Ice Skating 135: Still Knee Pain

Knee guard - checked! Knee pain - still there. Zzzzzzz. Lil Shauna complained of the same knee pain when she was warming up despite the knee guard. I dont know what else to do.

She could barely jump while warming up on ice and concentrated on her spins instead. I caught her almost landing a couple of nice back spins.

Her knee continued to bother her. I told her to tell Coach Raymond if it was jump class, half suspecting that she would bear with the pain and do some half-baked jumps than open her golden mouth. Fourtunately, it was footwork and then spins. Her spins were quite on form and again, she almost land some nice back spins. Her work in progress camel spins look quite decent too.

After class, Coach Raymond asked me what happened to her knee. He knew? It took me a while to realise what he was asking about. Apparently, the princess opened her mouth and told Coach of her knee pain and asked not to do jumps! Wah! This one must applaud.

Seriously, we were all puzzled. There were no dramatic falls. Is it growing pains? We didnt do extra practice too bcos the girl was still complaining of the pain.

The pain didnt go away on Sunday, which means that we skipped practice and off ice for some rest. I asked Lil Shauna to rate her pain on a 1 to 10 pain scale with 10 being excruciating "want-to-die" kind of pain. She said that it was a 7. What????? An ant bite is probably 7 too then. Zzzzzzzz.

The knee pain still didnt go away this morning. Should I bring her to a sports injury doctor? Would a chiropractor help? Haiz.

Mummy Lim