Tape and exercises

[tony_a]

Well after my aborted run on Saturday due to knee pain I duly went to see a physio.

Diagnosis is runners knee caused by a combination of tight quads and week muscles around the knee. I can carry on running but need to do some exercises to strengthen the muscle weaknesses and have some KT tape for extra support.

You can’t go far on this forum without some reference to cross training. Turns out there’s a good reason for that 😀. And if I ever needed motivation to keep up the exercises then removing the first batch of KT tape last night provided it. Starting to understand why people shave their legs. Ouch.

[Deals1 Graduate10]

Pleased to hear it's sortable and u can still run 👍

[tony_a Graduate10 in reply to Deals1]

Thanks. Definitely a relief to know I’ve not done any serious damage and can still run.

[Tartancat Graduate10]

Ooh, ouch! Keep going with the exercises, it's amazing the difference they make 😊

[tony_a Graduate10 in reply to Tartancat]

Will do. It’s a funny thing - I always knew I should do strength work but paying someone to tell me I need to do it seems to help 😀

[Tartancat Graduate10 in reply to tony_a]

Money is a great motivator! And also, if an expert is telling you, it must be true 😊

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10]

Ouch! Better do those exercises then. Glad it’s something you can sort.

[tony_a Graduate10 in reply to BaddieThePirate]

Thanks. So far so good on the exercises. My excuse before was there are so many I could do it was hard to pick - so best not do any. Only have three is much simpler.

I’ve definitely been lucky to have avoided anything more significant.

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to tony_a]

My pain clinic man always inundated me with exercises. I did explain that more than 3 just confuses me, so he gave me 6 then emailed me some more. I was pretty religious about doing my physio exercises after a broken and plated wrist a year ago, but still terrible at doing stretches after my runs, and terrible at doing ankle strengthening exercises.

[cheekychipmunks Graduate10]

Ouch Tony, tape removal. 😖😖😖

It doesn’t sound like you’ve done much damage, so that’s good news. Hope you’re back to full strength - and tapeless - soon! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

[tony_a Graduate10 in reply to cheekychipmunks]

Thanks, I hope so. Two short runs so far this week without issue, though I don’t really know for a while as limited to 10k or less and problems rarely kicked in below that.

[cheekychipmunks Graduate10 in reply to tony_a]

Good luck. 🤞🤞🏃‍♂️

[Agelesslass Graduate10]

Hope it’s not too painful Tony. Ouch !!!

[tony_a Graduate10 in reply to Agelesslass]

It’s like removing a plaster - but ten tones the size 😂. Luckily the tape is supposed to last 4-5 days and I’m going to make sure it does. 😀