I worked with Luba Thursday and told her that my knee is hurting on the outside. My MCL is feeling better with the taping and that was what was strained in my injury. I didn’t understand why it was hurting so badly on the outside of my knee cap. It REALLY hurt! It had almost been a month since my injury but maybe it hurt because my MCL was feeling better in comparison. Luba looked thoughtful and maybe a little confused.
She told me that maybe I was over-compensating with the outside of my knee. She also pointed out that since I am knock-kneed, that might affect the healing process. I have ALWAYS told people that I have the world’s ugliest knees because I do. My knee caps face inward a bit so my legs are funny shaped. Luba pressed the outside of my knee to see where it hurt. It hurt EVERYWHERE! It hurts like a letter “C” cupping my kneecap. Luba told me that it was my “IT band,” she would work on that, and she would tape my knee differently to help with the pain. She also told me that they had blue tape now.
Gerry would use blue tape sometimes, pink too but Kinesio tape is usually black. I’d REALLY dig purple! After she worked my IT band, placed the patches for stim, and put the ice on, she went to the table behind me. When my stim time was up, she came back with what looked like blue octopi in her hand. She had cut the tape in to strips but left it uncut at the top so I told her they looked like blue octopi. It wasn’t until the next morning where I noticed that there were a bunch of these “octopi” and rather they looked Ike jellyfish from SpongeBob SquarPants. My Dad used to watch that show ALL THE TIME with Sean when Sean was little. My Mom and I think that show is dumb but Sean swears that it is, “Quality TV” to this day! It makes me think of my Dad so maybe it does that for Sean too.