The best way to avoid injury is to exercise the muscles supporting the joint. I would take a small break to make sure you are not over exercising it and resume when you feel comfortable.

The best advice I can offer sir, is to take an Advil tablet before and after your work out. It could just be inflammation. Make sure it's ibuprofen (Advil), and not acetaminophen (Tylenol) or aspirin (Bayer). If it still hurts or the Advil doesn't do anything, it could be a deeper issue. If that's the case you may want to get it checked out. However, judging by what you've told us, I would suppose the doctors advice to be something like "Don't do leg curls over 60 lbs."

good luck

>>185

I should have added that I have previously injured this knee. I think it was about 8 years back doing leg extensions. Before I got to the full extension it just popped sideways. I never had it checked out, just limped around on crutches for a couple weeks until I could walk on it again.

>>186

The back of the knee is a tricky thing to exercise. Aside from leg curls I couldn't think of anything else to do.

>>187

Inflammation had crossed my mind from time to time. I'll try some ibuprofen and see if that calms it down. It's been looked at twice, once when I enlisted two years ago and again a little over a year ago, and both times was cleared as "stable." Although all they do is wiggle it around a little, not drop 60 pounds on my heel while I'm laying down. I guess common sense should tell me not to do more than 60 pounds, I just hate holding myself back like that when I know I should be moving up.

SAGE has been used.

How's your squat?

Going to say fish oil. IT helps reduce inflammation.

>>189
ooh yes, fish oil. I found a lot of my little joint tweaks alleviated when I started daily supplementing with the 3-6-9 omega oil.