Anyone else has this occasional weird knee pain?

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1. Definitely chat with your doctor! They may be able to recommend a course of treatment, such as physical therapy!

2. I’ve suffered on and off with knee pain in my left leg since I was a teenager, after I injured it.

   My advice is to consider where on your knee the pain is, and give it a google. That’ll tell you more specifically what the problem is, and either what sort of stretches or exercises you need to do, or what activities you need to avoid. Literally – google “knee pain map”. Worth noting, of course, they aren’t 100% reliable. Pain can be felt in other parts of the body than where its actually being caused (I literally once had testicle pain being caused by hip problems which were being caused by knee problems!). But they can provide some level of guidance.

   For example, if the pain is felt at the bottom of the front of the knee then its potentially patellar tendonitis, also called jumper’s knee. You need to minimise impact, whilst keeping the knee active – walking, cycle, or swimming is great for this.

   Alternatively, if the pain is on the outer leg side of the back of the knee then its likely related to the hamstring. In that case, you should be reducing impacts, icing it regularly, and doing strengthening stretches for the hamstring and targeted weight exercises for other knee related muscles.

3. Yep.

   Used to get a twinge on the inside of my left knee sometimes when I’d get out of bed quickly, or walking up stairs with a heavy load.

   Then a couple of months ago, I tore my MCL doing a really benign move.

   If you’re getting the initial feeling, it could be a whole bunch of stuff, but a Physio might be able to give you some exercises to help build up the muscle around it, reducing the likelihood of injury.

4. > but am little worried, because I don’t want to continue being inactive physically because of this trauma.

   Don’t be too worried yet because there are many ways for this to go right rather than to go the way you describe.

   I had bad knee pain, ultimately got diagnosed with both arthritis and a meniscal tear, took some time off of running but did other exercises, and ultimately it just got better on its own. Not ideal, but acceptable.

   Are you making sure to warm up? Not pushing things too quickly? Not going more than a small % more each week?

5. My previous position with the department I work for had me walking 10-12k steps and 20 flights of stairs average a night. Went to my doctor for knee pain. He said “you’re over 30, get used to it. Take ibuprofen as needed”

   Edit: I will state that my knees feel so much better when I’m in the gym regularly doing heavy squats. And they felt worse after working a 16 hour shift with extra steps and stairs.

6. at 38, our bodies are deteriorating (rate depends on how healthy our lives are, eg. more likely if you’re near smokers or smoke yourself imo)

   you can baby the injury by sleeping with a pillow under the knees when on your back, and between the knees when on your side

7. Knees. Over. Toes.

   This is the answer to your problem. If it’s minor it fixes it. If you have surgery you will have to do it anyways. Learn the program, do it and never stop some maintenance.