did anyone ever get a knee injury from swimming??

Question

its been lik 2months nd ive had dis really bad knee from swimming breastroke. i know its very common for competitive swimmers!! do u kno anythin i can do to make it better??

Answer 1

first, how old are you? you may have a growing condition called Osgood-Schlatters. hard to say without knowing what your symptoms are. the most common sign is a small "bump" will form just below your knee cap. I had it as a 12-13 year old swimming breaststroke. swam all summer with it, even went to Senior Nationals with it. it is generally considered a "growing pain" type disease and is not debilitating long term, but the ONLY treatment is rest. i was placed in a cast for 6-weeks because i wouldn't stop swimming long enough for it to heal.

Answer 2

My most serious knee injury came from basketball, skiing and soccer. I was actually told to use swimming as rehab, which was nice. I did get a knee injury from swimming though as well. I was at practice and did a flip turn and when my feet hit the wall my knee cap popped out, I pushed off the wall before I knew what was up and the thing popped back into place pinching a nerve underneath! The world spun and the pain was amazingly awful. I had to see a doctor and it was not fun but I was back in the pool in a few weeks.

I say any injury that causes pain for more than 3 days should be reported to your coach and then your docotr. The last thing you want to do is aggrivate it more and worsen the injury to the point where you can no longer swim.

Good luck and feel better!

Answer 3

Yeah that explains it. You swim breastroke. all the other strokes if you notice do not make leg 'snapping' motions as abrupt as breastroke. freestyle and backstroke as well as butterfly do not bring your kicking motion beyond the normal Range Of Motion of your knee - does not hyper extend it.

so 2 things most culpable for knee pain from breastroke:
1. Too abrupt a snapping motion with knee
2. Beyond the normal range of motion for the knee


yes it happens a lot to competitive breastroke swimmers because they tend to give it their all and swim very frequently. serious butterfly swimmers can even -disclocate- their shoulders

Ok now enough of the bad stuff. when you JUST get injured we use P.R.I.C.E. therapy:
Prevention
Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation

prevention - warm up, or while if already injured - restrict the movement of the injured part - sprained ankle ankle guard. knee knee guard, just to limit the movement and allow it to recover with lesser stress

Rest - give yourself time to heal

the I.C.E does not apply so much to you after the 2 months into the injury. the I.C.E part applies when you have swelling (injure something swelling usually takes place because of ruptured blood vessels. so you use ice and compression to constrict blood vessels making less blood pour out into your surrounding tissue, elevation to reduce blood flow to injured part)

so prevention and Rest are the names of your game. if you havent given yourself time to rest, do so. you may feel better.

if not - you need to see a doctor. meniscus tears or ligament tears (strain in best case scenario) can only be determined by MRI scans. but those 2 should depend on how serious you were during training.

overall if (and i hope) you get better. try see a physio for rehabilliataion if you want to be on the safe side. a physio can help build the small and otherwise very untrained muscles around the knee - thus helping you recover and prevent injuries. but above all - do some stroke correction. a coach can perhaps spot your mistake (uneven leg kicks etc) and help prevent future injuries.

but if you do have a meniscus or ligamental tear. my advice you be to switch strokes if you really still want to swim (you most probably cant run anyways)

Answer 4

Ice it after any actual acitivity. capability coach the muscle mass around the knee, thighs, calves and various of alternative others. upload extra beneficial calcium on your nutrition. attempt to strenght coach in a pool as you get balanced resistance.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The same thing happened to me! I went to see my doctor, and he sent me to a physical therapist. It really worked! I have not had pain in many years. Go see a physical therapist! It will help a lot!