Needly lateral pain on knee (Read 348 times)

She-Rah

posted: 2/27/2008 at 12:00 AM

Hi there - Does anyone know what might be causing a needly lateral pain - just outside of the knee. I'm thinking it's my IT band. I seem to get the pain when I try to do any decent mileage. It came when I did ~ 35 K a couple of months ago (running/walking; after not much mileage) and cleared up in a few days with rest. Yesterday I skate skied ~9 miles (after I hadn't done much mileage) and it hurt today. It's starting to clear up now tho'. It's bumming me out because I want to start building mileage but I'm too smart to run or ski when it's bugging me. What can I do? I try to stretch the IT with a side bend - standing stretch altho' it doesn't feel like it does much. I also have The Stick but am not religious with it. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Undecided

hoodlumofmercy

posted: 2/28/2008 at 10:34 PM

I've had the same thing occur. Sharp pain that seemed focused. It started when running and continued, or sometimes started after running. For me it usually kicked in after 2 miles. At the time the only place I could run were the streets - crowned asphalt - in my neighborhood. I did ITB stretches lightly before running, then longer after running, then also before I went to bed. Not sure if it's related, but at the time I was also pronating heavily. Which led to other problems. IMO the crowned roads I ran on after I moved to that neighborhood correlated with my knee pain. I ran for years before that on asphalt with no problem. The combination of the road surface and a lifetime of pronation (and age) finally took it's toll.