i've had some knee pain post-running and decided to get it checked out by a doctor (completely independent of martial arts - TKD class does not cause knee pain for me. i decided to finally see the doctor bc i leave for basic in less than a month and a half). i described everything to a physiatrist, who ordered an mri to see what exactly was going on. after doing the mri, i received the good news that there are no tears in my meniscus tendon or acl. however, there is an issue with my kneecap -- what i have is a bipartite patella. people with normal kneecaps have two horizontal sections of their kneecap, and they are fused together vertically in early childhood. mine didn't fully fuse. so now i have a prescription for p.t., which should get everything into place and make the post-run soreness go away.
oh, and for the m.r.i. they injected saline solution into my kneecap. they did this to intentionally swell the joint so that they could see all the different parts more clearly. so now my knee is all puffy and i can barely bend it.
needless to say, i have to skip tae kwon do tonight. :(
*update 08/28/10*
today i can barely walk bc of soreness at the saline injection sites, and i can only bend my knee about 30% of its normal range because it's still filled with saline solution. hopefully tomorrow when i wake up it will be back to normal and i can go running. we'll see...
*update 08/29/10*
i now have more range, but there's still excess saline in the joint, so i can't fully flex my knee. also the various injection sites are still sore to the touch (the stupid radiologist pricked my knee like 8 or 9 times!).
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