If you have been experiencing knee pain and you think it might be something you did, here are a few causes that can make your knee hurt.
Weighing too much.
If you weigh more than you should, everything involved in your locomotion bares that extra weight and over time, begins to become inflamed and hurts.
Imbalanced muscles.
If some of your leg muscles are a lot stronger than others, they can pull harder on your patellar tendon and cause small tears over time resulting it tendonitis.
Do you have a repetitive motion in your legs that could cause uneven muscle development? Sports activities.
The repeated stress of jumping especially with knees that are not used to this activity can cause tiny tears to form in the tendon attaching the patellar to the tibia.
This causes inflammation and pain and is where the term 'Jumpers Knee' comes from.
If any of these causes sound familiar, you may want to consider these treatments.
When I first learned that I had tendonitis patellar myself, I wasn't ready to come to terms with the fact that the recovery process was going to take so long, but the more patients I had, the better the results were.
Here are some of the steps I took.
Rest.
You may need to sit out a season or two from that basketball league your on.
(For me it was softball) and just get away from the high impact movement that irritates and inflames your knee the most.
Stretching your muscles.
Or better stated; stretching your muscles properly.
Use a hot tub, jacuzzi or whirlpool machine if you have access to them and get your tendons warmed up and limber.
Inflexible quadriceps also play a part in the strain of your patellar tendon.
Massage.
Massaging the tendon area has helped my own healing process and was suggested by my therapist.
There you have a brief rundown of some of the basic causes and treatments for tendonitis patellar.
Remember whatever you do, don't play through the pain.
This is one injury that needs attention or it will only get worse.
The sooner you feel the pain and treat the injury, the faster and better the healing process will be.