Comments on: crunch crunch

By: GP

GP — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 16:14:06 +0000

Greetings, sounds like a rice krispies ad going on here. but seriously, maybe a bout of ITB if there’s pain involved. Yoga would be great for that.
The crunching sound is part of knee movement, i’d just focus more on the pain aspect

If you do go back to weight training, be veeeeery careful of some of those knee exercises.

To footloose and fancy free
GP in Montana

By: david

david — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:17:01 +0000

I am going to guess it’s 1 through 6 that’s the trouble; But mostly #1. S-T-R-E-T-C-H!!!!!

By: beverly

beverly — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:11:06 +0000

Holy cow. You just have to whisper the word “knee” around a group of runners, and everyone has a story! :)

Mine don’t crunch, but they sound a bit like the rustling of the plastic bag the celery is in.

Don’t give a second thought to the grey hair. It works well for men.

By: William

William — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:29:56 +0000

Hey, yeah BOTH my knees feel like that. Its in the medial or inner part of the knee, beside the knee cap.

I feel everything from pin pricks to weird numb/cold feelings in and around the knee.

I do the VMO work like lisa mentioned to try to pull the knee into the groove again. (straight leg lifts)

So far, no change in my knees at all.

I also have to wear knee strps so I can get out an ride, but running is nearly impossible now without causing more pain in the knees.

By: TxSkatemom

TxSkatemom — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:28:02 +0000

sorry, didn’t mean to misspell your name the 2nd time — I’m married to a John with an “H” so it’s my default spelling

By: TxSkatemom

TxSkatemom — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:27:10 +0000

let’s see, my right knee crunched on command; let’s see how I compare:
1) me neither, except I never really ever stretched properly
2) me too. nothing but roads around here
3) um, what is crosstraining? does laundry count?
4) again, weights? Does a 5 year old count?
5) yep. check and check.
6) right there with you!

So, I’ve got Jon knee? At least I know what’s causing it now! And since it’s John knee, the cure must be chocolate! yippee!

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:23:23 +0000

Everone has given great advise on the crunchy knees, as far as the hair is concerned you can always dye it or pluck the grey out. Then again if you shaved it the pain of keeping the grey out by plucking wouldn’t be as bad and you wouldn’t get the tormenting comment you would if you dyed it either.

By: deene

deene — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:44:42 +0000

you need the foam roller for the dull ache and if the crunch is not painful - probably just need some lubrication as in water. i can’t help you with the senility.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:12:54 +0000

I was diagnosed with patellarfemoral dysfunction about 5 weeks ago. One of the docs I work with told me that it’s quite common. Basically, the kneecap (patella) doesn’t track in the groove as it should for me. The way to work it out? I do many, many exercises for my medial (inner) quads. The hope is that with strengthening this muscle, it will puuuulllll that patella back into the groove. Women as also suscpetible to this condition as the angle ratio from hip to knee is greater than men (good ol’ childbearing hips), so we already have a tick mark against us.

RICE always helps me. Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation. I pop 800 mgs. of Motrin before I run, stretch thoroughly ALWAYS and do my knee exercises 3-4 times per DAY EVERY DAY.

While this may not “cure” the celery sound, it certainly can’t hurt.

Email me if you’d like specifics on the exercises that I do for the medial quad.

By: Kivster

Kivster — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:05:59 +0000

Hey Jon - it was nice meeting ya in New Haven. Knees - I hear that - I have only been running for a couple of months and my left knee has been the bane of my running existence (which is a pretty big part of my life these days).

i was having pain on the lateral aspect, reproducible with pressure. I think i might have some IT band pain - so i started doing some stretches that I saw online. I actually went and found a reference from an orthopedics journal which had a picture of a stretch. things have been better since.

but who’s to say that crunching is bad - those 3 little guys from the rice krispies commercial would probably be very upset if you got rid of their cute little sounds.

but seriously, old is in the eyes of the one aging. i always compare it to feeling cold. if you go outside and it’s cold and you repeatedly tell yourself that you’re not cold - it’s amazing how you can tolerate the cold better. so too with age - but then again “I don’t want to grow up - I’m a Toys R’ Us kid!

Cya at New Haven, hopefully, next year - 20k here I come!