Chronic inside upper knee/thigh pain

[Rockygrass]

I was relieved to find someone with the same symptoms and going through the same medical mess as me. I have been dealing with this for only a year and a half, so I guess I should consider myself lucky? I am also a female with a particuarly arched back that has the same symptoms (pain and tightness in the same areas, etc.) and tried many of the same things as you. Since you haven't posted in a while, I was hoping to get an update on what has been working for you.

[Roberts]

Hi Rockygrass, I went to see a physio in London where they treat top sports people so I figured they should be able to help me! The lady I saw checked out my knee and a few other things and decided that it seemed pretty healthy and that I shoudn't be experiencing the pain that I was. She then explained how some people when they get chronic pain their central nervous system starts to get oversensitive to pain signals and starts telling you your in pain when you shouldn't be. She thought this could be my problem and so the plan was to trick my brain into thinking that my knee is ok but just very weak, and to also try and ignore the pain, and my "homework" was to think of 3 things that made me happy everyday.

This all seemed a bit crazy to me as I have a background in science and factual stuff and thought mind stuff was all a bit weird. However I had decided that this was the last physio I was going to see so I had to commit to what she wanted me to do. And strangely it seems to be working!!!

She also stopped me from doing all physio exercises as they made my brain focus on my knee to much and the pain it was experiencing and told me to do functional exercises instead like going out on a bike, a gently walk. And arranged to do some hydrotherapy with me in their pool as the water supports the knee so it can do some weight bearing exercises better.

I was doing the exercises in a pool near home but now I have made such progress that I am able to take the dog for a walk and do stuff like shopping all in the same day and be fine the next day too! So I am just focussing on trying to build up my thigh muscles by walking and riding my bike on gentle slopes.

The pain above my knee seems to have gone but I now just have a jarring/jabbing type pain under my knee cap when I put my weight though it when my leg is bent, ie like when going up a hill. But the next day it feels fine, my main symptom is that the knee goes red and hot after a day of activity and then recovers over night.

Also I take green lipped mussel every night and that seems to calm the inflammation over night.

I hope this helps you. Let me know if you have any more questions about my injury tales!

[Roberts]

Hello everyone.
I've decided to post again as I have stopped making progress and I am stuck as to what to do again.

The muscle energy technique that helped my piriformis come out of spasm eanbles me to walk without my butt going dead but the effect seems to be limited and the glute muscle gets sore if I over do it. When it gets sore this makes my knee flare up so I assume it is still my glutes or piriformis that needs sorting. But I don't know what to do now.

The obvioius thing that is need is for my glutes to be strengthened and in turn my quads but I can't seem to make any progress.

Does anyone have any idea what I should be doing now? Are muscle energy techniques, i.e., releasing the muscle from spasm supposed to be combined with other treatment? I feel as if I am half way there to getting better.

Any comments would be highly appreciated.

[marzipan]

This is obviously a very old post so I'm not sure if you are still on here. But I found your post on Google and your problems sound similar to what I've experienced- you also seem very proactive at trying everything the medical community and alternative community can throw at you. So. If you're still on here, has there been any progress?