My wife and I took a Sunday walk on a muddy forest track with swathes of bluebells. Picking my way across a particularly treacherous section, I slipped and fell into a squat still on my feet. Whoaaahhhh. Ultra pain :-o. Initially I wondered if I'd torn a ligament. However getting up things seemed OK and I could comfortably walk back home.
The sharpness of the pain prodded me to book an appointment with my GP and get my clunk listened to.
I often feel a bit embarrassed seeing a GP, aware that resources are short and there are calls on the GP's time - often from folk who have really incapacitating diseases. Still prevention is better than cure!
After a few knee flexes and a hunt for tender spots (none) he asked me what I thought the problem might be. Is this a fair tactic? Or is this lending a consultant your watch so that he can tell you the time? I thought it fair - the GP cannot draw upon the experience of living in my body every day. So we discussed the amount of cycling I do, the related problems of uneven muscle development and the possibility that the patella is not tracking properly. Time for some physio.
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