Jumper's knee (and retirement?)

[Stefanie]

@stylee

I’ve been to physical therapy 3 times in the past two years for jumper’s knee. After the first one, my knee felt great for about 6 months, until I was deadlifting with a lot of weight one day.

Pow. From that point on, it’s been off-and-on painful (over a year and a half) and the follow up therapies have yielded nothing. After the last one (which ended in October), I slowly eased back into tempo running. I was feeling decent, though not great, until I did two consecutive days of tempo this week and it got incredibly stiff.
Tried to do a speed session the next day and it just didn’t go.

Therapy obviously hasn’t worked. Thinking about hanging up the spikes. Is any other treatment possible?

Does jumper’s knee = chondromalacia?

In that case, Charlie has recommended underwater ultrasound therapy.