follow-up

I visited my sports doctor today to go over the pain in my surgical knee when running.

Apparently the pain in my knee from running is from the kneecap not tracking properly and it's from both a tight IT Band and a weaker Inner quad muscle. The good news is that it's nothing to worry about. He recommended 3 things:

- hitting the foam roller every day to smooth out the IT band
- more strength training for my inner quad.
- wear a knee sleeve during sports to help the kneecap track better.

He also mentioned my surgical acl is slightly looser than my normal knee but that it's still perfectly normal and nothing to worry about. The surgeon tries his best to make it match the other leg, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

9 months post op!

One step forward, one step back.

The swelling / extra fluid that showed up 2 weeks ago is completely gone. Even the fluid that was there normally after surgery is gone, which was a nice surprise.

However, I now have pain in my knee while running. The pain is located above the kneecap. Funnily enough, going from a stop to a run doesn't hurt, only when I'm running at a steady pace. My guess is some form of quad tendinitis / overuse injury, or possibly cartilage damage. Unfortunately, the 2 weeks I took off didn't help as during my ultimate frisbee game last night I still felt pain while running and was relegated to guarding the "slow guy".

This is my 9 months post op post, and unfortunately this past month hasn't been too great. However, the acl is still in great shape and my knee is completely stable. At this point I may have to take some time off depending on the what the doc says.