Knee Tendon Injury?

[Mailorder]

So two weekends ago, I had an intense session of DDR. I was at an anime con, and they had 5th Mix arcade. I played for about 20 minutes nonstop (it was thursday evening, pre-registration day.. so no one playing DDR). I didn't stretch or warmup. Did level 8s and 9s. So at the end of the 20 minutes, I felt really really burned out. And I was done. I spent the rest of the weekend walking around the con. I didn't play DDR the rest of that weekend because I noticed a pain in my left knee.

Last weekend, I went jogging. About 5 minutes into the jogging, I noticed that pain in my knee came back. I noticed the pain wasn't there if I walked. But if I jogged or ran, it was there.

Last night, I went jogging and once again, the pain returned after 5 minutes.

My question is, should I take a break from DDR and jogging for another week or two? Has anyone had a similar knee tendon injury? What should I do for faster healing?

[tornupsock]

Yea. Stop. Pain usually means stop.

The severity of your next actions depends on a couple of things. 1. sit down, and try lifting the lower half of your leg up just with your muscles. If its very difficult, you should go see a doctor (I blew mine out skateboarding). If it seems okay otherwise (good range of motion and all), just lay off it a while, do minor stretching, and if it worsens, then again: go see a doctor.

Knees are no joke.

[Victamone]

Yeah just take a break. Pain is your bodys way of telling you to stop. If it still hurts badly after about a week or two go get it checked out.

And on another note, was the con you were at Sakuracon?

[Mailorder]

I wish I was at Sakuracon : p

I was at AniZona.

[EverZeroX]

Human knees have the worst design ever. They are usually very easy to rip or tear. And when they do, you suffer alot....

Lol, try not move around. A doctors your best bet here. Worst case scenario is that you'll need knee surgury. I've had one of those and it sucked ass big time.....

But I doubt you'll need it...