Saturday 23rd July
Bused to osteopath so she could check out my knee. I felt good about how the appointment went. This osteopath has bad knees herself (sounds like gravel crunching on gravel when she moves her knees) so I feel she understands exactly what I'm going through.
Turns out I probably have chondromalacia patella in both knees but it's my left knee being a little twisted and having adhesions occasionally that causes the pain. Hence the random off and on nature of the pain.
She sort of clicked my knee back in and massaged it. I'm meant to be icing it twice today sometime.....
No stretching for a few days but then do more quad stretching etc. Also leg weights. She said my leg muscles were not weak but I have laxity in the ligaments running along either side of the left knee cap which allow it to twist out of place. She could show me the difference in movement between my left knee and my right. Leg weights will build up the muscles and allow them to sort of do part of the job of those lax ligaments.
I'm thinking looking over my right shoulder to check for traffic when cycling with my feet secured in my bike shoes is bad. To my fashionable triathlete mother and her cyclist boyfriend's disgust I'll have to put an extremely uncool looking rear vision mirror on the handle bars of my bike.
Also I know now that not being allowed to pivot is not good for me. I never felt comfortable with it anyway but now I know I need to allow the foot to move to avoid twisting my knee as I turn.
I'm relieved to know it's not going to be months again before I can run.
I walked home from my appointment - approx 1 hour. I still don't know how to make walking good exercise - if I ever do it regularly I'll have to concentrate on keeping up the tempo because I mentally drift off and then saunter along a little too relaxed.
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