Okay, I'm going to hand the controls over to all of you.
As I've said a number of times, as I move farther away from my knee pain days, and as I exhaust new subjects to write about, and also -- frankly -- as I find myself increasingly strapped for time, I am writing shorter and also letting all of you talk among yourselves more often.
At this point, turning over the comment section to readers and letting you discuss issues that you're having, with people chiming in to suggest ideas, is probably most valuable.
So here's a question to get everyone started (or feel free to ignore this suggestion, and just talk about whatever you want to!): What's the discovery you've come across, say in the last five or six months, that has you the most excited when it comes to healing your knees?
It could be a scientific discovery. Or if you want to broaden the topic a bit, it could be an article you came across or a personal story you read about a knee pain sufferer who tried something that worked that you think may work for you too.
Anyway, open comment forum, so everyone's welcome to share their thoughts on anything!
Cheers, and I hope everyone is doing well in the new year.
It may sound corny, but your book is what excited me the most. Until then I had been through many doctors who have no idea how this type of problem works, much less believe that it has a cure.
ReplyDeleteThe study on the cartilage of rabbits is also sensational, sharing the second place with a presentation I watched from Dr. Dye (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLisqHx8sM).
p.s .: I usually sleep on my stomach and lately I have woken up with knee pain. Has anyone here been through this?
Back when my knee was bad, sleeping on my stomach would be unthinkable. Way too much pressure on my knee cap!
DeleteOkay, and I in no way paid you to post that, Bruno! ;) Seriously, glad you found it worthwhile. Doug Kelsey's 90 Day Knee Arthritis Remedy is a good one, FYI, if you're looking for exercises.
DeleteAs someone on the “doing great” side of my knee pain saga, I’ll say that listening to my knees and realistically adjusting has been my main win in the last six months. I was going swing dancing several several days per week and my knees were sending out tiny signals that they were feeling grumpy. So. I listened. I did NOT just power through and say “it will be fine.” I don’t want the small grumpy signals to lead into a full-on flare up like in the past!! So!! I made a rule for myself that I should not swing dance two days in a row. One night of swing dancing followed by ideally 48 hours of less intense movement.
ReplyDeleteI’ve also still maintained my swimming which I credit with getting me to this healed state. I feel that it is important to keep the swimming as a way to maintain a baseline of knee health so that I can do things like swing dancing.
Now that I am doing so much better, there’s actually more I can do, too, to get my knees to an even better place. For example, I can do light Road biking to build up strength. But. Once again.. I know I need to listen to my knees and adjust before any teeny tiny warning signs flare into a full on set-back.
I have had chronic knee pain for a long time. I had my left knee replaced a year ago and have at least one meniscus tear in my right knee. I love your book and I am working hard (or easy at the case my be) to follow your recommendations. So far, I think the results are as good as can be expected and I am doing much better.
ReplyDeleteI have a different questions. I have osteoarthritis in both wrists which seems like a similar problem. I have run into a dead end as to what to do other than suck it up. Do you have any suggestions?
I'm not really acquainted with wrist exercises, but you might find some if you Google around. I would think that an exercise where you rotate the wrist gently in a circle, using as much range of motion as you can without pain/discomfort, might be useful. But I'm just spitballing here! Nothing I really know much about, sorry.
DeleteMy name is Daniel Lins i am from Brazil
ReplyDeleteI am not a english speaker. I am working on it!
Long before my knee had started flare up like crazy and absolutely the same way of Richard`s knee in his book, i noticed when running or biking that the things goes worse when i was taking omeprazole for a long period. That´s a important clue!
Curiously when i was taking multivitamin supplements seemed that the lubrification was ok!
I had the same feeling when using creatine.Lack of lubrication inside my knee.
My thesis is that year and years on Omeprazole may have prevented the input of essential minerals for a healthy cartilage and a good synovial fluid!
Fortunately, an accidental episode, drive me again torward that thesis. My mother had her gallbladder surgical removed. After that she started to suffer some problems like loose stools. Reading about that i found people with the same problem that solved it using digestives enzymes.So I bought one bottle of digestive enzymes for my mother. She did not like it and stored the bottle in a closet.
Reading about digestive enzyme and its potential for mass gain i decided to use that expensive and forgotten bottle of enzymes!
What i noticed was unbelievable improvement on my knee problems and back problems.
My Gosh, i`ve spant tons of money in supplement for knee and i found something usefull in a supplement for people with gallbladder removed.
Looking in the section of reviews of the shop where i bought the enzymes i found numerous cases like mine.