R Knee, Other
2016-04-13 – 2016-06-20
Grade: 3
Right knee has been hurting sporadically over the last couple of weeks. Starting to feel a lot like when I had a meniscus tear in my left knee in 2000.
4/20/16: Upgrading severity from 1 to 2 based on my run at the lake, where I had to ease off for the last 2 miles.
4/26/16: Neither my orthopedist (Haber) nor my PT (Kevin) think there's anything structurally wrong with my knee. It appears that I've strained the lower quads. Will be working on learning to engage my glutes in order to take pressure off my quads.
After nearly two months of physical therapy, I'm back to running normally, though my knee is certainly not 100%. Will continue to do the glute activation exercises, which hopefully will take the pressure of my knee.
11/18/16: The knee held up through 3 days of orienteering in Laramie, but then was troublesome hiking in RMNP right afterwards. Mostly OK through the summer, including the trip to WMOC in Estonia. Held up fine during the 2-day Classic and NorthAms in Sept. Even in late Oct I wondered whether the right knee would ever feel the same as the left knee again. But recently, I noticed that I'm no longer noticing my right knee, so it appears to finally be completely recovered.