Plica Syndrome?

[flenser]

My 17yo step daughter has been diagnosed with it. The doc told her to ice it and stay off it, do nothing that hurts, and see him in four weeks. Four weeks later with no improvement, same orders and see him in 6 weeks.

She's an avid crossfitter, but did follow his orders - she's very in to pullups lately. Played a lot of soccer when she was younger, and had a similar if not the same knee pain then. Now she has pain just walking around between classes. I want to get her away from that doc, but it's not my call.

Anyone ever deal with this? Sitting around and doing nothing for 6 weeks doesn't seem right to me, especially after sitting around doing nothing for four weeks didn't help.

 

[hotdog23]

What kind of doc is he? She should go sports medicine. Never heard of plica

 

[flenser]

He's the standard orthopedic surgeon/sports doc. I went to my share of them before I found the one I use now. Most of them are medicare mills, and wouldn't know the first thing about treating a real sports injury.

Plica is connective tissue in the knee that about half of us have. It's not needed for normal knee function. I guess for most of us it gets absorbed sometime before birth. When it gets inflamed they call it plica syndrome and apparently ignore the patient afterwards.