Hot new PT tip: Don't be a dumbazz

[HueyCobra8151]

I just learned a "life lesson" about running (and possibly growing older?)

If you have pain in your knee, don't go run 7 miles and try and "work it out."

As soon as I got back from the run, literally the instant I stopped running, my knee tightened up, and in about 10 minutes I couldn't walk at all. Now I have spent the past two days hobbling around like a jackazz.

I guess I am just a thick-headed Jarhead. Now I look back thinking "Man, I was an idiot." But at the time I was thinking "I'll just run through this, no problem."

Anyway, learn from my mistakes! If something hurts, let it rest, and then ease back into running.

...Maybe if I was still 17 I could have gotten away with this.

 

[KBayDog]

And now that you're 18, you cannot get away with anything.

While you are recovering, try some low- to non-impact aerobics, such as elliptical machines, bikes, rowing, etc.

 

[HueyCobra8151]

lol, I'm a geezer at 21 I need a backbrace and a cane.

Copy on the non-impact stuff, Sir. I figure I will hit the pool for a bit.