Injured Knee on the Mend

[carpenter]

I hurt/strained my right knee 18 months ago doing wind sprints. Two doctors and a physio guy told me I would need an repairative surgery. I chose to tough it out try to rehabilitate it myself using leg extensions, lunges and hack squats. I'm too young to be this old-school

One or all of these exercises just made it worse. So I tryed stretching-a lot of whole body stretching. This seemed to irritate my knee more, maybe made the area more prone to strain injury?

I read an article in one of the magazines on rehabing knees and it boiled down to a 10min bike warm-up and 2 or three sets of whatever didn't hurt. I've always loved to squat, so it's been 4 months and I've already passed my pre-injury maxes.

That is until I read a thread in here on squatting @$$ to the grass. Let's just say I'm thankful the gym wasn't busy and I was in a rack. And Man, the next day !!!

As sore as my quads and glutes were, the knee felt almost lubricated. It's a funny joint for sure, but I'd recommend this form of squat to any one as long as your warmup is adequate and you don't overplate.

be strong..

 

[Fausto]

Funny you should mention that! The darn doctors that suggest surgery should use people like you or others before going to the knife!

Here's an interesting article.

 

[Spyke]

I have been fighting a bad back for years. 2 years ago I couldn't even walk 100 feet ithout my entire leg going numb. I went to the chiropractor and that just made things worse.

So I started working out and added squats very slowly. I have increased my 5rm by 75% and the back feels good. I think there are alot of surgeries that could be prevented if the patient was actually willing to bust his @$$ in rehabbing it.

 

[carpenter]

Fausto:

That's a great article. Had some nagging injuries yourself?

 

[Fausto]

carp

Yep, to name a few:

Shoulders - a couple of times, latest one last night due to J-reps on the peck-deck, too fast and joint gets out of place due to stopping mid-way.

Besides this, during bench a few times, an old one due to lack of warming up - culprit cable reverse rows.

Lower back, I found that doing the @$$ to the grass squat felt good but it started hurting my lower back, to add to this the full deadlift was compounding the problem, culprits - both lack of form and too much weight, have since then returned and back feels good.

Ah, last but not least, tennis-elbow due to heavy curls (50 kgs) with straight bar, have been managing this one by mostly dropping curls out of the program, still use them as metabolic stress inducers - a la vicious!

Here's a pic of the culprit!

 

[carpenter]

That sounds like a Jackie Chan interview I heard a few years ago.
When asked about his injuries from doing his own stunts, he replied "shoulder, shoulder, knee, arm, knee, wrist, leg, leg, arm..."

Hopefully we learn a little from our mistakes. But it sure is amazing what a lack of warm-up or a little extra pride will do to you!

 

[Fausto]

Quote[/b] ]That sounds like a Jackie Chan interview I heard a few years ago.

Yeah, us crazy muscle heads

However I don't think I am as nuts as Jacky he is beyond cure

Yeah, a little slowing down is needed where our ego's are concerned, they tend to get us hurt!

Fun answer, dude! I like that!