and back problems are almost unheard-of. Even in Western culture, injuries among runners have skyrocketed since Nike invented the whole concept of the "running shoe."
Among the small but growing number of experts who advocate barefooting as a cure for these kinds of ailments, it is generally agreed that it is not wise to plunge into it full-time if you've been wearing "supportive" shoes all your life, any more than you would run a marathon the day after getting your leg out of a cast. You have to build up to it gradually, building your muscles and allowing your foot to return to its natural shape over time, as you also toughen up your soles to handle different kinds of terrain.
If you're interested in this and want more information, I would recommend The Barefoot Book by Dr. Daniel Howell (available on Amazon). (Disclaimer: I contributed a couple of pages to this book about my own experience.) For a quick free primer on the subject, you can look at his blog: http://barefootprof.blogspot.com/ He's done several recent posts on foot mechanics.
Hope all this info is helpful to someone. :-)
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