Been fighting with a knee injury for years now also. Deca does seem to help, would love to try some igf but gotta work it in to the budget. I stretch alot for my martial art classes and it helps a bit but I still get that burning pain under my left knee cap. Good luck brother. Keep us posted.
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Hey brother, I am the other side of two knee operations last year and on the slow recovery road. If your kneecaps (patella) is misaligned then steroids are just going to continue making the muscle imbalance worse, if it is that. With your description I'd recommend an MRI to check the condition of the joint, followed by a patellofemoral tracking CT scan which shows patella tilt and location. Then you can work out with an orthopaedic surgeon if it is fixed with surgery or physio. Every physio I've been to in the past year isn't worth 2c. They all say to do the same exercises and just don't seem specialize. Good luck and any questions please ask, I'll be happy to help where I can.
Just saw the rest of your questions workingman
To address them breifly:
# from what I've learned and through conversations with surgeons once cartilage degeneration starts its irreversible. Damage that's done cant be undone. Though there have been some promising signs from stem cell therapy, and some drs will push for it, it still in early stages to twll of its hype or not. Best way to know is to try it. And it aint cheap unfortunately.
# as for tissue regeneration, it definitely occurs. Not sure what the rate is for cartilage and other joint tissue, but it seems that it only regenerates back to the same damaged state or worse. Basically the damage occurs at a rate faster than its regeneration. They actually do have technology that targets bone healing from fractures that accelerates the process. But unfortunately the biology of cartilage and bone is very different. The bone healing process is very well understood where as they dont even know what the cartilage healing process is and if it exists. Making it harder to target. That said its safe to say billions of $$$ in research is being poured into it. Everyone ends up with at least one bad knee, theres too much money to be made. So they wont stop the research any time soon.
As for your last question, i have no idea. Google would know better than me for that one lol
A good physio is hard to find, when you finally find a good one you will know pretty quickly with the fact they wont be doing the same old stretches and exercise, they will be more targeted and specific to your needs and they will give you a thorough assessment. Them the results flow from there if there is anything they can do.Originally Posted by justlikemusic
First ive heard of patello femoral CT tracking, will look into it and see if its available locally
get the MRi then let us know. If you choose not to then icing and stretching is probably the next best thing. your lean so that helps the joints overall. It sounds like you have a meniscus problem, but both knees hurting equally rules that out. you could have impingement of the knee?
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