So I went to the PT today. I've finally had it with my knees and had to do something about the pain. Diagnosis is really tight and weak hip abductors. The PT kinda laughed at me twice. Once during an abductor strength test where he said "you're a strong guy, but your abductors are really weak". A second time when he had me hold on to his arm and do single leg "squats" to parallel. We could both hear my knees grinding away as I went up and down. For this one he said, "yeah, if you want your knees to last a while longer we'd better do something about that."
Basically, the weakness and tightness in my abductors is causing rotation which travels down my thigh into my knee, causing problems. My knee cap is then pulled out of normal position and it is scraping against the knee socket causing pain and deterioration...or something like that :) Hamstrings and quads are also tight and inflexible.
So, I have 3 stretches and 1 abductor strength exercise I need to do daily. No running for 2-3 weeks. The PT took some measurements and I have a follow up next Thursday to check progress. Once I get some flexibility back the PT said he'd take me to the gym and give me some other strengthening exercises in addition to the one he prescribed today. It's a simple 2 sets of 10 leg raise while lying on my side. He had me do them during the appointment and something that should be VERY easy was taxing...demonstrating the extreme weakness.
I'll try to be compliant, so I'm off to do my exercises before bed.
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