Self care: posterior knee, upper gastroc pain

[modeling guy]

Hi folks,

I'm currently dealing with pain in one leg, and curious to know if others have experienced anything like this. It's mostly inferior to the popliteal, definitely gastroc and maybe popliteus... when I flex my knee I can feel it down to the achilles tendon.

No or little pain at rest, but it hurts to walk, and gets worse over time... the other day I had so much walking to do, that I ended up limping home.

It seems related to the chair massage routine I have to do for work, which involves putting all my weight onto the ball of one foot, and repetitive internal & external rotations of the leg.

I had a full hour of work on the region last night, which really loosened it all up (stretching now feels like it actually does something), and have done both warm soaks and ice.

Hoping to get more work this week, but thought I'd check in with all of you folks and see if you had any more ideas for self care.

 

[jdwestbrook86]

Self care: posterior knee, upper gastroc pain

Hi folks,
I'm currently dealing with pain in one leg, and curious to know if others have experienced anything like this. It's mostly inferior to the popliteal, definitely gastroc and maybe popliteus... when I flex my knee I can feel it down to the achilles tendon.

it could involve soleus too if you're feeling it in the achilles tendon.
do you have a muscle testing book to test each of these to see if you can isolate which one is involved?
and do you feel it in the belly of the muscle or is it more tendon pain?

i'm suspecting tendon or the musculotendous connection.

maybe you could try using a knee wrap/ace bandage to support the upper portion of the calf. mr. mush recently 'twanged' his lateral epicondyle in the right elbow. he bought an elbow wrap that velcro's above and below the joint. it seems to work better than an ace bandage by not wrapping the fossa.