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[raveness_d]

Strained knee with a possible miniscal injury and sciatica.

This is why I'm awake at 5:30 am.

Treatment? Ice, motrin, Tylenol and about 6 weeks... fffffuuuuuuu...

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[sacramentalist]

:(

It's the dancing barefoot, isn't it? Too much torsion in those twists? Some strange music draws you in and makes you come on like some heroine (excuse me as I never get to quote my favourite Patti Smith tune)

If I may be so bold: avoid massaging the injured area. You can stretch and massage the supporting muscles, but not that one until the inflammation is done. Maybe get one of those knee elastics?

Believe me when I say I know it's hard not to, but try to not let it get you down. It's only a short-term thing.

[raveness_d]

She actually mentioned that it was probably rehearsing on uneven ground and I may have wrenched myself without realizing during a spin.
I've been wearing a tensor about 70% of the time, when I can straighten my leg enough to get it on. I think what's worse than the knee itself is the muscle spasms throughout that make my foot into a claw and wake me up in the night. Epic Charlie horses of doom.
I'll try massaging the thigh when that happens next.

Thanks for the ideas.and well wishes. I'm really unaccustomed to not being able to do much of anything.
When I said to the Dr. that I don't ever get injured, so it's all very alien to me, she said: "Well, you ARE 32..."

Is that how it is? Maybe I should order a hip replacement and walker for my 33rd birthday.

[sacramentalist]

Spasms? Oh man, you have my back in my knee. So I'm just repeating what I was told. Don't heat or massage the site until the inflammation is gone.

[raveness_d]

Yeesh. Heat has been the only thing to help. :(
Ok, no more heat.