Message #15587

[Svend]

I returned from Colorado this season with some minor discomfort and cycling actually helped strengthen the knee.

Mike -- cycling can be a remarkable healer, you're right.  It has helped both my wife and 12 year old daughter recover from surgery and injury.  After knee surgery to remove a damaged meniscus, my wife was ordered by her surgeon to get on her bike within 48 hours of the surgery, and keep doing that every 2 days.  It helped immensely to free up the joint and get the blood flowing.  And recently, our daughter sprained her foot in a soccer game, and cycling helped get her back onto the field in only 3 weeks.  Three times a week, 20 km each, ice cream at the trailside cafe at the halfway point     It was the perfect low-impact way to get the bones and ligaments moving and speed the healing.  It's just  great sport.  We all love it.