So the MRI came back clean as to meniscus issues, no tears and it looked to be in excellent shape and plenty of padding in there. \u00a0 Also had no issues with ligaments.\u00a0 It did reveal some roughness on the rear of the kneecap, which is the presumed cause of the knee pain.\u00a0 He said that there were no hairline fractures of the kneecap, which is also a bonus.\u00a0 He said that the MRI doesn’t really give a good look at how deep the roughness was, however.\u00a0 He did say that there could also be roughness on the cartilage on the underside of the femur which could also be adding to the pain.\u00a0 He said the only real treatment is to scope it and smooth it out.<\/p>\n
However, he wants me to slowly get back into running to see if I can tolerate it and get more mileage before needing a scope.\u00a0 So, he prescribed new shoes, low miles to get back in, and nothing too fast\/long for a while.\u00a0 He suggested keeping up with the cross-training, and getting on the bike to get more exercise without the strain on the knee.\u00a0 He did say that when the pain returned, or became too much to bear, he would suggest a scope, but wants to put it off as long as possible which I think is a good plan of attack.<\/p>\n
So, what now.\u00a0 Who knows.\u00a0 I’ll be looking for a new pair of cushioning\/stability shoes.\u00a0 Thinking of sticking with the Brooks Beast which have been the most supportive, but are just so stinking heavy.\u00a0 Want to check out the new Pearl stability shoes.\u00a0 Then back to baby mileage for a while and slowly build up the distance.\u00a0 But bottom line is I’ll see you back on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So the MRI came back clean as to meniscus issues, no tears and it looked to be in excellent shape and plenty of padding in there. \u00a0 Also had no issues with ligaments.\u00a0 It did reveal some roughness on the rear of the kneecap, which is the presumed cause of the knee pain.\u00a0 He said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category--2-2-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/runningok.jankowskis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/runningok.jankowskis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/runningok.jankowskis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/runningok.jankowskis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/runningok.jankowskis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/runningok.jankowskis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/runningok.jankowskis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/runningok.jankowskis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/runningok.jankowskis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}