Knee pain.. Cartiledge tear?
(3 discussions)
Ok, here are my symptoms. Pain on the outside of my left knee that is sharp only when I’ve squatted to the point where my legs are at 90 degrees. Any other motion, the knee feels fine (haven’t tried running on it). The other sympton is that during a prolonged period of sitting, in a chair for instance, my knee will start to ache and is releaved when I straighten my leg out and my knee goes “POP”. I thought it might be my LCL but the symptons on this site sort of pointed to a cartiledge tear. Any ideas?
3 comments
idafebri
Dear Sandy,
I don’t think your case will be the LCL. Do you feel strange when you walk? Feel like going to fall? If you do, then perhaps your problem is the menicus. If this is happened for a long time alreday, you will feel that your knee is locked. You can’t move, bend or straighten your knee. You will feel pain at the position from a prolonged sitting to standing or vice versa. Maybe you should do the arthroscopy. I have done it, and I feel better. Hope this can relive you.
Sandy
Hmm.. going down stairs doesn’t hurt. Running up stairs doesn’t hurt.
One other exercise that makes it hurt is lunges and not until my leg is about 90 degrees.
I was running on asphalt for about a month before and right before, I was moving into a new apartment so its possibly from the carrying heavy sh!t up stairs.
From what I can gather, putting a load on the knee joint ONLY when its bent to about 90 degrees is whats causing the pain.
Oh, one other thing. Leg Extensions or Curls cause NO pain. I was doing 190lbs on the leg extentions today (which is about 50lbs less than my body weight) and I felt no pain. very curious.
As soon as I can, Im gonna go get meself an MRI
sarah_g91
Sandy,
Just a guess, but when I injured my knee my physio pushed my knee into me so it was bent as much as it could bend and said that if it was cartilage I would have hit the roof at that point.
So to me pain at 90 degrees doesn’t sound like cartilage.
I have pain that sounds a little like yours, does it hurt when you walk, just as your knee gets to a certain angle? Going downstairs being particularly painful! And had you been running before the pain started. For years I thought I had arthritis, it felt like it was the bone right by the joint that was the bit that hurt.
I just discovered I have a tight IT band.
Like I said I don’t know much about it, but I am sure someone else who does will add their comments to this and /or correct me if I’m wrong.
But if you can you should really see a profesional if it doesn’t go away, rather that guess. If you guess wrong you could do more harm than good.
I hope you can sort it out.
Sarah.