I am a collegiate distance runner and have been experiencing significant pain in my right knee (lower outside of knee to the right of the patellar tendon) for the past 6-8 weeks. There is usually little pain at the start of a run but will get gradually worse until I am completely gimping. I haven't been able to get a single run in past 8-9 miles without my knee blowing up. I'm not sure if the pain is related to my knee or the the fibular head and am going to get an MRI within the week.
I've been trying to train through it to salvage something of my final collegiate track season but it has gotten to the point where I will be limping around all day if I run on it too hard.
Any one familiar with such symptoms and have any suggestions as to what the cause may be?