I've had a very rough month, had to drop out of my masters swim class and stop running. I was diagnosed with spondylolisthesis, a displacement of the lumbar vertebrae, which pinched a couple nerves and caused extreme pain down the left leg. I still have lingering aches, but feeling almost normal again. It's caused by arthritis eating away the bone of the vertebrae and allowing them to slip. I had been running 3-4 miles every other day and swimming 1500-2500 yards alternate days (had not begun biking yet). I'm getting PT once a week a gym and once in a pool. Running is out of the question for the foreseeable future, but what about getting back in the pool? Has anyone had this issue and what do I need to be doing to get back in the water.
I've had pain & swelling in my knees since December, which caused me to stop running and change to swimming. It felt like something was eating or burning my knees from inside. This occurred in my left knee first and the right knee was okay, so I thought it was caused by my shoes. I changed the shoes, stopped running, stopped eating grains, my knee got a little better so I started going for walks in February, not quite the same but it was something at least. Then my right knee got very swollen, painful, I stopped with the walking and after a few weeks started swimming and started eating rice again, thinking the issue was caused by the shoes.
However, the pain was not going away, and I finally realized the eating away burning feeling was caused by uric acid, most likely coming from the rice, aka gout or arthritis, especially bad at night when laying down sleeping. I stopped eating rice again, switched to many more veggies, and the pain went away within a couple of days.
There are different views about this, but here are two videos that helped me to find the solution.
Apprently youtube links can't be posted without playing them, so here are the last parts of the links.
watch?v=Age_dvsJMRk
watch?v=6sjXg38Ycew
I've had pain & swelling in my knees since December, which caused me to stop running and change to swimming. It felt like something was eating or burning my knees from inside. This occurred in my left knee first and the right knee was okay, so I thought it was caused by my shoes. I changed the shoes, stopped running, stopped eating grains, my knee got a little better so I started going for walks in February, not quite the same but it was something at least. Then my right knee got very swollen, painful, I stopped with the walking and after a few weeks started swimming and started eating rice again, thinking the issue was caused by the shoes.
However, the pain was not going away, and I finally realized the eating away burning feeling was caused by uric acid, most likely coming from the rice, aka gout or arthritis, especially bad at night when laying down sleeping. I stopped eating rice again, switched to many more veggies, and the pain went away within a couple of days.
There are different views about this, but here are two videos that helped me to find the solution.
Apprently youtube links can't be posted without playing them, so here are the last parts of the links.
watch?v=Age_dvsJMRk
watch?v=6sjXg38Ycew
