The commonest knee pain among athletes is in reality. On of the most common athletic injuries, runner's knee. The symptom is knee pain on each side of the knee. Don't worry, it potentially is not cause for a knee surgeon or doctor.

I don't like to foretell injuries for patients, especially thru the web, but if you are a sports figure that runs a lot, runner's knee is a great possibility. This injury is very common with all sorts of running sportsmen like runners, tennis players, football players, basketball players, and so on. One of running magazines polled its readers and found that twenty-three of them have had knee injuries that forestalled them from competition.

Runner's knee can happen to beginning runners. But very often, the symptoms start when you reach thirty-eight or forty miles per week. Very often, the symptoms start as you reach that threshold. One day when you're three or four miles into your run, you feel agony either on the inner or outer side of your knee.

Maybe you stop running and rest for two days. Next time you go out, you've only run two miles then the agony returns. And, it has increased in intensity. Often it's agony only during the run and infrequently it is also after the run.

Not so many years back you knee injury would need to be treated by surgery from your local knee surgeon or orthopedic specialist. This surgery was done by taking out some of the rough, inflamed cushioning material around your knee, i.e. Cartilage removal. This didn't work too well because you want that cartilage and it does not grow back. However, no knee doctor or surgeon will first suggest surgery for that today. The reason being because your knee expert knows that knee therapy is maybe the best first solution.

First aid for your knee : Ice the knee for fifteen mins after running or playing. Prepare your ice pack just before you go out to run by putting two wet towels in the freezer. After you run, wrap these towels around your knees for fifteen minutes. The agony will be numbed, and the swelling reduced. At bedtime put heat on your knees for a half hour ; employ a heating pad or warm wet towels. Don't take aspirin as it numbs and masks the agony.

Do this for two to four weeks, then if it's's not better, see your local orthopedic surgeon.