Sharp Knee Pain

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  • twice a runner

    Member since 04/28/2003.

    589 posts. Last post 11 months ago.
    20 years ago 06/26/2003 1:06am EDT

    I was doing an easy 30 minute run this morning before I left for work, and my right knee felt especially tight the whole time. About 2.5 miles in to the run, going down a hill, I got a very sharp pain in my right knee, that had me hobbling for a few steps. The sharpness went away and I was able to finish the run comfortably.

    Right now it still feels tight. I iced the back side and front of my knee. The pain really seems to be on the front right side of my right knee, kinda where the knee "indents" a little. Does anyone know what this probably is? Runner's knee? Tendonitis?

    I will take this afternoon off most likely, and keep icing. THanks for any help.

  • cool

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    20 years ago 06/26/2003 2:06am EDT
    re: twice a runner

    if it's on the side of the knee there's a good chance it's the iliotibial band (it band), or related issue.

  • Frank Booth

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    20 years ago 06/26/2003 2:44am EDT
    re: twice a runner

    Sounds to me like tendonitis, of which runner's knee is one form. If I were you, I'd take a day or two off. Getting ahead of the inflammation is the key to a quick recovery. I tried to run through patellar tendonitis this past fall and ended up needing to take a lot of time off. My amateur advice would be: take two aleve a day for a week and ice it regularly even after it feels better. Then you might want to figure out if you need to strengthen your quad muscles and/or stretch them out.

  • IT band

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 06/26/2003 4:45am EDT
    re: twice a runner

    that sounds very IT band ish to me

    IT is a bad one - beware

  • itband

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    20 years ago 06/26/2003 6:16am EDT
    re: IT band

    Make sure that you take more than just a day or two off. I would take the whole week off. No use in rushing it. Better than trying to run on it, and eventually having to take three or four weeks off because it wasn't fully healed.

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