Results of Wounded Knee
Jun. 13th, 2008 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeIn an unusually efficient morning, I achieved X-rays, specialist appointment, and physical therapy. And I was still in work by noon. Go Me.
My damage appears to be uneven wearing and grinding of cartilage. Cause unknown, since I couldn't point to any trauma; the frontrunners for guilt are the leg extension weight machine, which is apparently evil on your knees, and/or the way I was trying to correct my running stride since I tend to land on the outside of my feet. Whatever the reason, what seems to be going on is that my quadriceps are MIGHTY!~ and have told the rest of my muscles "oh get out of the way you useless sods, let me do it" so that when I move my knee, it's Doin It Rong, and the connective tissue has thus become very unhappy, and worn, and inflamed.
So, here is what I have to do:
- 600mg vitamin I, 2x daily (morning and night)
- No running.
- Yes elliptical.
- No deep-knee stretches or movements or aggravations.
- No leg extension machine, for it is Evil.
- Single-leg bridges, 2 reps of ten, on each side (for to strengthen my glutes. Apparently my ass is not mighty enough)
- I.T. band roller stretch, 2 min on each side (this hurts like a motherfucker)
- 3 or 4-inch stepdown on the right side, making sure my left knee does not turn inward when I step, 2 reps of ten
- Come back three more times in the next several weeks for PT followups
- Come back and see the boss doctor in a month.
At that latter point, he will see how it's going, and judge whether this will be sufficient or whether bigger juju will be required. (I'm okay with that.)
My damage appears to be uneven wearing and grinding of cartilage. Cause unknown, since I couldn't point to any trauma; the frontrunners for guilt are the leg extension weight machine, which is apparently evil on your knees, and/or the way I was trying to correct my running stride since I tend to land on the outside of my feet. Whatever the reason, what seems to be going on is that my quadriceps are MIGHTY!~ and have told the rest of my muscles "oh get out of the way you useless sods, let me do it" so that when I move my knee, it's Doin It Rong, and the connective tissue has thus become very unhappy, and worn, and inflamed.
So, here is what I have to do:
- 600mg vitamin I, 2x daily (morning and night)
- No running.
- Yes elliptical.
- No deep-knee stretches or movements or aggravations.
- No leg extension machine, for it is Evil.
- Single-leg bridges, 2 reps of ten, on each side (for to strengthen my glutes. Apparently my ass is not mighty enough)
- I.T. band roller stretch, 2 min on each side (this hurts like a motherfucker)
- 3 or 4-inch stepdown on the right side, making sure my left knee does not turn inward when I step, 2 reps of ten
- Come back three more times in the next several weeks for PT followups
- Come back and see the boss doctor in a month.
At that latter point, he will see how it's going, and judge whether this will be sufficient or whether bigger juju will be required. (I'm okay with that.)
