NY Times Article

When I first moved to San Antonio and went to my doctor for a sinus infection I asked him about some ailments I was having. Mainly that my knees hurt a bit and I wondered if taking glucosamine would help the alieviate the pain. He said: you should stop running. The odd thing is that since I've lost weight and started running on a regular basis (remember those 876 miles last year?) my knees don't hurt anymore. It could be because of the weight loss. But the thing is I had knee pain in high school, weighed about 140 lbs and I was pretty active. I wasn't a runner, but I was active. And now that I'm a runner I don't have knee pain. Odd isn't it.
When I first started having ankle pain I went to a podiatrist who prescribed some steroids and said I shouldn't run so much. Then I found a doctor who is an athlete and well, he's slowly curing what ails me. It never dawned on me that you have to find a doctor who understands sport. I saw this article on the New York Times and I had one of those "ooooh!" moments.