Apr 2
So after two days of getting serious about the strengthening exercises and wrapping my knee, the pain is almost completely gone. I’m still going to keep this up for at least a couple of weeks, but I’m pretty amazed at how quickly I’m bouncing back now that I put some effort into figuring out the right way to go about taking care of my injury.
Corporate Challenge here I come!
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.
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