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Stoo61

Hints, tips, old wives tales on speeding up recovery from knee overuse (reducing inflamation)? Supplements, foods, topical stuff?

Taking rest, ice, compression etc as read.

I have alot of time and nothing else to do but get back on the bike ASAP. Personal experience preferred. Cheers.

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Alf0nse in reply to @Stoo61

Had a lot of knee pain, I thought from running. Claimed it must be desk position related and got my employer to pay to have it looked at.
Had loads of people look at my knees and their consensus was that they were over used and that knees have little blood flow so take ages to recover. Then they referred me to an orthotics specialist who spotted my over pronation and made me some custom footbeds.
Knee pain stopped pretty much straight away. It was the position of my foot in relation to my knee causing the stress on the joint. Not the running/cycling

It could be that.

Also squats on an incline 20° toes pointing down. Helped a little before the foot beds arrived

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Stoo61 in reply to @Alf0nse

That's a decent shout longer term. I wear shoe soles down at a weird angle, always have done. But im so can't go down that route at present.

@greeno I've just picked up a foam roller. Use it a lot at home but naturally hadn't packed one for going away....until now..

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