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Originally Posted by Tejas
I've been suffering from patellar tendonitis and have seen an orthopedist. One of the things he said is do not do any leg work that has your feet off the floor or a platform. Thus, do not do leg extensions.
I have the problem in only one knee and i wear a small band under the patella and that helps. You can find them in a drug store, and perhaps sports stores. They are made for patellar tendonitis, or jumper's knee, or Osgood Schlatter's. It's just a simple band but it helps me a lot.
You might consider that your quads may be much stronger than your hamstrings and that is bothering your knees. If that were true, you'd want to strengthen your hamstrings.
Sometimes the elliptical bothers my knee and sometimes not. Check your posture. Have you tried the recumbent bike? That does not hurt my knee.
That's a really good idea about getting some sort of knee band. I might try that. Actually, I wasn't thinking about this before but I am flat footed (and probably should be wearing arch supports...) could that be at all related to my knee problem now?
How could I strenthen my hamstrings without bother my knees? Any exercise suggestions (I could definitely see this as a possibility too because I have pretty strong quads).
We don't have a recumbent bike at our gym...
We have just the normal bikes, treadmills, an elliptical, and the pool.