{"id":3370,"date":"2009-01-31T21:51:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T04:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:35:21","slug":"hobbled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/01\/31\/hobbled\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I went to see an orthopedist and got some information on what&#8217;s going on with my leg. First of all, I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsfhealth.org\/adult\/medical_services\/ortho\/sports_medicine\/conditions\/patello\/signs.html\">patellofemoral syndrome<\/a> (also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/chondromalacia-patella\/DS00777\">chondromalacia patella<\/a>), and I was told to stop wearing a knee brace and given an exercise to strengthen the quadricep muscles. Apparently the cartilage under the knee cap is very thin, and the kneecap is grinding a bit. A stronger quad muscle will help it maneuver better, and a brace actually weakens that muscle and makes it all worse.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the doctor is ordering an MRI to check for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmc.edu\/9909.html\">medial meniscus tear<\/a>. I am hoping my HMO will approve the test (otherwise it&#8217;s $2,000). Once the test is done, the doctor will review the results with me. If there is a tear, I&#8217;ll need surgery. If there isn&#8217;t a tear, then I guess we&#8217;ll discuss what else might be going on.<\/p>\n<p>The irony of this is that yesterday was the first day my leg hurt hardly at all! The more exercise I do, the more it hurts, and I&#8217;ve stopped doing much in the past week. But it pains me today, so I&#8217;m glad I got going on finding treatment for it. The doctor recommended I do biking and swimming, and so I&#8217;m going to follow that route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I went to see an orthopedist and got some information on what&#8217;s going on with my leg. First of all, I have patellofemoral syndrome (also known as chondromalacia patella), and I was told to stop wearing a knee brace and given an exercise to strengthen the quadricep muscles. Apparently the cartilage under the knee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11653,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/11653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}