For about five years, I’ve had problems with my right knee. It would lock up and felt weak. The worst was when I used to teach hiphop because I had to stand on it and dance for two or three hours without a chance to sit down. I’m pretty sure the knee problems are related to my dancing.
Last year, the problem escalated. Something in the knee ‘clicked’ while I was at Sheringham. Sharp shooting pains went up my leg whenever I put weight on it. This happened for days.
And suddenly, the knee clicked again and it was back to normal.
This ‘click’ into pain, then ‘click’ back out of pain happened another two times. I eventually figured out that I could massage my knee cap (?) back into place after it shifted like this. The only thing I had to deal with, then, was a frequent grinding and clicking sensation in the knee.
Yesterday, I realised that for the past few weeks, my knee has been behaving perfectly. I think… my knee has healed due to the leg exercises I’ve been doing at the gym. Thanks to regular lunging, I now appear to have my good old knee back!
Joan, I have the same problem with my knee (or a very similar one). As a precaution, you should tape it before doing anything which might be strenuous (like… say… running the 400m at uni games). The taping is really funny as well, it is basically to keep you kneecap in place because that ensures that your knee joint ‘tracks’ properly and doesn’t put any stress on anything that shouldn’t have stress being put on it.
Except, taping badly can cause more harm than good, so get a physio to tell you how to do it.
I think I’ll just avoid doing anything strenuous 🙂