Injury

Drexl Spivey

Hi all,

I have posted this on "Fitness" thread but I haven t been successful (no answer) so I ll try here as well.


It seems I have a knee injurie. I am looking for advice on where to go to have a chance to fix this as quickly as possible. I don t want to pay 40 euros a docteur who s not gonna fix my problem. I already went to a dr and he gave pain killers .... My knee is still messed up.

Surely there s someone among you, martial artists, who had a injury and can recommand a good Physiotherapist. The ideal would be a physio/clinic where they actually X ray or scan the knee before giving you advice (unlike a dr speculating on what you may have ...)

I hope someone can help me. I am going to turn mad if I can t jog and kick

Dyr

You're on the right track i guess, get your doctor to send you for an x-ray and if that doesnt show up anythinhg, its possibly keyhole surgery to see whats wrong.

Speaking as someone who's knees are f***d from what a martials arts instructor considered good practice ten years ago i can say this, if youre being asked to kick air, hold deep stances etc go train somewhere else basically. many martial arts are in the stone age when it comes to safe training methods

Drexl Spivey

you are correct, I don t see the point in training hard if your joints are 10 years older than they should be.

The problem is that everything is bad for something.

Just running is bad for the knees. So what to do ...

Do you recon that kicking in the air is worst than kicking a heavy bag ?

How bad is it for the joints to puch/kick in a bag ?

BACK TO BASICS

Hi jeff
I have the same problems with the old knees!
A friend reciently recomended some suplements MMS combat ran an article on the stuff recioently. Personaly it worked for me there was mention of collidial minerals and silver too, all of which are available from your local healyh store. you could get a letter from your doc to see Ray Moran a very good surgeon , he did both of my knes and they took a while to come right but I am back on track and almost pain free.

best of luck
pj

Colm_OReilly

Hi Jeff,

I do Sports Injuries as part of my degree course, and my lecturer is the head of physiotherapy at UCD. Also my bro's a physio so this is where my advice is coming from.

X-Rays and Scans are rarely used in a clinical setting, as X-Rays are used predominantly to investiage bone damage. More than likely, you're injury is to do with tendons or cartelage surrounding the knee joint. What a physio will do, or should do, is ask for all your symptoms i.e when it is sore, what aggrevates the injury, any treatment you've tried so far to date and how you've responded to it.

He should then test your movement along a range of plains and axis, testing where it's painful or you're unable to move it. Afterwards a tactile scan will be carried out to test for tenderness. Note: A good physio will start well away from the painful area you point out. This is to examin for secondary injuries and to test if the locus of pain is actually the damaged area.

If you can, I'd recommend you head to the O'Neill's sports injury clinic in UCD. They've a good track record with injuries.

Hope you have a speedy recovery.
Colm