Once in a while I will compete or run marathons, but usually I run every day. But then last summer, a terrible pain flared up in my right knee. I almost slapped the doc when he told me that because of my condition, I would have to stop running for a while.
There are joints in your knee that glide smoothly against cartilage in the knee itself. But when you get Runner’s Knee, the joints rub up against the knee and causes terrible pain. This is what I was experiencing and let me tell you, it’s not fun.
So I armed myself with a book, a bottle of Vicodin, and started keeping the couch company. This absolutely drove me insane! I wanted to be active, but my Runner’s knee was all ran out for a while.
This is what I learned to keep my sanity. You can only purchase things from infomercials so many times before it dawns on you that they’re all junk! There is, in fact, a reality show for every single situation you could ever think of. It really is impossible to read the encyclopedia.
Heating pads were in fact sent from God to heal the world. It is true that people have thousands of channels, and there is still nothing to watch. Finally, my knee got better and now I am running again. I can only describe those few weeks in my life as ‘Hell Week!’ Well, time to go for a run!
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