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Description: Randy Ice PT, CCS offers a mobile bike fitting program that can resolve your pain syndrome and/or optimize your power output where others have failed.
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Despite the fact that the knee joint moves the most during cycling vs other sports, and the most force is created through the knee via the quadriceps muscle, a cycling knee injury is a relatively rare phenomenon. In fact, many athletes in other sports such as football, basketball, soccer, etc. that put a pounding on the knee joint and whose athletes suffer such injuries as torn meniscus (cartilage) and torn anterior cruciate ligaments ( ACL) or medial collateral ligaments ( MCL) are usually rehabed back to
The more common cycling knee injury will be repetitive motion problems due to faulty underlying biomechanics that cause an overuse syndrome. These include quadriceps or patellar tendonitis, ilial-tibial band syndrome and rarely hamstring tendonitis. Rarely will there be an injury from cycling be an actual knee joint issue. Even those people with severe degenerative joint disease of the knee joint are usually able to cycle on a bike and benefit from it. There is not the trauma to the joint that there is with
The Q factor is an often overlooked factor in bike fitting that when ignored, is a major contributing factor to cycling knee injury. Lateral knee pain is very commonly related to a Q factor that is too narrow as is pain from the foot all the way up to the hip while riding in many cyclists. The Q factor specifically is the distance between the feet when placed on the pedals. Road bikes tend to have a narrower Q factor than mountain bikes due to a narrower bottom bracket. Recumbent cyclists often benefit from
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