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Runner's Knee Health Video

Last Update: October 23, 2008

Video By: LIVESTRONG.COM

Runner's knee is a very common knee soreness that happens to many runners. Learn more about what it is and how to treat it in this medical video clip.

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  • Lower your running distance
  • Strengthen your legs
  • Decrease your running frequency
  • Stretch

About this Author

Walt Lowe, M.D., specializes in sports medicine with an emphasis on diagnosing and treating a wide range of knee, shoulder and elbow injuries and disorders. He is certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and serves as the head team physician for the NFL Houston Texans, University of Houston, Houston Baptist University and many area high schools. He is also an orthopedic knee and shoulder consultant for the Houston Rockets and a consultant for NASA.Dr. Lowe is an associate professor in the department of orthopedic surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Lowe is the director of Baylor Sports Medicine Fellowship and the chief of the Sports Medicine Section.Lowe received a B.A. from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo. He received his medical degree from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. After completing an internship at John Peter Smith Hospital and a residency at Tarrant County Affiliated Hospitals in Fort Worth, Texas, Lowe completed a fellowship at the renowned Kerlan-Jobe Orthopedic Clinic in Los Angeles. While there, Lowe spent a year studying under sports medicine baseball surgeon Frank Jobe, M.D.

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Video Transcript

DR. WALT LOWE: We're here to talk about runner's knee. Runner's knee is an affliction that almost all runners have, and that it refers to a soreness or a pain that happens around the kneecap. Runner's knee implies that there are no other identifiable tear such as meniscus tears or cartilage tears in the knee. It can come from where? On the undersurface of the kneecap or it can just come from overloading of the kneecap with prolonged running, especially by upping the distances of your running too quickly or when you are running with tight quads or tight IT bands that put extra pressure across the kneecap. The treatment for runner's knee is generally to back down the distances that you are running; to decrease the amount of running and the number of days you run; to stretch the muscle groups that surround the kneecap, the quadriceps muscle, the IT band especially; and then strengthen the quadriceps and hamstring muscles. It's something that a lot of runners forget to do.

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