I've been noticing some right knee and hip pain since I started training for the Sun Run in January, and I finally was able to see a sports medicine specialist yesterday. (My doctor admitted that she knows very little about sports medicine and figured it was best to just send me off to someone who knows what they're doing.)
The doctor's diagnosis was that I have hip bursitis on my right side, which is caused by a super tight IT band. The tight IT band is also probably causing some knee pain, but the main cause of my knee pain is probably the fact that my kneecap on my right side is pretty loose. For my treatment, I'm supposed to be stretching my IT band a lot more and doing squats to strengthen my quads to help keep my kneecap stable. He didn't tell me to stop running, though, so that's good! I'll be back in his office in about 7 weeks to see whether I'm feeling better.
When scheduling the follow up appointment, I realized that the half is 6 and a half weeks! Ah! So soon!
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After my 20K last week, I've been having pain in my right knee too! I think it's my IT band too, Tom gave me this link for exercises to help stretch the IT band. http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=6099
ReplyDeleteHope we both can recover and keep running hard!