Knee injury thread
I injured my kneed just barely twisting it. There are like 5+ things that commonly break, I probably messed up my meniscus, the C shaped pads between the big stick things (bones for you scientists)
1st I tried limping, my go-to remedy. Didn't help much. Knee hurt all the time.
2nd I tried Dr Youtube, who prescribed:
- Tumeric (for inflammation)
- Cherries (for inflammation)
- Getting a cane.♡ 0 ↻ 0The cane made a big difference, two days of using a cane and my knee didn't start hurting until late in the day, instead of right away.
♡ 0 ↻ 0The Tumeric is also an effective excuse for going out to get Parathas.
♡ 0 ↻ 0I learned I was doing stairs wrong. Go up stairs one at a time, leading with your good leg. Go down stairs one at a time, leading with your *BAD* leg. Somehow this was not intuitive for me.
♡ 0 ↻ 0I also had to watch several videos on how to walk with a cane so you are actually taking weight off your bad knee. Counter-intuitively you hold the can in the hand opposite the bad knee & the cane moves mirror image to the bad leg.
♡ 0 ↻ 0Don't copy Dr House on TV, because he walks with a cane wrong. Dr Youtube badmouthed his bad style several times. Real doctors hate Dr Youtube, but Dr Youtube hates TV doctors.
♡ 0 ↻ 0Anyhow, this shows the importance of exercise, because if I wasn't a regular runner, when people ask why I have a cane, I'd have to say I was old. Instead I can say, it is a sports injury.
♡ 1 ↻ 0Almost a year later - my greatest discovery is the pain generally stays away if I can keep my knees physically warm, i.e. long thermal underwear.
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