Patellar Tendonitis

I have had many bouts with tendonitis, including a mild case of patellar tendonitis that I beat back with the provebial stick. The two biggest factors for me was to ice like crazy, and easy rehab excercises to be done religiously. The excercises should be very light, so as not to strain the inflammed tendon but gently strengthen it. It sounds like your doing everything right so far. I have found that the pain of tendonitis never completly goes away until you get back on the roads. It sounds like you caught the injury early and may be a little over cautious. I have always felt a little "something" towards the end of the healing process, and the injury feels like it will never go away. I have found the best remedy to finish the healing process is to start running. 20min - 30min, 1 Day on 1 Day off (or some "sloth jogging": jog walk 2on 2off) for a week, after this the progression is quite rapid, 2 days @ 45min, 1 day off etc. The most important thing is to listen to your body; acute pain, stride altering etc, you need more time off. Never underestimate the power of positive thinking; with every stride imagine the tendons getting stronger. 2 weeks of rehab running and you may be surprised how quickly you are ready to roll. Once your running again Ice, ice ice and exercises religiously- be paranoid. This is what has worked for me, but you are the only one who truly knows how the injury feels, you may have caught this early enough where you hardly miss a beat (which is what it sounds like to me) Be careful, the worst thing you can do is to try to tough it out and end up on a six week hiatus.

keep me posted on your status. No matter what happens you must learn from your injuries so as not to be repeated blah blah blah.

isnt it spelled and pronounced "patella" minus the "r"?

Thanx A.O.D. I should tell you I dont know if this is exactly cathing it "early" I could barely walk last week following the race. I tried running today and felt a moderate inflammation after about 15 min. so I stopped,iced, etc. Following the run, the soreness lasted through the morning and was pretty much gone by afternoon. Is this how things went as you started back into your day on/day off regimen? I'm hoping this pain gradually begins to subside rather than persist.

The patella is the bone, it is known as the patellar tendon. Does PSU stand for Penn State? If so I can understand your confusion (just kidding,from a Bucknell guy)

BF

GET THE SAND OUT OF YOUR BOX AND JUST RUN YOU BITCH

I agree with runswith balls, it sounds like you're being a big pussy about this whole thing. Sometimes you just have to run through the pain for the good of the team. Maybe you should attatch the e-stem to your head instead of your knee to fix the problem.

better yet, don't attach the e-stim to your head, attach it to your BALLS!!

There is going to be soreness and inflammation. Tendonitis is never here one day and gone the next. There is a huge difference between running through aches and pains and further agitating an injury. There is a fine line between rehab soreness and pain that is making it worse, unfortunatley there is no definitive answer. Listen to your body as best you can blah, blah. But yeah, soreness should be expected, and you may need to run a little longer and may start to feel better or stay the same, just as long as the pain doesnt get worse.

Discalimer: I am Not a coach/trainer just a runner who has had tendonitis. What works for me could not work for everybody yada yada yada, consult a trainer blah blah blah.

Good Luck

keep me posted