I play quite a bit of racquetball.  For almost 10 years, I’ve played several times a week, eventually getting good enough to get to finals in our state tournament in B division.  Unfortunately, I also apparently don’t spend enough time working on quadricep strength.  If you let your quads get weak, they don’t do a good job of holding your kneecap in place, and you can get dislocation injuries and pain.

It’s happened to me once before, and I was able to rest and restrengthen the muscles, and drove on.  Now it’s happened again.

I’m kicking myself, because the exercises to keep this from happening are easy and quick; it’s just my own laziness that left this door open again.  And if I can’t get things strengthened up, straightened out, and fully healed, I won’t be able to play in this year’s Corporate Challenge tournament.  I dropped the ball last year and didn’t get to go; I don’t want to miss it this year.

So it’s quads every morning and night until May; we’ll see how it goes from there.