Strange knee symptom
A couple of weeks ago I hurt my knee on a deadlift. I rested it for a couple of days and the symptoms of a muscle pain that stretched from my knee up my hammy was gone. I did some HIIT cardio on a treadmill about 4 times after this but didn’t lift legs or do deadlifts again. Then the symptoms came. There is no pain, discoloration or swelling, rather a weakness in my knee. Not when going up stairs or anything like that but more at like full extension. If I try to walk fast and extend my leg completely I feel this click feel in the back of my knee. Also, when I stand on it it feels really feable and the movement from slightly bent to lockout is really awkward and weak feeling. I’m resting it but I still have to walk on it. I sort of limp and not fully extend it but it hasn’t gotten better in a week.
Any ideas? It is my left, non-dominant knee, BTW.
Thanks.
3 comments
abdomega
Here is an update:
I went to an orthopeadic and he diagnosed me with a hamstring tendon strain. I am currently going to physical therapy to help with stretching and healing but apparently the click sensation will never go away.
The problem has gotten a little different lately though. There are tendons that go from the hammy to the front of the knee around the inside. I seemed to have aggravated this also. It is slightly tender but mainly when I do deadlifts, there is a sharp pain on the left lower part of my knee, where that tendon would be connecting.
I even dropped weight on my DL but the problem/pain remained. It stinks because my back is strong enough to lift a lot of weight but my knee keeps crapping out before I can do it. I stopped doing DLs for now for it to heal and I stretch my hammy out with different angles of my feet but this still stinks.
abdomega
Thank you!
Your concern with the intitial problem is not really needed. That may have been a pull or strain from that first attempt, but I stopped after that and the pain hasn’t come back. I went ahead and scheduled an appointment with my ortho. for the 4th. This really is a pain because I can’t do DLs, I can’t do legs, I can’t do HIIT or any cardio for that matter.
Thanks again!
ATsoccergirl
I almost think that you may have two differnt issues occuring. First with the knee, the inability to fully extend, and the clicking sound very much like a mensical tear of the posterior horn of the mensicus. Mensical tears are easily treated with arthroscopy. I am, however, far more concerned with your other symptoms. The weakness and pain extending into the hamstring sounds like you may have injured your back as well. Radiating, intermittant pain is a common symptom of a disc pathology. I think you need to be checked out by an orthopedic surgeon.