• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    That my knees were going to go to shit, and carrying a backpack through the mountains needs good knees. Fuck, I miss those trips.

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      14 hours ago

      Find a good physical therapist. There are some good ones out there, I promise. But you might need to travel and/or pay out of pocket. And the best source for good PT recs is friends in the same sport - so make friends with some ultra runners and ask them.

      Hit the gym and do yoga. A big part of a lot of knee pain is instability in the low back and hips.

      Read up on psychosomatic pain, and integrate exercises into PT and gym time.