little help with a leg injury?

[habashneh]

I would definitely encourage you to seek professional help to explore the condition of your hamstring and knee joint.
A tight hamsting (subjected to an overstretch) may lead to posterior knee pain around the area you descrbing. When stretching the hamstring do they feel the same on both sides or do you feel the stretch earlier on the affected side?

[garjagan]

Actually, just to be awkward, I have to say that the unaffected side is less flexible - but I think (maybe) that is a long running condition. Although I have spent years surfing, skateboarding, bmxing/mtbing and just generally treating my body like a crash-test dummy! I do also wonder about the effect cycling has on the body as on a bike the right leg has to do more work because it is directly engaging the drivechain and creating the large part of the power. When I was racing not long ago I was behind a very fit looking rider, but I was amazed to see that his right leg muscles were noticably larger that his left, almost like atrophy had set on on left leg. I guess in terms of a symmetrical workout running or something which distributes the load evenly is better.

And thanks for the general advice alopyhsio. As for getting people to see a private physio, I sometimes think the average person with a niggling injury is like a drug addict, they can get all the advice they want but ultimately, it's their decision which gets the ball moving. Plus, I think most people are in fear of being told what's wrong with them - full stop - let alone with the thought that they'll have to pay to recieve the ominous write-up of their ailment!