Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

i start feeling a lil inflamation and i thought it was nothing and when i was jumpni the next day, i knew it was jumper knee. What do you do and How long will i have it?

Use RICE - Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation :yes:.  Also some anti-inflammatories might help.

what anti-inflammatories do you guys suggest? specific name so i can buy it from sotre today, if you can

I would evaluate the tighness of the quad….deep tissue work has worked wonders in relaxing the tension there.

how do i relax my quad?

Carl,

I agree with your call, but would first ask some basic questions:
Shoes?  Surface?  prior conditioning and jumping leading up to the day?

Hard surface, bad footwear, too many jumps?  HJ torque from poor angles at plant, and adaption to curve running?
(tight approach curve may be mis-perscribed?)

And as far as the previous training and jumping in specific, connectative tissues adapt to workload over time.  So, say a basketball player or track man that has been working out over a period of time and develops pain is a whole different story than one who say ate donuts all winter and just came out for spring track and took 30 full jumps the 3rd day into the grand experiment!

Hardwo
What was different about the day that resulted in the pain?

well said! I am just lazy with my responses as of now…great points.

The day before I was dunking on concrete in the yard and I sorta felt a slight pain in the right knee. The next day we were running games up to 7 points. I played 3 games. I felt great i was shooting jumpers and I had one dunk on the break. At the end of the 3rd game i went up for laypup and I felt pain right under knee the and swolleness near the patella tendon. 3 months prior to this I had pain in my righ knee when would come down from a layup. But during vacation i rested up and when I came back in town I felt great and had no pain at all. I think the root of my problem is really the imbalane between my quads and hamstirngs. I use to beleive that quads were the key to jump, it sounds dumb but in alot of the lists that show the mucshels used in jumping and the percentages said 50%quads. Then I started talknig to rela trainers and started studying and researching. And the posterior chain is the engine to jumping higher and runnign faster. I'm working on my posterior chain (spinal erectors, gluteals, hamstrings) and trying to fix that major imbalance. for now im gonig to stay way from jumping off the right leg, ice the knee 2-3 times a day and work on the Posterior Chain (i.e. deadlifts) which don't bother my knee. What do you guys think?

...develop a severe allergy to cement first and foremost.

The training info is true in that there needs to be a balance between muscle groups.  But it is not as simple as stopping the training in one area in favor of training another.

What exactly are you "training" for?

Basketball, Track event(s)
Cover of Ortho Monthly?

I'm a basketball player but i'm trainig to win this dunk contest at a camp plus I'm thinking about trying triple jump and high jump next year.

or at least give yourself a few days, a day at least, between hoops sessions on concrete.

All the muscle in the world wont save your knees….

thanks coach once I'm back and 100%, I'm never gongi to dunk in my yard two days in a row and afterwards im gonna ice the knees.