pain in the outter side of the knee

[Deathmaggot]

it all started because i wanted my tights to flare out while walking, so i began to twist my leg a little when i stepped, so the vastus lateralis looked bigger


so nodays, im starting to feel pain in the outter side of my knee, its the area where the thight joins to the knee, but not inside the knee, its in the thendom

i stopped doing that stupid thing, but now, it hurts when i walk, but the curious thing is that it doesnt hurt when i squat or go upstairs

ideas / tips?

 

[BigBen]

ice it to get the inflammation out and try taking fish oils to lubricate and see if that helps you at all bro.


God Bless
Ben

 

[Deathmaggot]

thx ben, i have fish oil and glucosamine, i could try both


but i feel like after taking glocosamine, all my body joints crack louder, is that bad?

 

[BigBen]

um u dont want dry joint bro, that makes them more suseptable to injury. Kroger grocery stores chain sells the most absorbale kind of glucosemine i have read about thus far. The company is called naturally preferred bro. Load up on the fish oils. i was taking 9 a day and i have heard of going up to 25 a day spread out 5 at a atime.

The herb cats claw is an anti anflammatory and its tannins and phytonutrients have positive effects on the joints and circulatory system(mainly blood pressure)

 

[tim290280]

If it isn't an internal issue but rather surface means the ligament or tendons are inflammed. Interestingly there was an article of T-Nation this week about the two types of pain (high load, low load), might want to give it a quick read.

In terms of dealing with it; try to do as little as possible for a week or so, take an anti-inflamatory, and ice and elevate the knee when you can. Also a prophalatic knee sleeve may help too. Once you get everything under control you want to restart all of your activities from baseline. This means walking/jogging/running properly (treadmill and watch yourself in the mirror), plenty of single leg stability exercises done properly and form adjustments to the big exercises. You will be surprised how much slight disfunction will actually lead to real problems with the way you do things.

Remember that the inflammation could be actual tendon or ligament damage so this could take months to heal properly, and you may actually have internal damage to the meniscus (well show me someone active who hasn't). So you have to keep this in mind and if anything else flares up or things don't improve you need to see a specialist of some sort.

 

[Deathmaggot]

yes i know that this things can take months to heal, i have suffered it

ok so, thx both tim and ben, ill follow those tips