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2004/07/12, 02:27 PM
Ok, I played soccer professionally for 8 years and played soccer all through my youth for a grand total of 22 years. Ive never had an injury to speak of. After a 3 year break, Ive started playing again. My knees have started giving me problems. I believe its my LCL's. They started acting up at the exact same time. I can run fine with no pain, and there is no restriction of movement. It only hurts when I cut, and when I stop abruptly. I ice them after games and take an Advil once a day. Advil completely eliminates the pain for about 8 hours.
My question is: Is this just because Im out of soccer shape? Is this something that will be cronic that I will have to deal with forever? Will it subside the more I play?
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2004/07/13, 08:09 AM
check with a sports medicine specialist. It may be you need to ease back into it, it may just be that they are worn out from your previous years.
Do you wear a brace to give some side-to-side support?
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\"Achieving worthwhile goals requires a consistent investment of time and effort on your part....The rewards you receive will be in direct proportion to the consistent effort you put forth.\"
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2004/07/13, 09:55 AM
It may be that because you havent trained/played for so long that the muscles that help to keep your knee supported may be a little weak at the moment,as well as after playing a sport for so long your bound to get some kind of wear and tear on your body. If i was you i start doing some form of resistacne training of my quads an hamstrings. Id also go and consult a Dr or physio or similar person. You may have torn some cartilage of simply bruised your bones(yeah i did say bruised bones,haha.Its hard to see how, but it does happen). Often the dr may get you to have an MRI or a scan of some sort so that they can see exactly what is going on inside of your knee and rule out some possibilities. I have just had a knee reconstruction so ive had my fair share of knee probs and understand how much a pain in the knee can affect your whole lifestyle. best of luck with it and hope that everything gets better.
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