Knee pain advice

[Marlou]

I have recently injured my right knee when I hammered a trail with 900m of climb too enthusiastically. It appears to be a patellar tendon problem and I discovered that my injured leg is about a cm longer than my good leg! Do anyone have any experience with knee tendon problems or had to deal with leg length imbalances? I am desperate for advice as I am struggling for about 2 months now. Thanks in advance!

[Fisan]

Go see a physio / biokineticist. Not the answer you were looking for but the answer you need.

[AlanD]

This might sound strange but a chiropractor might help and the reason i say this is that i recently went to one for an assessment as i have recently had some lower back/hip/leg issues where she assessed how i walk, sit and where the muscles are tight.

 

I mentioned i was a cyclist and she said because my spine is not aligned the body compensates by making other adjustments and said i probably get some knee pain in my righy leg which i do sometimes.

 

I am going for a full assessment friday so will see what happenss but was interesting to me that issues in your spine and the muscles/nerves around it can affect other areas of your body.

 

Not saying this is your issue but something to keep in your mind.

[King_Crispy]

Pinging V12man

[PregoRoll]

Chiro for the win. 

 

Muscles and tendons never strengthen equally resulting in your back and hips being misaligned. Saw it with one of the MTN riders at the tour, looked like he was sitting very crooked on the seat. 

 

Should help with the discomfort. 

 

Have you had a proper bike set up?

[Marlou]

Chiro for the win. 

 

Muscles and tendons never strengthen equally resulting in your back and hips being misaligned. Saw it with one of the MTN riders at the tour, looked like he was sitting very crooked on the seat. 

 

Should help with the discomfort. 

 

Have you had a proper bike set up?

Hi ,no on the day of injury I was still riding with my diy setup ,which was a bad thing:(. Thanks for the advice so far guys! I will definitely make use of it!

[SwissVan]

1cm leg length discrepancy is not a train smash, it's quite common and probably not the main cause of your knee pain. Excessive climbing under a high load and low cadence could cause the tendon pain, if your seat height is to low it will increase the chance of knee pain. Is your seat height correct and set up to your short or long leg? If it's set to your short leg then it might contribute to why your longer side knee is taking strain.

 

Leg length descrepency needs to measured and confirmed properly by an expert and prefarbly by X-ray to confirm that the descrepency is an actual leg length issue (I.e. that the leg bones are different lengths) or if it is some other issue.

 

I've got a 12mm LLD and have tried shimming my cleats to correct it and after much experimenting decided the shims made no significant difference and went back to normal non shimmed cleats.

 

Best bet would be to get a expert bike fit and avoid excessive low cadence climbs (I'm ASSuming that's what you did)

 

Good luck and let us know what you do