Signs your getting old?
Signs your getting old?
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My left knee has been occasionally slightly gammy for about two decades now - I remember it'd occasionally feel like it was going to 'give' when going up the four stories to the first flat I lived in in London. It's never been a major problem, just something to pay attention to.
Not sure what's changed these last couple of days, but it twinges like a motherfucker when I strain much weight on it all, as in climbing stairs or clambering over something.
I could barely make it up and then down two small flights of stairs at a local railway station on my way in to work today :\
Just put a shotgun to the back of my head and and render me into glue.
- I've had bad knees for years. Went to NHS physio and they basically said that my leg muscles weren't strong enough to do what I was asking them toFax_Benson
- (cycle, play 5-a-side badly, ascend stairs. ). Gave me some resistance band exercises to develop actual muscles. Pretty much sorted it.Fax_Benson
- Yeah, I was thinking I'm missing out some sort of exercise although I walk about an hour and a half a day. Perhaps that's too much for an old codger?Nairn
- Let physio troubleshoot your leg, there's tons in there you don't know and you might just need to strengthen a specific group of muscles for balance.zarkonite
- I was putting all my weight through my knee joints rather than my puny thigh muscles. Now I bound up stairs like a very slightly younger man.Fax_Benson
- So, this is not a solution, but I just walked in 40+ minutes to work, including stairs, after a cider and a joint and I literally did not have a single twinge.Nairn
- Either that's subdued synpeses somewhere, or my body just not giving a shit and overcompensating for something in my gait somehow. I suspect latter.Nairn
- ..or alcohol is taking its toll on my body and I just don't notice when not encumbered.
I suspect the latter.Nairn - * 'not overcompensating'Nairn