I think I have Prepatellar bursitis.
My right knee only hurts if I kneel down on it…as in my knee contacts the floor (or the bed…sad to say) but doesn’t hurt when I squat or run and I even climbed the 91 flights of stairs in the world’s second tallest building yesterday with no knee pain.
I don’t see any swelling or redness.
Thanks for any help.
My right knee was like this for roughly 6 months last year. Though I could pinpoint what caused it. I was playing flag football on some slippery grass and when I went to stop one of my feet kept going, causing me to basically fall straight onto my right knee. Hurt horribly for the next few days, but then all motion came back and could use it fine. Only issue was if I kneeled on it.
The couple doctors I saw thought it was different things, but when I saw a knee specialist he thought it was a deep bone bruise and to keep giving it time. I’m a naturally slow healer as is, so mine took 6 months to go away finally despite not hitting it on anything.
Thanks.
Yeah, I read that a hit to the knee can make it do this. Though I don’t rightfully remember hitting it anywhere.
Do you do any activity that causes you to be kneeling often? For work, I’m usually going from standing to kneeling multiple (probably 50-100 times) over an 8 hour shift. I started using my other knee exclusively for that as much as I could, which sucked. But just a reminder that doing what you can to avoid bumping it is always a good idea.
Your situation sounds similar to mine, but you can’t remember any trauma that would’ve lead to this so it’s possible our experiences aren’t the same.
I don’t need to kneel so i don’t think that would have done it.
But just so long as the idea is to rest it and it’ll go away then that’s good.