Knee injury or Patellar tendinitis?

guest — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:19:53 GMT

Hello all.

I have been running for about 2 years now and have been running races for about a year and have never had problems with my knee. I was on my last 12 mile training run for a upcoming half marathon and around mile 8 my knee started to have a little twinge of pain. By mile 9 I was done, only able to walk home. There was no sounds of popping nor did it feel like it was grinding together, there is also no swelling. The sharp pain location is on the outside of my right knee slightly below the knee cap. I took the week off from running and by the time my half came I felt good and gave it a whirl. Half was going well, no pain at all for the first 4 miles and then the twinge started again. At mile 7 I pulled out of the race. I saw a ortho doc a week after this happened and he did x-rays and found nothing wrong. He wants to hold off on the MRI and has said it is most likely a injury from over usage. I took 3 weeks off at his request and did nothing as far as exercise goes. I got the all clear to try and run yesterday and it didn't go well. The first mile felt really good, no pain at all. Shortly after mile 1 the twinge started and a few minutes later it was back to being a very sharp pain. I'f I had some sort of tear, wouldn't that hurt as soon as I tried to run? I am finding it odd that I can still run say 1 plus miles before any sort of pain starts. But once it starts, there is no trying to run through it. I attempted that during my half and as the miles went on it got progressively worse. After my half it would get better with each passing day and going down steps was/is the only thing that seems to bother it from time to time. It doesn't happen everytime I do steps. I was thinking about getting the jumpers knee band to see if perhaps it is more of a tendinitis issue. I have properly fitted shoes and have run in the same brand of shoes for well over a year. I buy new shoes every 3-4 months and do plenty of streching pre and post runs. This issue started about 5 weeks ago.

Any advice/thoughts on this is greatly appreciated! I'd love to try other things before scheduling my MRI.

Thanks!

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Knee injury or Patellar tendinitis?