hey!
i have a friend who loves to run on the treadmill, but she has knee pain, only on her right knee...
do you have any suggestions?
i have told her to give running up for a while, and to do light cardio on the bike and to do some light leg exercises...anyways...i need some feedback from others
thankZ
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Thread: knee pain due to treadmill!!!!!
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11-27-2002, 08:02 PM #1
knee pain due to treadmill!!!!!
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11-27-2002, 08:22 PM #2
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Re: knee pain due to treadmill!!!!!
Originally posted by TheGuy98
hey!
I have a friend who loves to run on the treadmill, but she has knee pain, only on her right knee...
do you have any suggestions?
I have told her to give running up for a while, and to do light cardio on the bike and to do some light leg exercises...anyways...i need some feedback from others
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11-28-2002, 07:42 AM #3
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11-28-2002, 10:10 AM #4
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Originally posted by TheGuy98
thx...
i told her that but she's stubborn...
She can take pride in that fact as she limps around for the rest of her life!Last edited by MiloMan; 11-28-2002 at 10:14 AM.
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11-28-2002, 01:18 PM #5
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11-28-2002, 07:25 PM #6
The bottom line: if an exercise hurts your joint, you shouldn't be doing it. Some discomfort is OK to work through (e.g. squeezing one last good rep out of your fatigued muscles). Joint pain is not. If she insists on continuing to run with a bad knee, all she'll do is make it worse.
I was starting to get knee pain a while back, so I stopped doing weighted leg workouts for three weeks or so (keeping up with my upper body, of course). When I went back, I learned to do front squats, as I could go ass to the grass with those and not feel any discomfort in my knees at all. I basically started over, using only the bar at first and working my way back up. I stopped running, too, switching over to the Stepmill (a.k.a. the stairway to hell). It's very easy to get a difficult, intense workout on this gizmo, and it's very low-impact as well.
I haven't taken up running again, but my knee pain is gone. (Well, I might get a random owie every now and then, but that's much better than feeling slight pain every time I went down the stairs.)
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11-28-2002, 11:31 PM #7
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11-29-2002, 10:39 AM #8
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I also have some pain in my knees when running on the tredmil but the real problem are my shins
This started recently after the last 2 months of squating real heavy. I also feel this pain in my shins after squatting.
It irritates me so much, that some days i just tell myself that I will squat 230 all the time and never go heavy !
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11-29-2002, 12:13 PM #9
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11-29-2002, 05:32 PM #10
She should give up running for now, and definitely work on strengthening the knee support. I suggest full squats(light if need be), leg extensions, curls, and calf raises with the goal of increasing strength signifigantly. Once the support structure is strong, the knee is much less likely to get out of alignment and cause damage/pain.
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