Rehabing a small knee injury??

[Prime Rib]

About 2 1/2 months ago, while doing some heavy weight on the leg press machine I somehow sprained the tendons or something around my knee pretty good. It's not internal, kinda like on the outside perimeter of my knee. If I bend my leg, I can feel pressure on the outskirts of it. I am not comfortable doing squats or deads with this injury, and i'd really like to start them soon.

I gave it over a month and it started feeling better. Went back to the gym and tried some more leg presses, same shit came back just as bad as the first time....

Any ideads on how to help speed up recovery on a knee injury? TIA


Josh

 

[tbone1227]

First thing I would say is to visit an orthopedic surgeon is you havent already done so - so they can make an assesment and probably tell you whats really going on - you may have already did that, im not sure. I can tell you that a little over 18 monts ago, I broke my leg in 2 places, tore the acl, mcl, tendons, and ligaments in my knee in a moto-cross accident and after surgery started rehabbing it, then slowly started getting back into the weights - I also started taking 1-AD to try to strengthen it even more and its working out pretty good, no real major pain, cant squat but can do all of the other lifts, i have almost 2 more weeks left on the cycle. But back to your original question, and you need to make sure what the problem is, then slowly rehab it on a stationary bike and do some coordination excesrcises to slowly get it back to where it was - and you should probably stay away from doing lifts on it until it feels much better or your just asking for more problems.