Question about a Knee Injury

[Dew k. Mosi]

I hurt my left knee about 11 years ago during a play (I slipped on the curtain and landed squarely on the patella.) X-rays showed no bone damage, but I obviously did something drastic to it, because it swelled up like an apple. Now, so many years later, it still has a tendancy to go out for no reason whatsoever.

I have started my summer job of working at the drink stand at the theme park and the long hours of standing, as well as the increased amount of walking, have started to cause me some problems. My knee is swollen and even with my brace on it just has an general feeling of weakness to it.

My question is, does anyone have a better way to prevent my knee from getting reinjured, except for the brace and icing it at night? I am afraid that eventually I may need surgery on it.

 

[Tsunulia]

You could try wearing the spandex knee brace and put an icyhot patch in it while you work.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

You could try wearing the spandex knee brace and put an icyhot patch in it while you work.

I wear the brace at work, but I never thought of the patch. I may try that

 

[Silverstein]

Try the patch like she said, and also...when you get off of work. Lay your leg out and put tiger balm on it. I know that's more of a muscle thing...but it might help your knee.

You should go to the doctor again, maybe there was a hairline fracture that no one ever saw or maybe you dislocated it or something and it healed wrong. Things like that really piss me off because it's not fair. It was eleven years ago, you should be healed by now. You don't deserve that pain. It's times like this when I wish I was a doctor.

I'm not going to go into it but things like that have effected my family. Who would guess that a simple broken leg would cause someone their life? Like I said, it's just not fair. You pay your time, you should heal. There should be no other complications.

 

[Batty for Bats!]

Yeah Dew, try the patch, I'd try and shift my body weight to one side. That may also cause you back problems though... and wouldn't a hairline fracture have healed by now?

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

I realize too that the extra weight I am carrying isn't helping, but since I am not morbidly obese it shouldn't do as much damage as I feel is being done.

 

[ookami]

I did sorta the same thing with my knee. I got a knee brace with magnets in it and it warms around your knee and my flexibility got better. Also try putting a pillow under your knee and a heating pad on top. Doctors don't know crap btw always get a 2nd, 3rd and 4th opinion.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

Really, the magents help? I've heard about that and my mother was considering a magnetic brace to help with her carpal tunnel

 

[Tsunulia]

I see the magnet bracelets everywhere but I've never tried them.

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

Knee injurys are something that can stay with you for life, i torn the cartilage in my knee up and they had to remove it, doctor said that by the time i'm 30 (I'm 23 now) i will need to have a knee replacement.
but i find that ice, sitting down for about 10 min, and Ibubrophen help alot.

 

[ookami]

Really, the magents help? I've heard about that and my mother was considering a magnetic brace to help with her carpal tunnel

Yeah Dew they work pretty good, they provide mobile heat to the joints, but you should try sitting ever so often too, the pressure is murder on the knees.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

It's usually pretty ok after a rest, but I sleep in a loft bed, so when I climb down either to give my cats breakfast at 5 am (yes, the little bastards got me well trained) or when I first get up in the morning, my leg is so stiff I feel like it is made of wood

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

also if you can, go in for an MRI of your knee, because when they did the X-ray of my knee they didn't see all the damage. so they may have missed something before.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

What is this crap? "ELEVEN years ago"?
This guy who lives at my work was just in bed for a week and a half. I asked him what happened and he said "I had a bad back injury TEN years ago, and it just flared up out of nowhere."

Then, just the other day, my female friend, who had to get a guava-sized benign tumor removed from her uterine area, TWO years ago, called me to complain about how her TWO year old scar just flared up with a staph infection!

What a nightmare.
I don't know...professional...knee-therapy?
Jeez!

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

Well, from what I've heard from various sources including the Discovery Channel, there is evidence that human beings aren't properly built to be bipedal. That the damage that even small injuries to the knee and the back do is evidence that we would be more suited to quadrapedal life, despite the evolution that shortened the length of our arms.

Someday I may have to use a cane. Do you think I should get the kind with a sword in it?

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

Well, from what I've heard from various sources including the Discovery Channel, there is evidence that human beings aren't properly built to be bipedal. That the damage that even small injuries to the knee and the back do is evidence that we would be more suited to quadrapedal life, despite the evolution that shortened the length of our arms.

Someday I may have to use a cane. Do you think I should get the kind with a sword in it?

i would go with the one with a gun in it but thats just me.

but you should have an MRI if its as bad as you say it is.

 

[logansoldcigar]

when I first get up in the morning, my leg is so stiff I feel like it is made of wood

thats similar to a problem i have most mornings......

errrrrrmmmmmmm i mean, sometimes, there is no visible damage, but a joint remains permanently weakened. i knckered my left ankle when i were a sprog, and it still goes occasionally, even tho its medically sound.

If i were you, i would get down the gym and build up the musckle base round the knee...thatll be the best thing you can do

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Well, from what I've heard from various sources including the Discovery Channel, there is evidence that human beings aren't properly built to be bipedal. That the damage that even small injuries to the knee and the back do is evidence that we would be more suited to quadrapedal life, despite the evolution that shortened the length of our arms.

Someday I may have to use a cane. Do you think I should get the kind with a sword in it?

Sword-Canes are deceptive. Just take to walking on all fours before you screw your carriage up beyond repair.
Maybe you can arrive at a happy medium with your bones?

Truthfully, a high-speed, motorized wheelchair could be your passport out of this mess, though no one likes to contemplate fates like that.

mmmmmm....SWORD CANE!

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

thats similar to a problem i have most mornings......

errrrrrmmmmmmm i mean, sometimes, there is no visible damage, but a joint remains permanently weakened. i knckered my left ankle when i were a sprog, and it still goes occasionally, even tho its medically sound.

If i were you, i would get down the gym and build up the musckle base round the knee...thatll be the best thing you can do

unless she tore a tenden or ligiment then she would be doing more damage to it.

 

[logansoldcigar]

they would have done well not to notice that 11 years ago, and she doesnt mention any other accidents

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

they would have done well not to notice that 11 years ago, and she doesnt mention any other accidents

it could have been something small that was missed at the time that got bigger over the years.
so i would say get the MRI before doing anything to the knee to find out just what is wrong with it.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

the miracle of the human body

 

[Spider-X]

you'll need an old priest and a young priest...

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

i knckered my left ankle when i were a sprog, and it still goes occasionally, even tho its medically sound.

How terribly british

 

[NDX]

During my student teaching, I used a muscle rub around 3 times a week on my knees. They took a decent beating, standing all day and walking around with students, putting up works of art and travelling stairs. I don't need a brace for either of my knees (yet), but it was murder on my ankle, even with a brace.

There could cartilage damage (or a complete lack of cartilage) im your knee, and you should get that checked out to see the overall wear on it. Then you can get a better idea at what you need to do (bracing it and medicating it, draining it if there is a liquid build up, 'scoping it to remove damaged cartilage and rebuild it, or all out replacement surgery).