Knee problems help please?

Knee Problems please help !?

• I play alot of basketball and im now in my last year of highschool and i need to be playing the best ball of my life. recently both my knees have started to ache and this is a problem because it does not allow me to play as fast as i used to and therfore not to my full potential. My both my knees ache in the tendon directly below my knee cap and the muscle directly above. And in my left knee it feels like there is a mass that pushes up against my knee cap from the inside causing immense pain and not allowing me to straighten it all the way. Im not the greatest player on my team, but i would soon like to be and i dont want this holding me back. I am also pondering on whether i should rest my knee or not because this problem has happend before but soon went away because it was just growing pains. Any suggestions on what i should do would be very helpful thankyou

• Answer:

  Leppyy27 is correct. you love to play. you need a consult with an orthopedic surgeon. if you ignore this, you may have to quit playing. i had knee pain, and seeing an orthopedist was the best thing i did for my knee.