What
is Runners Knee
Runner
knee is a common sport injury among runners. As like its name as runner knee, runner tends to have such sport injury of pain in knee cap. Pain after
running happen to every runner, no matter how careful you are when running.
This kind of accidental sport injury
however can be reduces to minimal although it is no 100% to avoid runner knee.
Causes of Runner Knee
Runner
knee also known as Patellafemoral Pain Syndrome
(PFPS). Accidental trauma directly to the knee
cap like blow or fall to knee cap
is one of the causes to knee pain on the
outside of the knee. Knee pain on
the outside of the knee can be happen when we are running at a soft surface
like beach area. Some runners have the preference to run at beach sand area to
train their stamina and leg power. Misalignment arising from the runner knee will cause more stress
afterward, as the runner bodyweight are unable distribute evenly to both knee joints and calf. It will further
irritate the inside knee pain and
causing more damage. Knee pain on the
outside of the knee and misalignment is a serious sport injury and must not be ignored.
Inner
knee pain can be happen in our daily activities
like walking and climbing staircase. Overuse of our knee cap will lead to inside
knee pain syndrome. It normally happens if we walk for more than 1 hour
without interval rest. Our knee joints
will get irritated and sore. Since inner knee pain is cause by overuse of our knee cap, it is easier to take
prevention measure than any other causes of runner knee.
For the athletes like marathon runners and
sprinter, runner knee that knee pain
when running is most common sport
injury to them. Marathon runner with less
practice and not enough warm up easily felt sudden sharp pain at their knee
cap and behind knee pain after
nearing to 1 hour of running mileage. Strike by Knee pain from running, you can
feel the clicking sound while you are running. This condition tells us that our
cartilages used to support our knee
joints are worn and irritated. The cartilages are shock absorber to our knee joints and play an important role
in our mobility. Some athlete continue running
with knee pain until reach the final, however this is very dangerous.
The correct and quality sport shoe also
play important role in the causes of knee
pain from running. Flat feet runner need to buy sport shoe with arch
support. It must able to support your feet comfortably when you step down and
step up. Weak thigh muscles and without enough muscles stretching before
running also leads to knee pain when
running
.
Runner Knee Symptoms and Diagnoses
Runner knee has several symptoms which are
very obvious. Whenever you have pain
behind knee after running or certain activities which takes long timing,
most chances you are getting running
knee pain. Pain in knee cap,
pain when bending like squatting, running and sitting, swelling and bruising,
and grinding or clicking sound in the knee
joints whenever you move tell you that runner knee are stricken to you.
Every symptom has its degree of seriousness. It is best for you to seek medical
professional to check. X-ray, MRI, CT scan and radiology are common tests to
identify the running knee pain.
Knee
Pain Treatment – RICE Program
There are RICE program to alleviate and
recuperate running knee pain. RICE refers
to four steps: Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation.
1.
Rest : Try to rest as much as
possible by avoid putting weight to knee
joints to prevent further irritate the damage knee cap.
2.
Ice : To reduce the pain and swelling, and
circulate the blood. Apply ice pack to the sport injury area for 20 minutes 3
times per day.
3.
Compression : Use brace or
straps to cover the knee cap to
provide extra support and fix the knee
joints alignment.
4.
Elevation : Elevate your knee
on a pillow when you are lying or sitting.
These four steps should be able to cure running knee pain. It must be taken
care well after recovery to protect it from reoccur. If these RICE program
unable to alleviate and recuperate pain
after running, please seek for medical professional.
