03 June 2010

The Knee Injuries Club

What’s with knee injuries that have been plaguing fellow runner friends? It started with Nadia and Shaqi. Shaqi busted his knees during NB 30km if am not mistaken and Nadya suffered it long before I discovered her blog. Just recently, Yim also succumbed to one, crushing his attempt to do his first full marathon at SCKLM. And today I read about KakJune’s plight on the same injury and about Ziff’s kissing goodbye to his participation in SCKLM for the very same reason.

Truth is, I am also nursing one. I contracted this injury during an LSD run last Monday night. I did 2 loops of the Masjid Putra-PICC-Masjid Putra route. It was on the 2nd loop that I noticed there was some nagging pain at the back of my right knee joint. I couldn’t seem to stretch my stride bigger. Every time I did, my joint felt strained. And I found that I couldnt run the normal gait that I used to. My cadence were smaller and as a result it took longer time for me to complete the usual 2 loops that I normally did.

Till to date, the pain is still there even when I walk i.e at office, at home. Though it’s not something like major, sharp, stinging pain, I am worried that if I continue exerting my self with strenuous training, it will further deteriorate that I can kiss my FMV attempt bye-bye. Hence, I haven’t been running since then to rest them knees so that they can be back to their normal, natural form. Unlike the rest, I have yet to visit any sport injury specialist. The most that I did to nurse them were icing them and spraying them Salonpas spray (goodies from NB15km race). Alhamdulillah, they are doing okay though the pain is still dangling.

I googled the net and discovered the closest description of my knee injury. Most probably, the situation that I am experiencing now is called Poplietus Injury which may have been caused by overusage of poplietus muscle. It may also have been caused by poor biomechanics or movement patterns. Thank god the remedial measures do not involve operation or long rest from running. The website stated that all that one need to do is to rest from aggravating acticities that involves the affected areas and stretch the hamstrings several times a day.





The Popliteus is a small muscle located at the back of the knee joint. It is responsible for internal (medial) rotation of the Tibia (shin bone) as well as for 'unlocking' the knee joint when bending the knee from a fully extended (straightened) position. Essentially it initiates knee flexion (bending).








So it has been 3 days of non-running which has gotten me restless. The runner inside me badly twitches to sweat myself out and to get the usual dose of endorphine and runner’s high but I guess I will be deprived of those for these few days :( I guess I will only try doing a light run next Monday, hoping by then, my knees are gonna be better like brand new. InsyaAllah.

Akhir kata, Love thy body. Your body is a shrine. Worship it. Take care of it!

9 comments:

  1. oh no! not another fighter...

    get it checked, get rest, etc, and join us for the TT hahaha

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  2. wei ... i hope its nothing serious syed! you need to continue our FMV punya run for pride! rest, and ice it 3 times a day. rest means true rest lah eventhough you're twitching. dont succumb to temptation and make it worse ok. stretching will be good too. if it still persists the week after, i suggest you have it checked out pronto and dont just diss it ya.

    i will be praying for your quick recovery!

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  3. another one bite the dust? Hope not!

    Syed, rest and recover..you're flying the FMV flag now in SCKLM :-)

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  4. Don't twitch too much to get endorphines and runner's high bro. Of lately, I can only afford weekend LSD and NO weekdays run. That should be fine to make it to SCKLM. Don't worry too much. Rest those legs.

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  5. Syed, not the club that anyone wanted, kan? Rest cukup2. And get well soon, bro.

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  6. I think some of us just over exerted our body for the big day. Take a brief break and see whether the pain will bother u. If after that the pain persists than may b u shud get proper consultation about it. Dun be like me, I have let the injury to be there for more than 2 months. If i know the cause earlier, the injury shud have been treated long time ago and have shorter period of recovery.

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  7. take heed of the advises ok :) u will be fine and me and yim will be there no matter what hehe, kan yim?? dont overdo syed!!

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  8. guys - thanx for the advises and well wishes.. it has been 7 days of non running.. pain is still there but kept to its minimum.. esok nak try lari light and easy...

    ahhh.. really wish to join TT session.. was in kuantan for a family wedding. Next TT, saya mesti piley!

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  9. oh gosh.. not u too.. dia soh ko rehat sket la.. u've been running too much kot? hehe..

    pray for your speeding recovery (hopefully before SCKLM) :) eating lots of bananas and chocolate might help.

    or, do something else in between :)

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