So, I've been playing Racquetball for a while now! Then, early this year (Jan 2011), I twisted my knee pretty bad at home with my right leg pivoted on the floor and my entire body got twisted on it. That was excruciatingly painful for about 10mins. I couldn't touch my leg during those 10 mins. After that, again I found out from my doctor that I wasn't making millions of dollars playing professonal sports and again no MRI- so rested for a few weeks and was back again at playing Racquetball ever so cautiously. Life continued for a few months.
Come May 2011, there was a word that some charity "Cricket" tournament was to be held in Mid-June. All the "young" folk around my age wanted to bring back our younger day memories and registered for this tournament. Then, we decided to practice once a week until the tournament. Little did we realize that the "feeling" of being young would be betrayed by the bodies that we carried. Among some smaller bruises and injuries faced by my colleagues during the course of these practices and actual tournament, I for one (having participated at the high school/college and university levels when young) went about "full swing" the very first day of practice. What a swing it was! The first time I started to bowl, my knee "clicked" like when you pluck a string. I started to be a little careful but when I flexed my knee after a little while to pick up a ball, it had become very stiff and I almost felt like my thigh muscles tore! Within about 10 minutes, the knee started to swell (my knee never swelled up in the past). In about one half an hour, I couldn't flex my knee at all.
This time, I iced it and went to the doctor a few days later and asked about the MRI. Reminded again about not making millions... but this time said let's revisit once the swelling goes down. Took 400mg ibuprofen and iced it and by the weekend, felt a lot better - so went and played cricket again - ever so cautiously this time. The knee swelled up again and I iced it and it became much better the following week - this continued until the tournament was over in which I participated with help from much younger kids. At that time, I went back to the doctor who finally figured it didn't matter that I didn't make millions playing professional sports and referred me to an orthopaedic surgeon and calmly shifted the burden of ordering an MRI to him.
Come May 2011, there was a word that some charity "Cricket" tournament was to be held in Mid-June. All the "young" folk around my age wanted to bring back our younger day memories and registered for this tournament. Then, we decided to practice once a week until the tournament. Little did we realize that the "feeling" of being young would be betrayed by the bodies that we carried. Among some smaller bruises and injuries faced by my colleagues during the course of these practices and actual tournament, I for one (having participated at the high school/college and university levels when young) went about "full swing" the very first day of practice. What a swing it was! The first time I started to bowl, my knee "clicked" like when you pluck a string. I started to be a little careful but when I flexed my knee after a little while to pick up a ball, it had become very stiff and I almost felt like my thigh muscles tore! Within about 10 minutes, the knee started to swell (my knee never swelled up in the past). In about one half an hour, I couldn't flex my knee at all.
This time, I iced it and went to the doctor a few days later and asked about the MRI. Reminded again about not making millions... but this time said let's revisit once the swelling goes down. Took 400mg ibuprofen and iced it and by the weekend, felt a lot better - so went and played cricket again - ever so cautiously this time. The knee swelled up again and I iced it and it became much better the following week - this continued until the tournament was over in which I participated with help from much younger kids. At that time, I went back to the doctor who finally figured it didn't matter that I didn't make millions playing professional sports and referred me to an orthopaedic surgeon and calmly shifted the burden of ordering an MRI to him.
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