Knee injury
(6 discussions)
Injured knee while running. Scan showed wear and tear to medial and lateral meniscus plus a tear. Surgeon said not worth operating on!! Stopped all weight bearing excercise and been cycling and building up the supporting muscles. Knee more stable, but still hurts 8 months after injury. Doctor has just prescribed “Suplasyn” synovial fluid injections. Don’t know anything about this. Anyone had anything similar??
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chrispa
I had to do 2 + 3 you listed for my physio. It’s been about 6 months or so since I did my injury, though feels like a lifetime! Specialist sent me packing, saying my MRI was clean, no damage WHATSOEVER but that my knee was weak due to lack of exercise. Currently trying to build the muscles up in the same way as yourself, and am taking Glucosamine 1500mg. Knee still hurts sometimes on the patella and also less frequently on the medial, but original torn ligament is fine. So I guess it’s a LONG road to recovery – I played my first football (soccer) match last week after 7 months and didnt feel any adverse reaction, though it was on Astro-Turf, which is probably good for shock absobing. I just hope I fully recover as I’m worried that the slight pain in my knee after exercise could be something more serious. Only time will tell.
I wish you good luck, as I know what your going through – I actually busted my knee a week after splitting up with my ex-g/f of 4 yrs, and sport was the only thing keeping me sane! Patience I think is the key, along with dedication and hard work, it’ll come back.
Cheers,
Chris
anfhuaran
I have just been to see a phsio at Scotlands Sports Medicine centre, after havingmy knee scanned, x rayed etc and been told Ihad osteoarthurtis etc etc. The phsio reckons mine’s a knee cap tracking problem and gave me the following to do to strenghten the inside of the knee
All carried out at least four times a day with 100 reps of each. It takes ages, but it seems to be helping.All done for both knees
1 Lunges while holding weights
2 Leaning against a wall feet shoulder width apart, just bending the knees to right angles and sliding up again
3 sitting onthe floor with a rolled up towel under the knees. flex knee straight and hold, with feet turned up.
4 Bench press with 30k or less. Push out with both feet, but return the press using one leg only.
No running on tarmac!!
1 Lunges
anfhuaran
I have just been to see a phsio at Scotlands Sports Medicine centre, after havingmy knee scanned, x rayed etc and been told Ihad osteoarthurtis etc etc. The phsio reckons mine’s a knee cap tracking problem and gave me the following to do to strenghten the inside of the knee
All carried out at least four times a day with 100 reps of each. It takes ages, but it seems to be helping.All done for both knees
1 Lunges while holding weights
2 Leaning against a wall feet shoulder width apart, just bending the knees to right angles and sliding up again
3 sitting onthe floor with a rolled up towel under the knees. flex knee straight and hold, with feet turned up.
4 Bench press with 30k or less. Push out with both feet, but return the press using one leg only.
No running on tarmac!!
1 Lunges
Anonymous
I injured my knee in a car wreck two years ago. I still am having trouble with swelling and week muscles on the inside of my right knee. Does anyone know what I can do to strengthen the inside muscle around the knee cap area. Any suggestions please!
chrispa
I too have this problem currently Belle, so totally sympathise, I’m just really scared I’ll never recover, or that I’ll get arthritis early, or something. I get the results of my MRI tomorrow – am really scared bout what he’ll say!
How long did it take you to recover from first seeking speciallist treatment?
Cheers,
Chris
Belle
I had an injury to the medial collateral ligament that caused the whole knee to become unstable–including the lateral collateral ligament eventually. I looked clean on the MRI but upon examination, it was very lax. Through ignorance I carried on with my weight training including pushing over 250 lbs on the 45 degree leg press and squats weighted. It just went from bad to worse really so I stopped that and saw my Doctor.
I was referred to a Sports Injury specialist and we had the MRI done at that point. I showed only some fluid on the knee cap at that point and he seemed to think I had the early beginnings of osteoarthritis because of the injury. He then referred me to physio as he said there was no op neded as no ligament torn.
She said that the ligament had healed but that with the swelling that had occured, the fluid on the knee had weakened the inner thigh muscle. If there is more than 20-30 mls of fluid accumulate in your knee due to injury, it weakens the inner thigh muscle, but there has to be over 50-60mls of fluid for it to impact on the outer thigh muscle. So because I carried on weight training, it had strengthened the outer thigh muscle which then became more dominant. This made my knee cap track improperly over the bones behind the knee and caused bone bruise on the under side knee cap (bloody painful I can tell you after exercise) and arthritic type pain. You can actually develop arthritis if you don’t consult a physio and work on strengthening the right muscles.
There are four muscles in the quads that all attached to the patella (knee cap). The inner thigh muscles are supposed to pull the knee cap inwards and upwards towards the groin. If there is an imbalance in those muscles at any time, the outer thigh muscle can dominate and pulls the knee cap out of it’s groove and towards the outer hip. because of this it rubs the bones as it moves back and forth. So doing a lot of running and flexing and repetative stuff on it causes excess friction, bone bruise and pain and swelling also. See how it is easy for one injury to lead to other things happening? It’s called patellar femoral syndrome or better known as Non-Specific Knee pain.
Exercises to strengthen the inner thigh muscles are shown to you during physio and how to avoid building the outer thigh muscle for the time being. Heat treatment for the ahces and pains and to keep good blood flow to the knee for repair of your ligaments on either side. Take 1500mg of glucosamine and MSM also daily and vitamin c is a good one to also take for tissue repair. Don’t do weight training and stop all activity on the knee until you get that muscle sorted out if it is this causing the ongoing pain. takes 3-4 weeks to retrain the muscle, then you can do weight bearing and build strength back up slowly–light weights. Glucosamine takes a while to start working so don’t expect miracles over night.
Pain is your body’s way of telling you to rest and slow down and HEAL. Not so much that you seize up, but certainly avoid the things that make it worse until it is well healed. Now two months later my knee is 95 healed and getting better every day. I avoided cycling and running until now and concentrated on my upper body where strength training was concerned in that time and did swimming for cardio. No weight bearing in swimming and nice gentle slow movements so doesn’t aggravate it as much.
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~*Belle*~