please help my knee pain

bump. please help. thanks.

Coincidentally, I'm having problems in the exact same place and it's recovering very slowly but it sounds like you're having a much worse time in terms of pain. For me the problem isn't with the bones in the knee joint, it's with the hamstring tendons from the semitendonosus and semimembranosus that wrap around the knee on the medial side. I saw a sports medicine doctor that specializes in knees to figure it out. The pain I have sure feels like it could be a bone problem, so maybe that's misleading you. Maybe by going to an orthopedist they focus too much on the bones and aren't looking for a hamstring problem.

Have you ever had an Achilles problem in that leg? I just recovered from Achilles tendinitis and I just read in Running Times that a tight Achilles can lead to problems in the calf and/or hamstring.

The only thing that has worked for me is Synvisc arthritis injections. An orthopedist can give them. Three shots, a week apart. My 1st series took over a month to kick in and wore off in 4 months, after that they all lasted 5-6 months. I haven't had them in a year and its better than it was before the shots, but still not great. It just gave me some extra joint fluid in the knee. I've heard of others having much more success than I have had with them. In fact, I've never heard of anyone that didn't have success. If the pain's in the joint, it might be worth a try.

I think steroid injections would be worth a try, but don't run on it immediately just because it feels better.

What about stress fracture. I don't know how good MRI is for that vs bone scan. the point tenderness is worrisome.

thanks for the insight. i was getting worried that people don't answer posts unless there is something scandalous in the header.

i will have to look for a sports med guy who deals with runners. it may indeed be a type of tendon problem and i have just mistaken it because the pain lies on the joint line. i also went to a chiro who practices ART and he felt that it was soft tissue related. he has worked on it a number of times. felt good, no running for a number of months. he gave me the go ahead to run and was back at square 1 after only 2miles.

doubt it is a stress fracture. the initial pain/injury was LAST MARCH and was caused when i sat down to read my boy a book and felt a noise and pain on the inside of knee. thought i just strained it, but obviously i did something much worse.

thanks again. anyone else who has any other ideas, i would appreciate it.

Definetly go to a good sports doctor because a regular doctor usually doesn't diagnose these types of injuries correctly. In the meantime I'd recommend alot of stretching if you're not doing that already because it really does wonders for pain if done correctly.

ive had something very similar and have had fantastic success by addressing weaknesses in my glutes and deep core muscles. its worth getting someone who knows what they are looking for to test you out for things such as these.

5 weeks after 3months of nothing im running pain free