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  • Knee pain – good websites to get info?
  • convert
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    Looking for bit of self diagnosis before going for professional advice.

    For the last 3 years I’ve had a dodgy knee but it’s not been an issue because my hip on the other side was so much worse! Now the hip is fixed the knee is a bit of a problem. Basically for the first 15 minutes of a bike ride it feels like it’s going to buckle under me if I get out of the saddle. Instant pain for a split second at the top of the stroke that is so short lived I find it hard to diagnose where on the knee the pain is coming from but very painful. After 20 minutes riding its completely gone (every time) and I can push as hard as I like out of the saddle with no ill effects. What’s worse is riding for just a couple of minutes across the village to get between buildings and then climbing stairs – I’ve found myself on my arse a few times as my knee has completely given way half way up the staircase…..but the split second pain and weakness has passed and I’m on my back feeling totally fine(for someone who has fallen down half a staircase).

    davidtaylforth
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    What does the arch of your foot look like?

    convert
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    Flat as.

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    davidtaylforth
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    😀

    Get a big arch support.

    What about the other foot? The same?

    convert
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    Yep. I’m guessing the same for both feet then?

    shermer75
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    If your knee is buckling to the point that you are falling down stairs then it is time to see a physio, sooner rather than later, as

    A) you have a genuine complaint and do not need to feel guilty and

    B) you are at risk of causing yourself an injury

    There are a few different things that may be causing it, a couple of the more likely ones being osteoarthritis and/or weak quadriceps. As a cyclist though I am not sure why your quads would be weak! But hey-ho. Get thee to a physio for a proper assessment and take it from there! 🙂

    davidtaylforth
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    An arch support will help on the bike I’d have thought.

    Worth doing a self assessment via google before you see a physio. If you do go and see a physio, pick a good one. I’ve seen several physios over the years, all of them missed my issues. I just worked it out for myself.

    davidtaylforth
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    Your flat arches may be the result of a problem somewhere else, probably in your pelvis.

    convert
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    Cheers. I will do.

    It is odd – it’s not like standing on something sharp where you feel the pain and flinch. My knee has given way before I’ve had an opportunity to acknowledge the pain. But after 20 minutes riding carefully I’m right as rain and can push as hard as I like.

    davidtaylforth
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    Could also be ligament damage in your knee? Although you’d know about it if you’d ever done something to cause that.

    shermer75
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    As for good websites for knee pain- let me know when you find one! 🙂 As is often the case with this sort of thing, the information is scattered all over the place in various journals, clinical trials, text books and personal experiences, so you have to collate it all together and use your clinical reasoning to formulate an assessment plan and move forward from there. Or go to someone who does that for you, like a physio! 🙂

    jambalaya
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    Knees are bl00dy complicated. Knee itself plus support from muscles and hamstrings.

    Plan A don’t get out if the saddle until you are properly warmed up, go and see a physio. IGMC.

    M6TTF
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    My feet are as flat as a pancake – orthotics helped my knees no end

    Drac
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    Pay for a private physio examination it’ll be money well spent.

    badnewz
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    I tried to self-diagnosis route. Then the physio. Then one of the country’s top knee specialists, which I paid for privately, including xrays (now waiting on a mri through the nhs).
    I think the answer is going to be, more physio.

    CountZero
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    Basically for the first 15 minutes of a bike ride it feels like it’s going to buckle under me if I get out of the saddle.

    Had exactly this for some years, although when walking, after a hard low-speed impact involving my left knee and the Tarmac. After several visits to my doctor, who just wiggled my knee around, shrugged and told me it’s what I should expect, I’m getting older, I got another doc to have a look, he did a more in-depth examination, sent me for an X-ray for confirmation, which showed osteoarthritis in two places in my knee.
    The last week or so it’s been very painful indeed, the Zapain codein tablets I’ve been prescribed have been in regular use, along with ibuprofen and Voltarol.
    That looks like the OP’s future to me, but he really should get a sympathetic doctor to look properly at it, and get an X-Ray to confirm it

    jim25
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    I’m sorry no very much the same position. When people say “go to a good physio, don’t use a bad one” well how do you know??!!

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