Google rooster juice injection. It's made from the comb of a rooster and is injected. Its a synovial fluid.

grumplestiltskin said..

Unfortunately, for me, its more than just softer riding boards, or flatter water (thanks Keef thats real helpful ).
My knees give my grief even if I walk too far or try jogging etc.

I know there is an underlying problem, I'm just trying to reduce the effects.
Wearing a standard elastic kneebrace afterwards helps, but if I can reduce it in the first place that has to be better.

I gave up jogging years ago because both my knees have had bits taken out and even power walking can aggravate them.

I use knee friendly boards and race sails with skinny mast. A softer sails really helps to smooth things out.

Every now and again I tweak my knees so I do have a brace, it's a heavy neoprene sleeve with stainless hinges that strap below and above the knee. Do a search on the web, you will find a variety of braces for water use.

To be honest I'm not sure how well they work but they do provide a level of confidence when I sail with an injury, but I am very careful.

I've found Guy Cribbs stance is great in chop. He says use longer lines and sail in a sitting type position with straight legs and bent arms- pushing out with your bum , very low to the water.. As you are hanging out off the boom rather than standing on the board it creates good mast base pressure and soaks up any bumps so that should ease the strain on your knees.

Interesting article about the glucosamine. But for me, just 1 instead of 3 tablets a day already makes a big difference, and will hopefully have fewer negative effects.

I took lessons with Matt Pritchard on Maui to get more comfortable in the chop and 30+ knot winds there. His two big pieces of advice:
- bend your knees!
- trust your harness!

Made all the difference in the world. He'd also would have suggested longer harness lines, except that mine already were 32 inches. Overall, his advice is quite similar to what Guy Cribb says, according to sboardcrazy.

I feel a huge difference between bent-knee, 100% harness days and straight-leg, grab-on-to-go-fast days. There's a lot less pain after bent knee days. Really concentrating on very light hands just another part of the equation.

Crazy as it may sound - try doing some longer sessions, focusing only on comfort & listening to your body (you may want to get a Tabou or similar first). You can muscle it for a short time, but not for 3+ hours. You'll gain a technique that leads to less pain.

The same site publishes positive findings 5 years after that study :

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22216067
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22293240

Personally, I think the studies will match the need or pharamceutical companies.

Either way, Glucosmaine helps me, and if I get the secondary diabetes, It would be more likely caused by the crap I eat otherwise.