I have captured a couple of pictures of my knee's MRI. Though nothing is torn or ruptured, there is damage. I am basically dealing with tendinitis (perhaps becoming more tendinosis) of the biceps femoris tendon (BFT) (see image below).
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| From http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/ |
Rehabilitation will involve analgesics (pain management), static and dynamic stretching, and eccentric exercises. I had to research the term "eccentric exercises", and specifically how it applies to the hamstring muscle complex (HMC).
Here are the MRI images, with the area of the BFT highlighted in the green box. You can only tell it is intact (good news), and therefore my pain is from tendinitis and not a torn BFT. The first image is more toward the front of the knee than the image which follows it:
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