Help with Knee Injury

[Joffa]

About 2 months ago, I was coming out yankee stadium after a rain delay game and the steps were wet. I slipped down the steps but caught myself and landed on my feet; however, I landed in a crouched position and I felt pain in my knee. I did not hear or feel a "pop", just pain. It does not hurt when I walk or do any regular day to day activities. The only time I feel pain is when I squat. I was hoping it would go away, but it's been almost 2 months and it hasn't healed I've been doing light weight 1 legged presses on the leg press machine and stretching it for over a month now; still no effect. I've also been speaking to an athletic coach at my school about it. He thinks I should have it checked out by a doc and possibly might need some "scoping" done to clean the debris off my tendon. The pain feels like it is directly inside my knee, possibly on the patella. Any advice on this? Should I just keep gradually strengthening my leg and stretching it alot, or should I go get it checked out?

~Joffa

 

[bg65]

go get it checked out, you don't want to mess with your knees...I know from experience, if it's mild, then they will probably just have you do physical therapy

 

[Griffin]

Definatly have it looked at, I hade a simmelor knee problem a couple years ago. It hurt inside the knee, even walking up stairs and their was and still is a slight grinding noise. I had it exraid and the doc said their was nothing wrong that she could see. I decided to take a couple months off of leg work and it got alittle better so I started working legs again and started off light and high reps, only squates and legpress though because leg extensions seamed to make the pain worse. It took about a year befor I could stars going heavy again with no pain. The grinding is still their but it is not to bad.

 

[IPlayRugby18]

Like BG and Griffin said, have it checked out. During a football game in high school I hurt my knee. After having an MRI I found out I had 70% tears to three out of four ligaments in my knee and cartilage damage (MCL-inside of the knee, ACL and PCL- located in the middle of the knee and also known as cruciate ligaments due to it supporting the knee and how they cross like an X under the kneecap.) Get an MRI, that's the only way they can tell what's wrong. After hurting my knee and still to this day, if I squat too low I get pain and this is years later.

Also, I advise against the surgery if you have to get any ligament repair...doctors can't say you'll be 100% or even 90%, a buddy of mine had the surgery and he was a mess for a long time...I went to rehab for a few weeks, played in my last game of the season than ran track in the spring. That was the end of my senior year. Than I went on to play rugby for my university. To make a long story short, I advise rehab over the surgery!

Remember the way to strengthen the knee and help out those tendons is to workout the muscles surrounding the knee (quads, hamstrings and calves) Besides, if you do squats really low, you don't have to...all you're doing is putting too much of a load on your knee. In kinematics, it's called load bearing. You're ligaments will hate you for it over time. Take a rubber band and picture it attached to your quad and your shin, than bend your leg so that its at 10 degrees (that would be if you squated low. Look at the rubber band...doesn't it look severely over stretched? Good luck bro. sorry for the rambling...that's just my .02

 

[Joffa]

thanks for the input everbody. BTW, for the past 2 months it would only hurt if I squatted or did leg work, but the last couple days sometimes I feel pain even just walking around :-\ I'm going to the university doc on thursday to get it checked out. I'll let you know how it turns out. Also, in the mean time, should I keep icing it after workouts? Does icing really help?

~Joffa

 

[Joffa]

I went to campus doc on thursday and she examined my knee. She couldn't find anything from external examination, so she is sending me to orthopedics at the medical school nearby to have it checked.

~Joffa

 

[patsfan]

About 2 months ago, I was coming out yankee stadium after a rain delay game and the steps were wet. I slipped down the steps but caught myself and landed on my feet; however, I landed in a crouched position and I felt pain in my knee. I did not hear or feel a "pop", just pain. It does not hurt when I walk or do any regular day to day activities. The only time I feel pain is when I squat. I was hoping it would go away, but it's been almost 2 months and it hasn't healed I've been doing light weight 1 legged presses on the leg press machine and stretching it for over a month now; still no effect. I've also been speaking to an athletic coach at my school about it. He thinks I should have it checked out by a doc and possibly might need some "scoping" done to clean the debris off my tendon. The pain feels like it is directly inside my knee, possibly on the patella. Any advice on this? Should I just keep gradually strengthening my leg and stretching it alot, or should I go get it checked out?

~Joffa

I just had the exact same thing happen 3 weeks ago..kneeling down to get a shoe out of the back of my closet and something snapped ( I could hardly stand up)...

Now It's been tender for about 6 months and a few days I just had to stop in the middle of a squat session and call it a day but now it hurts putting 50lbs on the leg extension when 3 weeks ago 300 was no problem...I'm taking it easy and doing calves and leg curls dont seem to bother it but lunges,presses, deads and squats are out of the question...I bought a brace at Wal-Mart and In a few weeks I'm gonna start back with light presses and take it from there.

If it's still bad, then it's time to see the doc.