Glucosamine for athletes under 35. Does it really help???
I had a Grade 2 ankle sprain in Feb 2015 for the very first time playing competitive volleyball. Nothing has been the same since. My R knee started compensating due to tightness and lack of mobility in the R ankle, shortly after I started feeling more stress in my lower patella when walking down stairs, and now I feel pain in the upper patella and I feel pain in the quadriceps tendon. I started feeling the same thing on my L knee last week and had to take a week off without any physical activities. I've been doing treatment, stretching, foam rolling for the last year, and while everything helps in the moment, as soon as I play and wake up the next morning I'm in pain again. Then I met a few athletes who advised me to take Glucosamine - they took it for 6 months and claimed that they felt less pain. I used to think the supplement was only for 60+ with arthritis and joint pains but maybe I'm wrong??? Should I give it a shot??