Knee exercises

after three weeks my knee is actually starting to get better. I slowly developed a dull ache in my left knee which at first I attempted to ride off.
I had never had an injury that didn't go way by itself after a couple of days and especially one that didn't arise from a trauma. It got to the stage where I had to leave my bike at work after riding in. There was no swelling, just an ache that seemed to be at the joint surface...I got quite emotional at points, I worried that my cycling had come to a rather mediocre end. I was jealous of every cyclist I saw mashing away without giving it a second thought.

The recovery has been painfully slow but I can feel that I am making progress. The Physio thought maybe it was knee cap tracking or bruised cartilage. I still feel scared to put any kind of power down though and am attending a yoga for cyclist class tonight to work on my flexibility as recommended by the physio. Root cause of it though is almost certainly my hip, an untreated injury in Taekwondo (felt like I ripped my groin open attempting a kick) means that something is 'impinging' (I took this to mean getting trapped) in the joint, it's not really a problem for me but it means the hip doesn't have full range of motion approx. 95%) and is generally a bit tight.

I'm not really sure of the point of this post but when I was injured I trawled through the forum to find out if anyone else has experienced anything similar and how bad the news might be.

ps I can highly recommend the physio who advertised on the forum - bluerip

Thanks for the feedback, glad to hear you feel you're making progress. I'd be happy to advise on and look at any knee concerns, afterall they are the one joint that you really can't ride well without.