Clinton Portis' Knees

Tendonitis is never serious, but it can be quite chronic. It's a foregone conclusion that CP will be in the starting lineup Week 1, but the problem is that over the next 17 weeks, theres little certainty that he will be able to keep playing.

If he hurts his shoulder, and is bothered by knee tendonitis, hes a lot more likely to sit the game out than if just his shoulder was giving him trouble.

I actually have tendonitis in both of my knees and it's not that big of a deal for me. The pain isn't that bad while I'm participating in an activity. However, the next day I have a lot of trouble moving around/standing up. I feel like Portis will miss a lot more practice than he will actual gametime.

I actually have tendonitis in both of my knees and it's not that big of a deal for me. The pain isn't that bad while I'm participating in an activity. However, the next day I have a lot of trouble moving around/standing up. I feel like Portis will miss a lot more practice than he will actual gametime.I had tendonitis in my throwing elbow for three years. Between baseball and football, I've never really had any down time. When I stopped playing football, it went away pretty fast.

Course, with knee tendonitis, it seems pretty much impossible to ever get some true down time. Unless they have CP on crutches, its a whole different ballgame than elbow tendonitis.

i've got the same thing he's got, and it definitely CAN be serious. it can turn into tendonOsis, and, if you keep running on it, it can buckle or rupture.

my knee's been bad for about 7 weeks now and it's just stopped getting worse (finally), but i haven't been running or marching on it for over a month.

tendonitis usually only lasts 7-10 days (it's an inflammation of the tissue that connects your upper and lower leg muscles, and it's right around the bottom part of your knee cap, on the front side). if that's all you have, you take naproxsyn or naprosyn (anti inflammitories) for a couple weeks and everything's cool.

going on over a year that's probably not what he has though, and if he's playing bball or some such over the offseason, that means it can't heal... and at that point, anti-inflammitories really don't do anything besides upsetting your stomach.

what i've had to do is ice it (a lot) and work heavily on thigh muscles to make up for it, while staying away from things like squats, jumping, and heavy running... getting the equivalent of shots in my knees too (they can use medicated pads and electrical current to get the same effect now).


anyways, not exactly fun times with that, and i doubt this is the last you see of it.

I'm more inclined to play the wait and see game with Clinton, knowing his utter disdain for practice, as well as preseason games which he made clear last preseason. I'm anxious to see what his position will be when the preseason has expired.

Tendinitis is inflammation of the knee tendons to put it simply.

It's really not a huge concern as long as they can keep the inflammation down. Then it's up to CP as to how much pain he can play with.

I think right now the training staff is being overly cautious with everyone. Even more cautious than usual based on what happened last year with CP and others like Springs.

I had Tendonitis in both knee's , behind the knee cap. It took awhile to heel. I have partially torn the same two ligaments in my ankle three times , the last injury I had two Orthropidics push me to have surgery. I chose to pass on the knife , took anti-inflamitories , rehab, R.I.C.E and took 2 Calcium/Magnesium tablets a day . The Calc/ Mag. tablets have always worked like magic for me in helping me recover from minor injuries . Hope it might work for any of you if you get hurt working out . As always , ask your doctor questions . Good luck to all of you who are hurt !!

I think right now the training staff is being overly cautious with everyone. Even more cautious than usual based on what happened last year with CP and others like Springs.


They need to be for sure. Hopefully CP can block out the pain and not sustain anymore injuries over the season, but that is highley unlikely.

if he cant play at least we have betts. Hopefully portis will be injury free this year.

This does not have to be a big issue and the staff is making the right moves to minimize this. That said, this is IMO how it will be with CP form now on. He's got a bit of milage on him and now he seems injury prone. This is another nagging problem for him that just makes thing more difficult for the O in general.