I went running on Friday and had a great run. Then during the night my knee started to hurt. I felt nothing during the run. Then spent two days icing etc and all pain went. Went back on run this morning and after one km it starting hurting so I stopped straight away.
Don’t know what to do. Gutted as running is my lifeline. Do I just try every time it doesn’t hurt? Or just leave for a week? Honestly don’t know what I did as nothing happened on that run on Friday!
Sorry to hear of your pains... great call today stopping straight away. Have a read of this runnersworld.com/uk/health/...
Also the NHS strength and flex programme did wonders for my knees last summer, I’m now pain free for the first time in 30 years.
I can’t really answer the question as to how long before you should run... I used to go for a walk then jog, literally 20 yards, walk again, sprint 20 yards, walk to a hill, run up it for 30 seconds, rest and run back down... if I passed all of that pain free I’d give a run a go, nice and gently on the flat, avoiding hard surfaces.
Post injury, strengthening work on rest days will help to precent recurrence... I wouldn’t recommend starting this while injured though without first consulting a physio.
Thank you so much 😊 do you think wearing knee supports would help in future?
I think I was on week 3 when I injured myself on a rest day (being stupid doing sprints on the beach) I could hardly walk and as luck would have it Lidl were selling knee braces for £7 (my have been 6) at the time... I got them and ankle ones too. I wore them all the time for a couple of weeks with no running. Once they came off at home I used them to start running again for a couple of weeks. I was aware that running in them would inhibit my development a little so I got them off as soon as I could. A non-brace support will help with much less of the development issue, so I could have used one of them for longer I guess. It’s a case of finding the right one for the pain though.
Thank you 😊
Worst thing is not knowing what we did to get the injury. You could have landed awkwardly without realising it..Running with pain is a real non starter and if you strap it..there is no knowing whether you're doing further damage.
I would err on the side of caution and get checked out by a Sports Physio'.
I struggled with my latest injury! Doing everything right, but still ended up seeing my Physio.
Knowing what is going on is,for me , the first step...😊
Thank you. Felt like a failure stopping but know it was for the best. Will see a sports physio x
Well done...not a failure...a really sensible runner.i had to stop...first time in nearly 4 years...and had to get MrOF to rescue me...but I am slowly getting back on track...and the runs are patient...they wait for us..😊
Sooo Fed Up
fed up..
Now I'm Getting Really Fed Up!
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