basketball hyperextended knee

[00seven]

I landed awkwardly after jumping for a rebound while playing basketball on saturday and hyperextended my knee. I felt a little pain when it happened, but after 20-30 seconds was able to continue playing basketball for another hour. All day saturday I felt a little pain (an awareness) nothing to prevent me from walking, so I wore a knee brace for support, took a voltaren, glucosomine/chondroitin, and fish oil. I workout regularly, mondays are my leg day, this is the first time I've hyperextended my knee, so I dont know how serious to treat this. I plan to push my leg workout to later in the week, dont do any cardio, and see how it feels. Anyone else had this problem and can share their experiance?

[00seven]

Bump...

So I did go to the gym today, did chest instead of legs, also did 20 minutes of cardio on the eliptical with little resistance. I don't have any pain, just an awareness that my knee is not normal, if there is swelling, it's light because it's hard to see. I don't know how serious to treat this, I am not going to play basketball for at least two weeks, but I still want to work out, and depending on how it feels by friday, I hope to do a leg workout focusing on hamstrings... I need some advice before I do any critical damage...

[Logical95]

hmm hyperextended knees are funny.....basicallly its just another term for a sprain....although sprains can be different grades (1, 2, 3) it depends how badly you did it.....seems like yours isnt too bad though.....

I would lay off the heavy leg stuff this week, take some advil/anti-inflammatories and the glucosamine/chondroitin.....
I also have had great results with Cissus....stuff is amazing.....

Should be better in a week or two.....

You dont wanna get back into something as high impact as basketball too quickly or you will risk injuring it again if its not fully healed.....

[00seven]

thanks for the advice bro.

I truly appreciate it!