Recovery and Rehab Update: Month 6 After 2nd Surgery
I'm 6 months out from synovectomy/patella release/fat pad re-sectioning and 12.5 months out from mosaicplasty and OATS surgery. I'm still a long way from a full return to running...but it has been a month of good progress. My plan to gradually convert my 20-minute walks to 20-minute runs has continued without interruption. I walk/run every other day and I've been extending my 4 running intervals by 15 seconds (each) every other workout. As of last post I was up to 4 x 45s jogs (3 minutes of running) and I'm now up to 4 x 2:30 jogs (10 minutes of running). I'm experiencing some medial knee pain...but it is not worsening as I run longer (and a bit faster) and seems to have lessened a bit during the last 2 workouts. I had a slight increase in burning pain a few weeks back, but I cut back on cycling and that has reduced symptoms. I've added a short walking interval to warm up and another to cool down after each 20-minute walk/run workout. My workouts are lasting ove