Knee pain

rodgers73
rodgers73 Posts: 2,626
edited July 2010 in Road beginners
I don't know if any of you have heard of pronation of the foot, but I get this. So, when out running or walking I get painful knees after a while.

Does cycling generate such pain??

Bit specialised I know...

Cheers

Tom

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  • furrag
    furrag Posts: 481
    Yeah, it affects cycling too. You can get wedges that insert into your shoe to correct it.
  • rodgers73
    rodgers73 Posts: 2,626
    Darn. I'll have to look into them.
  • danowat
    danowat Posts: 2,877
    You might also want to consider seat height / position, cleat / foot position on the pedal, and also stretches.

    I have found that hamstring and glute stretches help massively with my knee issues.
  • jacky1019
    jacky1019 Posts: 4
    hi, do u pay attention to the cadence and gear? in order to avoid knee pain, a cyclist is recommended to use higher cadence and smaller gear, so that he does not have to pedal too hard, and not to hurt his knee consequently
  • PaulS77
    PaulS77 Posts: 48
    It might be worth considering a bike fit. I'm also a runner with problematic knees and when I had my bike fitting wedges were discussed as Furrag suggests (though ruled out in my case), and as also mentioned seat and cleat positioning was key.

    A good bike fit should be able to get you setup to overcome as best possible your knee pain, it was certainly worth the money for me.
  • cycologist
    cycologist Posts: 721
    Deffo for checking out your cleat positioning. i have a history of sport related injuries to my right knee ( including cartilage removal plus dislocation of the patella x 4 ) I eventually gave up running so as not to further exacerbate the damage already caused whereby I could no longer even walk properly The only times I have had a any knee pain whilst cycling was cured by repositioning the orientation of the cleat to allow the foot to turn outwards more so that it was not trying to realign my knee joint . Having a good amount of float also helps. (Another idea may be to curtail or cease the running before reaching a stage where your knees are permanently f**led).
    Two wheels good,four wheels bad
  • sparkman
    sparkman Posts: 74
    Remember having knee pain many years back.
    The problem was down to saddle position and height. ie to far back, and to low.
    Once positioned correctly the transformation to my riding was beyond belief, especialy when covering 60 plus mile rides.
    Well worth looking into. :wink:

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