knee rehab

[weak_link]

^^no problem

Nice article...I have a question..I had left knee pain for a year and took 12 advils a day to ignore it...obviously it became worse and untolerable...I went to PT for a couple of months but nothing seemed to work...I got a MRI and it showed no arthritus but some fluid in the knee and some very mild degenerative scarring which the doctor said was normal for a guy of my age. It should'nt of caused all this pain...anyway, I had a debrement around the back of my knee cap and my quad tendon...nothing major...its been six months and its almost worse than before surgery...my left leg has atrophied a ton...suppossedly I have developed a bad case of patellor tendonitiscaused by the imbalance of strength between my IT band and my VMO...the problem is I cannot train my Quad properly to gain strength because it irritates the tendonitis massively...but the only "cure" is to strengthen my quad so my knee cap won't grind into my PT...my question is ..has anyone here gone through this and made it out with completet pain free knee use again? Secondly, would it help if I did some VAR to speed up the strengthening of my quad muscles?

[bbminded]

You story sounds close to mine. Because of my job i beat the crap out of my kness esp the left one because i had to use it more because of the nature of my work(truck/delivery driver). I already had pain in my back but it was just bareable enough to get through my workouts.
Well one day i went in the gym(leg day actually)and i started on leg extensions first to get warmed up. Well i think i probably did more then warm them up considering i was doing the whole stack of weights for three sets.
So then i go over to get ready to squat. I started light and things seemed fine. Added little more weight(think225lbs) and as soon as my thighs hit parallel my left knee just gave out. It wasnt a type of pain you could work through like my back or some thing.
It just completely gave out. And it continued after that outside the gym as well. Getting up from the couch or trying to sit and get up from the bathroom again my knee just gave out.they did an mri and didnt see anything serious other then some water build up!
it didnt hurt real bad when i was just relaxing or when i was walking sometimes it throbbed a little but nothing even close to what happens when my left thigh reached parellel to the ground no matter what i was doing.
Everything went downhill after that. I got on hard meds, stopped working out because it depressed me that much, plus i was still doing the same job and just reinjuring it everyday!
Ive been outta work now since feb and back in school. no job yet. But starting back to the gym this coming monday. I havent had any recent episodes in a while with the knee doing day to day stuff. I got that supp from usp labs called cissus because of all the good ive heard about it. i guess ill find out this next week where im at. Hopefully its gotten better with the rest and i now know better to NOT warm up with heavy heavy leg extensions!!!

Nice article...I have a question..I had left knee pain for a year and took 12 advils a day to ignore it...obviously it became worse and untolerable...I went to PT for a couple of months but nothing seemed to work...I got a MRI and it showed no arthritus but some fluid in the knee and some very mild degenerative scarring which the doctor said was normal for a guy of my age. It should'nt of caused all this pain...anyway, I had a debrement around the back of my knee cap and my quad tendon...nothing major...its been six months and its almost worse than before surgery...my left leg has atrophied a ton...suppossedly I have developed a bad case of patellor tendonitiscaused by the imbalance of strength between my IT band and my VMO...the problem is I cannot train my Quad properly to gain strength because it irritates the tendonitis massively...but the only "cure" is to strengthen my quad so my knee cap won't grind into my PT...my question is ..has anyone here gone through this and made it out with completet pain free knee use again? Secondly, would it help if I did some VAR to speed up the strengthening of my quad muscles?

[RobbieC]

I have knee problems and Ive been to seven different doctors so far. First it took 3 just to find out where the problem was located. Now I know, but still havent got a clear diagnosis. Ok, anyway. I have had physio and also useless. Seriously, if you wanna improve things you have to be pro-active, exercise daily and adjust them depending to your condition. You dont need all the crazy stuff around it. And dont trust doctors, if it doesnt feel right, they probably dont kno wwhat they are talking about. At least that was my experience.

[Wallstreetbully]

4 knee surgeries myself. All on the same knee at that. Take this shit seriously!