Will try and keep descriptions short…
A few months ago – end-ish July, I fell through a ceiling between joists. I suppose, 14ish years flooring, it was bound to happen at some point. Thankfully, I didn’t go all the way through – my left lowest rib and elbows stopped that happening. I assume that was some kind of rib-fracture as sneezing still induces a little bit of pain now. 🙂 It was an absolute world of pain for a few weeks though. 😡
Anyway, during the fall, I managed to whack the inside of my right knee off a joist (or something) on the way down but in the following few weeks of clouded rib pain vs painkillers, I kinda didn’t really notice it. It was only as the weeks went on, that it became more of a thing.
It’s weird as it doesn’t affect walking at all (or kneeling…and I do enough of that from day to day) and any front to back hingeing of the knee is not painful at all. However, if there’s any kind of sideways/twist it hurts quite a bit. I can locate the pain to the inside-top of my tibia (where it widens out) and can cause pain when I put finger pressure on it. Other than that, there’s no day-to-day pain unless there’s lateral/twisty movement.
Obviously, my knees are pretty integral to my work. I’ve not done a day’s work without built-in kneepads and to be fair, they’ve never given me a days trouble really.
Really wanting to get back out and do some running over the winter and will be boarding a few times in Jan/March and for long term work, just a bit worried about it. 😐
So, GP? Bite the bullet and see a physio privately?
Or MTFU – it’ll go away in time?