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Interesting - did you get this on the NHS.
I skied into a tree in January and badly bruised my knee. I've not been to a doctor as all was healing ok, then it sort of stopped healing and I had knee issues when cycling, particularly if I pushed a big gear.
I think it may be a cartilage issue, but I've not got the ball rolling by going to the GP as I imagine I'll be put to the bottom of a long list "hey doctor, my knee hurts a bit when I cycle really hard". Also it is generally getting better, but then I have a bad day and think I should get this looked at. I recently also did a mega multiday mountain bike trip with loads of loaded climbing....and my knee was fine.
Can you let me know a little more about your experience (what your injury was, how you got treatment...etc.) Much appreciated!
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Back in October 2017 I had a second arthroscopy to hopefully fix the previous one in June 2016 which clearly hadn’t worked. It’s not completely fixed, but it’s much better than it was and at least I can now ride a bike again. Running is out of the equation and leaves me with a lot of pain for a few days afterwards, but I’m not too bothered about that.
So an interesting observation popped up at the weekend. Generally, when I ride any distance I get a little bit of discomfort in the joint and sometimes a bit of pain the following day, which is to be expected because there isn’t much cartilage left. I took out a basic MTB hire bike from my hotel over the weekend. I did a pretty brutal 4 hours of climbing on this bike in my running trainers on flat pedals with no toe clips. I was quite surprised that I got almost no discomfort while riding and no pain at all the next day.
There are only two things that I can think of that are different, which is the fact that I could move my feet around on the pedal and the support angle in my trainers is wedged for my running gait. I’m considering ditching my SPDs for a bit and trying flats again. I want to keep an eye on this.