Adek

adrian knight

Hi

I have suffered knee pain behind left knee after getting back on bike after an 18 mth lay-off with lower back injury. I foolishly raced once with the knee injury and have never been able to ride properly again (13 yrs).

Symptoms

• I can't pull on the pedal without incurring a very intense ache behind the knee and deep inside the top of the calf (inner).
• This pain usually doesn't come on immediately but after a couple hours after I have stopped and can last days/weeks with varying degrees of intensity (in fact it never really goes away).
• I also cannot curl my leg when laid on my front without an increasing pulling sensation down my inside calf and the feeling of 'twanging' hamstring tendons just above the back of my knee.
• I have a soft swelling just above the crook of my knee that isn't apparent on the other. The size increases with exercise and the hamstring tendon next to it (the one that twangs) can become very sore (but eases with massage)
• I tore my hamstring when the 18 mth lay-off was in force and this does feel weaker than the right. Don't know if this is important

Sorry for all the symptoms but the docs/Physios can't find anything wrong and an MRI shows nothing although it did show a meniscus tear that has been repaired..

Has anyone suffered from any of these symptoms and were you diagnosed and treated correctly?