Good morning Docs. This week I was supposed to be starting week 2 of the GPP endurance template, but I sustained a minor but painful injury to my left knee yesterday while skiing and am unsure how to proceed. I hit a jump, ended up with my skis perpendicular to my downhill momentum in the air (aborted trick attempt), and landed like that while trying to bring things back forward again. My left leg was the uphill leg at the time. Immediately upon impact I felt a minor pain around the superior tibiofibular joint that remained a dull ache when I stood up.
Attempted to ski a few more runs, at first only additional (sharp) pain I felt was when my knees were forced to absorb impact due to my skis leaving the snow. After 3 or 4 more runs the sharp pain was being caused by many of the random and unpredictable forces that the terrain places on the legs by the changing terrain and snow conditions, so I called it a day. Immediately after unclipping from my bindings and still today I’m walking with a moderately painful limp. The pain seems to be centered on that joint, feels like it’s between the tib and fib, and is radiating into the musculature on the front of the shin just below the knee. I also have a slight numbing and tingling sensation affecting the area of the three outer metatarsals and where they attach at the ankle. I can do a bodyweight squat, but I get pain in the joint as a pass about 30-40 degrees of knee flexion on the way back up.
I think I have a grade 1 sprain of one of the ligaments in there. The important question is can I, and should I, still squat and deadlift?