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SELF-ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST
Level Of Injury
Type Of Knee Pain
Strength Mobility And Balance Assessments
- Stop running: if pain level over 3/10 with daily activities (walking, stairs, etc.).
- Moderate to sever pain = Stop running and see your health care practitioner.
- Pain wakes you up at night = Stop running and see your health care
practitioner.
- Minimal activity: knee pain stops you from doing daily activities like walking.
Stop running. Get your knee checked out by doctor or physical therapist.
- Moderate activity: knee pain stops you from jogging. Stop running.
- Maximal activity: knee pain stops you from running or playing sports. Can
run short distances.
- Minimal irritability: Can tolerate a lot of activity. Pain settles down with short
periods of rest. Can run short distance.
- Moderate irritability: Can tolerate moderate activity with moderate pain
levels. Need longer rest periods for pain to settle down. Stop running.
- Maximal irritability: Minimal activity causes severe pain and takes a long time
to settle down. Stop Running. Get your knee checked out by doctor or
physical therapist.
- Patellar tendinosis can cause pain along the length of the patellar tendon.
Though pain can be anywhere along the tendon, the most common location is
the attachment site of the tendon just below the kneecap and less common at
the attachment site of the tendon on the shin (tibia).
- There is often complain of stiffness and pain in the front of the knee, which
comes with start of run, gets better once the tissue is warmed up and often gets
stiff and sore after the run.
- As the problem gets worst, pain and stiffness can be present during the run
too. In more severe and chronic cases even simpler day to day activities like
going up and down steps, walking and sit to stand can be painful.
- Often there are cracking and popping sounds with bending and
straightening of the knee.
- Stiffness and pain with movement after resting for a while. i.e. Standing up
and walking after sitting for a while is painful.
- The tendon can be swollen, thickened and very sore to touch. Patients often
present with both patellar tendinosis and PFPS.
- Cutting.
- Jumping.
- Running.
- Going up / down stairs.
- Kicking.
- Kneeling.
- Squatting.
- Swelling, thickening, stabbing or sharp pain, ache and burning along the
outside of the knee. Often its hard to point a specific area of pain and people
point to the whole outside of the knee.
- Though less common, patients also report clicking or snapping sounds with
bending and straightening of the knee, especially while walking or running.
- Symptoms usually start few minutes into the run and at the end of the run.
However, the symptoms start early and can continue throughout the run. In
severe cases, there is sharp or burning pain which can last after just a small
amount of walking.
- Can be tender to touch along the outside of the knee and even all the way
up the outer thigh to the hip. With chronic irritation the iliotibial band can get
thickening and swelling.
- Pain started over a course of few days or on a specific day after running or
bicycling.
- Sitting for long periods with the knee bent can cause pain and stiffness.
- Running, specially hill running.
- Walking up or down steps, but worst going down steps.
- Long running stride.
- Excessive running on a sloped or crowned surface can create the injury.
Running only on one side of the road will trigger it as well.
- Press down on the bottom portion of the iliotibial band along the outside of
the knee joint and 2-3 centimeters above the joint. Often tender, swollen and
thickened.
- Pain is felt in the area at the bottom of the thigh, just above the kneecap.
- Symptoms include stiffness, ache, weakness and giving out. Usually
symptoms develop slowly and are worst with higher level activities.
- Often there is swelling and thickening around the quadriceps tendon and the
stiffness is worst with long periods of rest, inactivity or when you first get up in
the morning. The tendon is sensitive or sore to touch.
- Pain and stiffness is often felt when you first start running which settles
down once the tendon warms up, but can return after the run.
- Cutting.
- Jumping.
- Running.
- Going up / down stairs.
- Kicking.
- Kneeling.
- Squatting.