Hello everyone,
I am looking for some advice regarding my knee. I will begin with a short of a summation of my situation. I am a 34 year old woman and I am over weight. For the past year, I have been trying to change this and get healthy. I started running when I was very overweight. I ran for about 5-6 months without incident. I then began a regimen called "power 90". This is a strength training/cardio/yoga program. I did this 6 days a week for 3 months. I lost 30 lbs. I was feeling great. I progressed to the power 90 masters series, a more advanced version of the program. I was doing great, feeling great until I got cocky and was attempting more advance moves than I was capable of. I ended up with bursitis in my right knee. I ceased activity for 2 weeks, than began easy--low impact activity. My knee healed and just as I was resuming my program, my left knee started to behave oddly. It started "popping" lightly with each step, mistracking. (There was no traumatic injury) I do not have health insurance and the "pain" is not significant. It is just annoying and there is a dull ache in my quad and knee. The popping would cease for about an hour after stretching/working out then it would resume. This has been going on for a week and half now. I feel a small muscle knot on the left top of my knee cap. I have read a lot of online resources. Some say parts of your quad are weak if this happens. Others report that the muscles could be too strong/over worked and thus shortening and pulling knee out of place. I have been doing stretches of the quad muscles individually to try and identify the culprit to no avail. Anyone out there have useful advice? I do not want to discontinue my journey to health and this is lowering my spirits to have this knee discomfort. I'd appreciate any help you all may be able to give. Thank you, E
