Ok, bear with me on this one!
I've got a longstanding (about 4 years) injury to my left knee - partly football, party running. At the beginning of last year I tried to push myself too hard which hurt the knee so, with the exception of one duathlon I didn't do any running for most of last year. The duathlon last year with offroad so MT run and only 2*2 miles so I thought I would be alright. I was, my knee wasn't.
The race caused problems which meant that for a long time afterwards I ended up almost limping rather than walking - and given that I walk to work (6 miles each day) it's a rather lot of limping!
Beginning of this year I went to a physio who said I had minor cartilage damage to the knee and some 'muscle inbalance' in the leg but it wasn't anything serious so I was free to run. I am resigned to the fact that my knee is going to hurt, I can live with that. What I can't live with is the muscle inbalance - i.e. my left leg muscles are weaker than my right. I can, and do, go to the gym to strengthen the muscles (quads especially). The issue is that my left leg has now retrained itself to 'limp' slightly and it doesn't lift as much as my right either when I'm running or walking. This is now causing me hamstring problems.
So does anyone have any hints on how I can 'retrain' my left leg to lift properly?? Does this post even make sense
I've got a longstanding (about 4 years) injury to my left knee - partly football, party running. At the beginning of last year I tried to push myself too hard which hurt the knee so, with the exception of one duathlon I didn't do any running for most of last year. The duathlon last year with offroad so MT run and only 2*2 miles so I thought I would be alright. I was, my knee wasn't.
The race caused problems which meant that for a long time afterwards I ended up almost limping rather than walking - and given that I walk to work (6 miles each day) it's a rather lot of limping!
Beginning of this year I went to a physio who said I had minor cartilage damage to the knee and some 'muscle inbalance' in the leg but it wasn't anything serious so I was free to run. I am resigned to the fact that my knee is going to hurt, I can live with that. What I can't live with is the muscle inbalance - i.e. my left leg muscles are weaker than my right. I can, and do, go to the gym to strengthen the muscles (quads especially). The issue is that my left leg has now retrained itself to 'limp' slightly and it doesn't lift as much as my right either when I'm running or walking. This is now causing me hamstring problems.
So does anyone have any hints on how I can 'retrain' my left leg to lift properly?? Does this post even make sense