Clinton Portis' Knees

[That Guy]

i've got the same thing he's got, and it definitely CAN be serious. it can turn into tendonOsis, and, if you keep running on it, it can buckle or rupture.

my knee's been bad for about 7 weeks now and it's just stopped getting worse (finally), but i haven't been running or marching on it for over a month.

tendonitis usually only lasts 7-10 days (it's an inflammation of the tissue that connects your upper and lower leg muscles, and it's right around the bottom part of your knee cap, on the front side). if that's all you have, you take naproxsyn or naprosyn (anti inflammitories) for a couple weeks and everything's cool.

going on over a year that's probably not what he has though, and if he's playing bball or some such over the offseason, that means it can't heal... and at that point, anti-inflammitories really don't do anything besides upsetting your stomach.

what i've had to do is ice it (a lot) and work heavily on thigh muscles to make up for it, while staying away from things like squats, jumping, and heavy running... getting the equivalent of shots in my knees too (they can use medicated pads and electrical current to get the same effect now).


anyways, not exactly fun times with that, and i doubt this is the last you see of it.