Arthritis

Advantage of a small country. Urgent can be MRI in a few days, mine is in two weeks.

Cycling is still fine, hiking seems okay but we're really only talking a couple of hours in the forests rather than all day across rough terrain. Ironically, day to day life is the bit where it hurts.

I think I'll have to get a decent knee support. It was instability at certain times (like shifting a heavy box) that made me think something was wrong even before the pain

I can generally run okay (despite being quite unfit) as long as my knee tracks broadly up and down. It’s twisting and rolling that does me in.

Think my cricket career is over.

I’d find a good instructor. Do an introductory course. Then keep going. I can’t see what i am doing or know exactly how I am aligned. I have been practicing yoga for nearly twenty years and am a qualified instructor. I still go to at least one class a week for correction and improvement.

My background is Iyengar yoga, it’s very slow and thorough and the aim is to adapt the practice to the individual not have everyone do exactly the same version of poses because we are all different with different propositions, flexibility, strengths and weaknesses.

I would not advise trying to learn solely from a book or video.

It’s ok. As long as I manage it life is ok.

Recently had some detritus floating in my knee but gently kept it in motion and it has been ground down and disappeared.

Cold wet days I can really feel the grating in my knees but it’s all manageable.

I'll look up some 1 on 1 yoga classes around here to get some basics dialled in I think to help with movement range

Had the MRI and got the results. Good news and bad news... no arthritis (yet, but it's definitely coming) but a ruptured meniscus. Off to see a surgeon next.