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Marathon Recovery: Severe Knee Pain After Running #shorts

27 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, the speaker recounts returning to running after a marathon break and experiencing severe, unfamiliar knee pain during a 6‑mile run. Describing the pain as a sharp, shock‑like sensation distinct from the bone bruises typical of their gymnastics background, they explain how the pain forced them to limp. Working in healthcare, they consulted a nurse and visited urgent care, which provided limited treatment but issued an orthopedic referral for further evaluation.

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After I had run the marathon, I had taken some time off of running just to let my body revive, recover a little bit. And then I was getting back into it. I had— I just remember an early morning, like, 6-mile run, and I stopped and I was limping. I was like, oh my gosh, I've never felt this kind of pain. And I was a gymnast, so I would have knee and ankle pain, but it was a very different kind of pain. I'm used to, like, bone bruises, but it being cartilage, it was almost like a shock kind of a pain. Mm-hmm. And so After that run, I had went to work that day and I, I work in healthcare. So I went to one of my nurses. I said, I don't know what's going on, but I can barely walk on this. So I went to urgent care and urgent care didn't do a lot for me other than give me an ortho referral.