About 2-3 years ago, I started to have sharp hip pains when I walked. Everything else seemed to be ok. I figured I would just run through it and it would be ok. After a few months I started to develop a pinpoint pain on the inside of my knee towards the knee cap, but not necessarily next to it. So i went to see an OS and they did some x-rays and I got an MRI. After looking at the pictures they came to the conculsion that there was no miniscus tear and that everythign looked about normal. She daignosed me with a muscle imbalance, that my quads were substantially too weak which is highly visible on my leg. The pain was typically pin-pointed but as the time went on it gradually started to be come aching from INSIDE my joint, almost like an arthritis type feeling. Meanwhile I cut down my running to about 8 miles a week from the tyical 16-17. Thats about all I ever ran thoughtout my time. The aching pain inside my knee soon got so horrible, that it would wake me up at night. So I stopped running and everything immediately went away. It wasn't until about 1 month later it flared up again, only this time I hadn't ran all. My knee feels incrediably weak as though im standing on a wobbly stilt. I had went to physical thearopy for about 3 months prior to when I stopped running and it seemed to help only minimally. So here I am a year or 2 later and I am in horrible knee pain again. I am a college student and even sitting in class I have to constantly move my leg because of the pain. It hurts the longer Ive been on it, say standing on concrete for a long period of time. I have an appt. with another OS here in about a week to see what he has to say. I do about 3 quad excercises here at home to help strengthin it but I have also had minimal results.
Can ANYONE tell me if they have had this problem, as is it a bad sign that the entire knee aches?? Anyone else had a similar problem?


Thanks, Mark.