The Best Physical Therapist EVER.

So, I went to get my Runners Knee checked out. I asked a girl I work with if she knew any good ones and her sister happens to work for one. Her husband also swears by this guy. I somehow get in after calling on Tuesday.

I'm sitting in the exam room, telling the guy all about the history of my left leg. Sprain October 2006, limping for a couple of months, just started running again last month, pulled hammy in June because I thought it would be a good idea to do deadlifts the day after I rode 80 miles for the first time, and now my knee hurts under the the patella. I tell him I think it is from my gait changing from the sprain and my muscles are imbalanced because the pain goes away after a 10 minute warm up. I tell him about my stretching routine and doing box squats and leg extension with feet turned out, concentrating on the last 45 degrees of movement. I was totally amazed to find someone that is as big a dork about medical stuff as I am. I was impressed. He was explaining all about the muscular interaction and the whys of my weakened VMO causing my patella to twist in the channel it is supposed to ride in. He was awesome.

Now, I have a set of exercises I have to do. So far, they are working and I was even able to run without much pain tonight. Hooray for people that like their job.

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My knee aches. Not just a little, like when I have run for a couple of hours. It hurts more than my knee ever has. Motrin doesn't touch it and stretching isn't helping either. If I would do like I normally do and run/ride for about ten minutes it would stop bothering me. But, soon after, I will pay dearly for the small bit of reprieve my dulled pain receptors gave me.

I hope the physical therapist I'm going to tomorrow will tell me something other than, "You have Runners Knee and you need to scale back your leg workouts and concentrate on swimming." I want my knee to work. I NEED my knee to work. Simply swimming today and doing no other exercise has made me antsy. I feel like a junkie and I need a cardio fix. I don't feel like I earned my meal this evening. I NEED to stay slim and cutting out leg workouts won't help me get where I want to go.

I'm still not sure why I'm doing this.