Week 3

My tendon has continued its positive healing progress, and I've only had one bad day this week. Currently my knee feels better than it did before the PRP injection and there hasn't been any regression in pain. Its basically gone from the 70% it was at previously to 80%. When I straighten my leg and flex my quad muscle there is minimal pain, whereas before this would have caused a sharp pain sensation in my left tendon. The tendon itself still feels quite hard and doesn't seem to have as many bumps (I think this is the scar tissue and misaligned collagen).

I have done a few light sets of eccentric single-legged squats on a slant board and these are still quite uncomfortable on my knee. I also went for a fairly strenuous 8km mountain bike on Monday and my knee didn't feel too bad, not completely healed, but not painful. 

When I tried a light 300m jog today my left knee felt alright while my right knee had the familiar sharp pain sensation that I had before on the left knee whenever I pushed off from the ground or landed. One thing that I have noted is that my left knee feels a lot tighter and stiffer in comparison to the right, perhaps it's due to a bit of inflammation or the healing process happening in the tendon? However the chronic sharp pain I used to experience running or going upstairs seems to have subsided in the left knee.

The progress is slow and gradual as I expected, but if it continues I will be happy. I am going to go for a PRP shot in the right knee in 2 weeks. And then a follow up the PRP injection in my left knee in a month's time.

I hope that if you are considering a PRP Injection for a tendonopathy or are currently recovering from one, that you are finding this blog useful. If you have any questions, queries or comments feel free to post them below or email.

(Rafa Nadal just won Roland Garos after pulling out of the Miami Open in April due to knee pain, for which he had a PRP Injection. It seemed to sort him out again!)