Knee pain

Coming from a biomechanical point of view, do you have flat feet? Is there any clicking/grinding when you flex or extend your knee? Any pain when you touch the medial (inside) aspect of your knee anywhere? If so, where exactly (in relation to the medial femoral condyle - the large roundish bony prominence on the medial aspect of the knee)?

From the info given, I don't know exactly what the diagnosis might be, but I would ice it big time (2-3x/day 15 on, 45 off) and take anti-inflammatories to see if that eleviates any of the problems. It sounds like you might hae "runner's knee" or slight inflammation of the pes anserine tendons (3 muscle tendons that attach to the medial aspect of the knee and may grind against the femoral condyles during running).

there is an injury fairly common with runners...i thought it was called runner's knee..but its different then the previous posts explained it. anyway sometimes there is a muscle imbalance and the knee cap actually gets pulled one way or the other.. and thus it does not move in the designed groove.. if this is the problem you may need to do some exercises to strengthen the muscles in the area. i would see a sports doctor before it gets worse

Thanks for the advice. I haven't iced it enough, it's true. I'll try doing that more until I can get to a doc.

.....also, are you taking glucosamine? That stuff really seems to work for a lot of runners including myself. Give it 2-3 weeks of 1000-1500mg daily dodage then back off to 500 or so for maintenance. It is worth a try anyway and cost about 12-17 bucks a bottle.

Last year I had similar pain, it was on the inside of my right knee. It would only hurt after about 10 minutes into a run. It hurt bad enough that I could not run through it. I saw a bunch of doctors and all of them said the same thing, that it was patella femoral. After months of not running and rehab excercises for patella femoral it didn't get any better. Then I got it scoped, and it turned out I had a plica. It's a fold in the sheath that covers the knee joint. They cut it out and I was running in 3 weeks. Kind of sucks, considering I could of gotten it done 5 months before hand and had a track season.

They said it should come up in an MRI, but you could only see it on me when my leg was bent and during the MRI it was straight. If I were you I'd get an MRI, and maybe they could do it with your leg straight and bent.

I have the exact problem that FLETCH is describing. When I extend my right knee, I get a clicking and grinding slightly postero-medially behind the medial femoral condyle. The clicking and grinding is there before a run, but afterwards I can extend the knee without that occuring. Can this be due to tight hamstrings or tight adductors which get loosened up during a run?

I went to see an orthopod a while back for it, and he was clueless as to what it was, called it "tendon-opathy" and maybe a slight bursitis, but I really didn't believe him since he didn't listen too well. Tried the glucosamine- no real help there. The chiropracter has been only a temporary solution with no real long-term help. I've also developed a bit of a hip flexor problem on the same leg, which sucks, too...

If you have any further info on the pes anserine tendons or what else this problem might be called and what can be done for it, I'd greatly appreciate it!