Average recovery time: 60 days
| who | duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| jwolff | 1 days | details | |
| LeeVice | 1 days | details | |
| nomi | 1 days | when i woke up the next morning it completely didn't hurt, except a bit of discomfort on bending knee. but not like muscle pain anyway. peculiar as i thought it would be aggrevated after ballet.. | details |
| Gil | 2 days | Seemed like session of stationary bike took the pain away? | details |
| buzz | 2 days | Cleared up almost as suddenly as it appeared - perhaps a bit of loose stuff floating around - will check with Kim. | details |
| Ezy | 2 days | details | |
| grail | 2 days | Too much stretching never did anyone any good. | details |
| Slimes | 2 days | rest | details |
| pjw21 | 2 days | Ended up being bruised probably from fall. | details |
| Eliot | 2 days | details | |
| kokos | 2 days | Ingen mer jitterbugg utan jitterbuggskurs! =) | details |
| gg | 2 days | details | |
| Ruhis | 2 days | details | |
| Wyatt | 2 days | Seemed to clear up. Perhaps a bruise, or something psychosomatic. | details |
| Hammer | 3 days | details | |
| inuksuk | 3 days | rest | details |
| Chase | 3 days | details | |
| dyee | 3 days | I suspect the discomfort is due to overtraining. Maybe I should work on some strength excercises to stabilize the joint, | details |
| Reef | 3 days | Didn't do anything signaficant to fix the problem. Played through. Not a 100% yet, but good enough. | details |
| jwolff | 3 days | Still sore on some peculiar occasions. | details |
| Nixon | 3 days | Ice, magic cream, rubbing ja love | details |
| Bruce | 3 days | rest, and some ice. | details |
| Tom Beasant | 3 days | think it was just a tight muscle above my knee which was pulling on my knee strangely. | details |
| Ptr | 3 days | Tog tre dagars vila från löpning (och annan träning också för den delen). | details |
| ba-ba | 3 days | light running | details |
| jm1279 | 4 days | Ice helped on my foot and knee. | details |
| willisnot | 4 days | details | |
| capt'n smythie | 4 days | details | |
| dabond | 4 days | details | |
| Ollie | 4 days | Fixed itself before the VM thank goodness. Just went away. | details |
| kkruger | 4 days | details | |
| Tiny | 5 days | details | |
| Sandy | 5 days | details | |
| Cristina | 6 days | details | |
| D.Keyser | 6 days | Resting over the weekend was a big help, did not run Friday through Sunday. Need to be more mindful of my footing on a slipperty surface and work on over all balance and movement so I can react quicker next time. | details |
| Niels-Peter | 6 days | details | |
| Ezy | 6 days | details | |
| Sherpa | 6 days | details | |
| Ezy | 6 days | details | |
| Joe | 6 days | basically rested, ice massage, ointments, stretching | details |
| C2@syd.au | 6 days | details | |
| avro | 7 days | details | |
| michelle | 7 days | details | |
| div | 7 days | ice plus ibu worked well. still little pain but improving. | details |
| RJM | 8 days | rested. I don't think it's spinning per se, but not sure what | details |
| Atropos | 8 days | details | |
| torbensfunk | 8 days | details | |
| cledlie | 9 days | Ran again on 14 June and feel pretty clear around the knees. Must have just been the very intense weekend that caused the trouble with a good rest helping to clear it up. | details |
| shea_craig | 9 days | It went away. | details |
| mmace | 9 days | details | |
| the_latvian | 10 days | I should be paying more attention to running mechanics, because once I increase my training amount, improper running can result in an injury. | details |
| ccsteve | 10 days | Cause - stress too soon after Goat. Cure - rest, limited use, streching. | details |
| C2@syd.au | 10 days | details | |
| HKuestner | 10 days | details | |
| ba-ba | 10 days | rest, bit of walking, rest some more. Think it's gone now... | details |
| jfromme | 11 days | rest seems to have fixed this. | details |
| div | 12 days | almost good, little residual pain | details |
| Burty | 12 days | details | |
| leper | 12 days | Went to see the osteopath when this didn't get better after a week. She said it was lactic acid build up in my upper leg muscles that was pulling on the knee and making it sit in a bad position (i think) and sure enough rubbing said muscles to relax them made the problem go away for the rest of the day. I'm going to wear orthotics constantly from now on, we think it was the thongs that triggered it to start with, and then it was exacerbated by the long/hard bike ride that next weekend. I foun... | details |
| div | 13 days | ice ibu | details |
| bubi | 14 days | details | |
| div | 14 days | almost gone. | details |
| pfc | 15 days | Didn't feel it after the 40+ hour training event, so it must be healed. | details |
| simi | 15 days | på grund av den andra skadan fick jag ont på andra sidan! jag vilade i en hel vecka utan att göra någonting sedan blev det bättre | details |
| speedy | 15 days | Stoped doing stretching for a week or so ... | details |
| RJM | 17 days | Pretty sure this turned out to be ITBand. Perhaps I injured it in the 7 mile tempo run, but hard to tell. Rest did little good, but symptoms greatly reduced almost immediately after doing ITB (and runner's knee) exercises and stretches. | details |
| Jagge | 18 days | Hamstring is so much worse, so I declare my knee recovered. | details |
| linus_sandgren | 18 days | Too much running long distance. Could come back this weekend, but let's hope not. | details |
| rocky | 19 days | Not fully recovered by Dec 31st. Still a bit tender but I have been doing trail runs and it feels okay to run on. I have been told runners, bikers, swimmers use forward motion so the side muscles in the legs are not balanced. When I start my weight training I will be sure to include this. | details |
| dkonotopetz | 19 days | details | |
| Ralph | 19 days | details | |
| bubi | 20 days | details | |
| vyc | 20 days | less intensive training, sauna, diclac, icing | details |
| mood | 20 days | I should be more carefull when I start training again after beeing ill. | details |
| walk | 21 days | The only thing different in the end was Glucosamine 4x/day (500mg). Knee joints seem fine after being real sore all spring. L calf remains very sore so will start another entry. 6/24 - Wore old DS Trainers. R outside heel soft, compressing more, torquing leg and putting strain on knee. Knee sore as before. Retired shoes! 6/21 - dropped dose to 2x per day. See if stays ok. So far been ok. 7/22 - end of glucos. But knee starting to act up again. Very sore in joint after long runs for las... | details |
| Hammer | 22 days | details | |
| WileyKyO-T | 22 days | details | |
| Niels-Peter | 23 days | details | |
| Skidder | 25 days | After a weeks rest and then running a week or more with the soft brace the knee is back to normal. Whenever I lengthen the distance substantially - especially on tempo runs - I should where the brace as a precaution. | details |
| div | 25 days | looks like recovered | details |
| irt | 25 days | details | |
| dcady | 26 days | No problems or symptoms after running sprint and medium at CNYO meet so this injury is declared cured. Made a promise to myself to not push it though...to think carefully about what I am doing with my knee and to increase training slowly, which I have always done. | details |
| Lunaeventer | 26 days | Further traumatic injury to knee. | details |
| kivisap | 27 days | details | |
| dcady | 27 days | Slowly got better. Didn't do anything for it except stop all running. Bike riding didn't help. | details |
| biddy | 28 days | ignoring the fact it was there and running within pain and three loads of physio | details |
| dlevine | 28 days | Combination of time and gentle lifting (to increase quad strength) reduced/removed pain. Leg still weak, but mostly pain-free | details |
| JoS | 28 days | details | |
| Bomb | 30 days | details | |
| Ant Squire | 30 days | details | |
| OnYourLeftCyril | 30 days | it was overuse injury i think. knee cap pain went away as i tapered for the grand teton 100. | details |
| simkiss | 30 days | Not really actually recovered...but not bothering me for now... | details |
| willisnot | 31 days | Icing and vitamin I seemed to work | details |
| tim_sleepless | 31 days | details | |
| Georgia | 31 days | Stress reaction in patella. Caused by dodgy running style and overly tight quads | details |
| ianf | 33 days | details | |
| bubi | 34 days | Rest for a while ... ;) Universal cure. | details |
| dabond | 37 days | I still don't understand what caused it, and the only way it got better was staying off it. | details |
| michelle | 39 days | details | |
| triple-double | 40 days | details | |
| randy | 40 days | volume related; reduce volume. Don't run on it. Running was ok until pain onset, then stop. The net is rife with innocuous-seeming quad stretches that are claimed to help this problem. They seemed to. | details |
| michelle | 41 days | details | |
| hkleaf | 43 days | Not really sure what caused it since I've never had any knee problems before. May have tweaked the knee running in the GNC, in addition to the already inflamed ITBand, that compounded the injury. Treatment (done alongside the ITBand injury) included REST, X-Train (Swim), and also physical therapy - strengthening exercises, stretches, massages, ultra-sound, ice, and electrical stimulations. A knee brace was also fitted for running and other activities to help keep meniscus in place. | details |
| boyle | 45 days | details | |
| kurthu | 48 days | details | |
| khall | 49 days | Took 6 days completely off. We'll see if it is really cured. | details |
| Bomb | 49 days | surgery to remove cyst. | details |
| roschi | 50 days | slowly stopped hurting after longer and longer runs.. i am taking it off now as i think the 100 mile run serves as a good measure stick that the knee is healed up! | details |
| mattspencer | 52 days | Came on after doing a lot of walking in HK, maybe being tight and dehydrated didn't help. Same side as recovering grion strain, not sure if thats related! | details |
| kivisap | 53 days | details | |
| walk | 54 days | Think it may be passed. Running pretty well finally. Believe it started because of building up too quickly after the holiday lay off. Too much too soon and pop. Backing off and building more slowly seems to be working, so far. | details |
| TK | 56 days | Had surgery to repair meniscus tear. Caused by running in very uneven ground. | details |
| brandenh | 61 days | details | |
| maprunner | 67 days | Needed several weeks off from running (with I and I), then lots of leg strengthening physical therapy. Also helped to tape the patella in place. Slowly moving back into jogging. Knees don't hurt much, so I'm claiming recovery. June 13: first pain Jul 23: stop running Aug 30: diagnosis Sep13: started PT (daily at home) Sep 17: taped knees 24/7 Oct 18: only tape knees during runs Oct 31: stop daily PT Nov 4: stopped taping during runs | details |
| chiuihc | 70 days | details | |
| Blue fox | 70 days | details | |
| Nick | 78 days | still hurts (seldom that's true -feb 1/2007 ). help recovery: stretching and exercises. | details |
| Vector | 78 days | Rest, strecthing. Not certain what the issue was. | details |
| Tane | 84 days | doing nothing | details |
| Slimes | 87 days | water running, | details |
| iriharding | 101 days | Lyme disease ... caught it in aug 2005 , but not diagnosed until aug 2006 | details |
| Acampbell | 101 days | saw a doctor a while ago and he said i probably bruised the back of my knee cap. started kinda running again and isn't bothering me too much any more so i'm going to say that it has healed. but rest and a doctors advise has helped it go away. | details |
| OnYourLeftCyril | 102 days | bone bruise took a long time to heal and i needed to rest it more than i was. ice, heat worked well i think. foam roaller helped i think. taking care of my it band helped. massage helped i think. by the end i was taking a tissue rejuvenator type product and that helped maybe. | details |
| Russ Baldwin | 103 days | time heals, havnt had any reocurences for a while | details |
| buzz | 119 days | Seems to have gone but.... doing little exercise and swapping the problem to the other knee did the trick! | details |
| Qbranch | 120 days | I guess I can consider this recovered. It hasn't caused any real pain in a while. What I would consider a major factor in my recovery is actually being re-injured playing hockey, which ironically increased my range of motion but at the cost of some major bruising due to the collision. Who's to say exactly what happened... | details |
| ebone | 123 days | Given that the knee didn't hurt during my extensive hiking/running sessions while course setting for the Salmon La Sac Rogaine, nor during the Goat race on June 16, I think it's time to call it recovered. It did hurt a bit again on June 23, when I put too much strain on it doing something, but it felt better the next day, so at this point, I think it's going to be just old-injury pain. I'm pretty sure the injury was caused by all the skate skiing at the Sierra Ski-O Week, followed by one/so... | details |
| _________ | 131 days | Orthopedic surgeons can be useful. Heaps of time wasted hoping it would go away, accepting there is a problem, confirming diagnosis, waiting for it to fail to heal before finally succumbing to surgery. | details |
| Grafaz | 146 days | Sumazinus kruvi begte asfaltu kelis rodos sugijo. Galutinai isitikinti, reiktu pabandyti ilgiau prasibegti asfaltu. | details |
| AlexO | 153 days | more or less recovered, have been running for three weeks before recurence of injuries, expect new sneakes and knee strap to prevent further injuries | details |
| unpronunciation | 158 days | details | |
| Jeff18 | 169 days | details | |
| bshields | 171 days | I took a couple of weeks of no activity over Christmas break. Very little walking around even. I also started some breathing exercises hardcore (learned them in a tai chi class a few years ago). That helped a bit maybe. | details |
| smoke | 203 days | details | |
| bmay | 212 days | As of about May/June, it seems to be pretty much fully cleared up (knock on wood). | details |
| mat-d | 236 days | details | |
| johncrowther | 275 days | Torn medial meniscus. Needed arthroscopic surgery to sort out. | details |
| elipsius | 303 days | Well not fixed just doesn't hurt that much anymore, I put July in as my close date due to getting results from my Orthopedic doctor. Happend in BJJ, a quick twist in the knee not exactly sure when it happend I just know it happend when rolling with a 290~300lb dude. Felt some discomfort at the end of class in my knee but nothing much, but the next day when I woke up I couldn't walk on it. | details |
| boyle | 316 days | Don't run in worn out shoes. | details |
| boyle | 351 days | Don't get old. | details |
| feet | 359 days | Update 5/10/07: well, call it gone. But more stretching won't hurt. Running less, and in particular less AR, seems to have helped too. | details |
| elipsius | 377 days | Well the knee is working much better now, only thing when I start running I can tell it gets sensitive, I've been working my knees out to strengthen them so I think that has been helping. Main thing I notice is when I work out pretty hard or when it's cold out and the wild cools down my knees while biking it feels a little sensitive. But nothing I can't handle so I guess I'm done with this one. | details |
| ned | 455 days | not too bad at the moment with all the extra riding, will see how it goes | details |
| Hammer | 463 days | surgery. | details |
| danf | 509 days | details | |
| Schwepps | 525 days | Not causing too much trouble recently 14.8.2007: Been noticing this again recently | details |
| bwhitch | 7+ days | details | |
| L-Jackson | 10+ days | details | |
| c | 11+ days | details | |
| dcady | 13+ days | details | |
| HKuestner | 23+ days | details | |
| ZD | 33+ days | details | |
| ErrErr | 38+ days | details | |
| Tom_O | 40+ days | details | |
| Nadim | 49+ days | details | |
| Morten | 57+ days | details | |
| graham | 64+ days | details | |
| Ezy | 80+ days | details | |
| F-Master-C | 82+ days | details | |
| Akhilleus | 89+ days | details | |
| cbat84 | 96+ days | details | |
| bubi | 113+ days | details | |
| disorienteer | 122+ days | It's not patellar tendonitis. | details |
| lost in space | 139+ days | details | |
| Charlie | 162+ days | details | |
| ijustgotdropped | 171+ days | details | |
| prez now retired | 196+ days | details | |
| Alibongo | 198+ days | details | |
| shinseth | 205+ days | details | |
| huskiesxc | 205+ days | details | |
| kungen1 | 208+ days | details | |
| 24 | 258+ days | details | |
| ian | 281+ days | details | |
| guitarbiker | 288+ days | details | |
| falstaff | 324+ days | details | |
| Xlive.to.runC | 389+ days | details | |
| speedy | 389+ days | details | |
| dtaggart | 417+ days | details | |
| mattspencer | 492+ days | details | |
| µ | 510+ days | details | |
| speedy | 514+ days | details | |
| . | 566+ days | details | |
| fern | 586+ days | I'm sure its due to a tight ITB which has been troubling me since Friday. From experience this should go in a day or two - no running tomorrow though. | details |
| candyman | 587+ days | details | |
| smatti | 606+ days | details | |
| maez | 780+ days | details | |
| simi | 795+ days | details | |
| rambo | 1172+ days | details |