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By: The Fitness Adviser » Blog Archive - Advice and Tips on Fitness, Nutrition, and Injuries, Because Even Rocky Needed A Manager » Tennis Star Rafael Nadal, Me, and Jumpers Knee/Tendinosis/Tendinitis

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:10:26 +0000

[...] from Hines Ward and Troy Polamalu from the Pitssburgh Steelers, and go get checked out for either platelet rich plasma therapy or prolotherapy. If there’s one thing pro football players know about, it’s healing injuries. Not only [...]

By: Lina

Lina — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:35:44 +0000

Rafi:

Thanks for the suggestions. I Can’t wait to see how you do with the PRP and I wish you a lot of luck with them.:)

~Lina

By: Rafi

Rafi — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:04:04 +0000

Lina,

Good luck with the prolotherapy! Jumpers Knee is a tricky injury but it can definitely be healed and treated. An awesome physical therapy exercise for jumpers knee is also to do eccentric one-leg squats, like this guy. – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY98htXP0O4

Without the weights, do 3 sets of 15 twice a day every day until you start feeling better. Then you can add weight. Wait until your knee’s swelling goes down after the prolo shot, and then you can start the squats. Doing them after you get prolotherapy with maybe some light cross-friction tendon massaging (massaging horizontally across the tendon) is amazing for Jumpers knee.

I still have Jumpers Knee, but I’ve come a long way since the point that I was unable to walk. Right now I’m going to get checked out for platelet therapy in around a week, and you can be sure that I’m going to let you guys know all about it. (You have to keep coming back to see what happens!)

Garyk Patton,

Thanks for the nice comment, I really appreciate it.

-Rafi

By: GarykPatton

GarykPatton — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:50:21 +0000

I think I will try to recommend this post to my friends and family, cuz it’s really helpful.

By: Lina

Lina — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:07:55 +0000

Hello Rafi:

Nice blog!:)

I happen to have bad case of jumper’s knee too! I will see prolo doc in three weeks, and am looking forward to it.

What kind of knee issue do you have now? Are you going to get prp or sugar shots this time ’round?

~Lina

By: Rafi

Rafi — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:10:27 +0000

Ben,

Thanks for the compliment!

I agree that there were many extraordinarily intelligent people in history, but that doesn’t mean I would give up on our generation!

-Rafi

By: ben

ben — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:39:25 +0000

Very informative blog. I did not know about those advancements in medicine, but its a good thing i found this site. Its pretty sad that most of our new technology has actually been known for years, like in this case back in the time of Hipocrates. You can’t expect too much out of humanity after all, those philosophers were genius freaks of nature.