It's a definite. Knees are badly designed and that, combined with losing muscle mass as you age makes things even worse. I'm back on dog walking as of tomorrow and considering other forms of exercise to regain muscle strength. Heaven forfend!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I'm training up for a couple of weeks walking in North Wales carrying a small child in a rucksack. My right knee is strapped up already and aching like crazy when it's cold. It sounds like I should book in with the NHS for a bionic knee now and it might get organised before I hit zimmer frame age.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I've had problems with my knee giving way since an injury when I was 40 ... now I'm in my 60s and the fall led to a break last year they're saying it's such a shame it wasn't diagnosed earlier as any op now that I'm 'over 27' would have such a long recovery time that it may cause other health problems ... they said I should have 'made more of a fuss' when it first started going wrong.
So I'm blaming Ma who brought me up to be stoical and not make a fuss .... well, you have to laugh, don't you .........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It ain't necessarily so Dove! I had a knee injury in my 30s - cracked knee cap and torn ligaments - which were "fixed" at Northwick Park hospital. Thanks to incompetence I've had multi directional knees ever since. Now I also get twinges and stiffness or sudden collapses.
Wasn't too bad when I did regular weight training till I was 40 but has slowly deteriorated despite walkies and all the dancing tho it's been a bit better in this drier climate for the last year or so, hence thinking of proper exercises again.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I recommend anyone with dodgy knees to go on holiday to Douglas, Isle of Man, fall over and fracture your kneecap. My mum did this in her 70's, the hospital was brilliant, repaired it the same day, made all the arrangements for her journey home to Sussex (she did it on the last day of the holiday). Sent her home with very effective pain relief and organised physio. Twenty years on, it's never given her a bit of trouble.
👹😡🤬 got to give up looking on the site tonight, too many big photos, loads of blank pages. Why do people have to put a ID view of a plant from every which way, from the left, from the right, aerial view, close up aerial view. Everytime I select a thread to view the whole thing jumps about as they load, so I end up selecting (by accident) a thread I do to want to view. Rant over. I’m off to bed.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I really do need to get back to 'formal' exercising too, knees an issue here aswell. Lyn....... I don't get an option to reduce my picture size, I can just about manage to load them. Before the site changed loading pics was very hit and miss, at least now they load every time. Hampshire hog.......no wonder you were in such pain, glad to hear it's been put back in place.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I can't get out to plant Sweet Williams, wallflowers and bellis.
So I'm blaming Ma who brought me up to be stoical and not make a fuss
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wasn't too bad when I did regular weight training till I was 40 but has slowly deteriorated despite walkies and all the dancing tho it's been a bit better in this drier climate for the last year or so, hence thinking of proper exercises again.
Why do people have to put a ID view of a plant from every which way, from the left, from the right, aerial view, close up aerial view.
Everytime I select a thread to view the whole thing jumps about as they load, so I end up selecting (by accident) a thread I do to want to view.
Rant over. I’m off to bed.
Lyn....... I don't get an option to reduce my picture size, I can just about manage to load them. Before the site changed loading pics was very hit and miss, at least now they load every time.
Hampshire hog.......no wonder you were in such pain, glad to hear it's been put back in place.