Joe Rogan opened up about a lingering knee injury during a recent JRE MMA Show conversation with UFC bantamweight Ethyn Ewing…
Describing meniscus damage severe enough to leave his leg locked mid-motion until it could be manually pushed back into place.
Rogan detailed a bucket handle tear he suffered years ago:
I have one that’s been scoped and it bothers me all the time. That’s the one I got shot up today.
It always bothers me. It’s like there’s missing padding on one side of it.
He described how the injury manifests during training:
I had a bucket handle tear and in Jiu-Jitsu it would lock and my leg would be stiff and I would have to like push it back into place.
It was excruciating.It would go back eventually, but sometimes it would take a day and it would swell up.
Rogan noted that stem cell treatment wasn’t available when he first got injured:
This is a long time ago. Unfortunately, there was no stem cells (treatment) available back then.
I would have 100% just done stem cells.
He also pointed to knees-over-toes style training and low-resistance stationary cycling as helpful tools:
It’s really good for getting the blood flow to the knees and really good for strengthening up the tendons and the ligaments and everything, but without load.
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