In September I was doing some house work as I was climbing up on to the kitchen sink and MUST HAVE of pulled muscle or ligament!!
Later on that day getting up from sitting down watching TV my knee was sorta of giving out. And going up staircase my knee was sorta going funny.
After getting up from sitting down for some time my knee was buckling, weak and sort of giving out!! And going up staircase my knee was sorta going funny.
It started in September and problem did not go away to the new year.
There was no pain or swelling so did not go see doctor about it. Now I’m scared to go up hill or do any house where I have to lift my leg up of fear it may come back.
Never did find out what happen to my knee other than it took time to heal. A buddy of mine said it could be number of things.
1 Pulled muscle or ligament around knee that sports the knee
2 Torn muscle or ligament
3 Weak muscle and ligament because of sedentary life style
4. Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
But Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) a tear in one of the knee ligaments that joins the upper leg bone with the lower leg bone . The ACL keeps the knee stable.
But my understanding ACL does not heal on it’s on and requires treatment by a doctor and always pain and swelling. But my knee took time to heal and ACL does not heal on it’s own.
I’m scared to go up hill or do any house where I have to lift my leg up!! Yes scared of fear it may come back!!
From what I understand talking to a buddy of mined is an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) do not heel on their own even a small one. Is this right? But a pulled muscle or pulled ligament do heel on their own?
I know many runners for first time get this and they have no knee injury well most of this is because they are for the first time are running. The only thing the ER is going to do is take X-ray and if there is no broken bone give you pain meds ,tell you to use ice on it and give you anti inflammatory medications and tell you to rest. But this for people who have pain and swelling.
The fact that this problem lasted from September to new year is odd. And there was no pain and swelling.
Go see an orthopedist. In addition to x-rays, there are a variety of ways they can test the movement of the knee to determine where the injury is. They can also recommend physical therapy exercises to help you strengthen whatever isn’t functioning properly.
Of course it doesn’t heal on it’s own. That’s like hoping a snapped rubber band with miraculously become whole. But that doesn’t mean you have pain and swelling for the rest of your life. I have a full tear ACL injury in one knee that was misdiagnosed. It healed to the point that I didn’t have pain or swelling but the knee has never been the same. My other knee has a partial tear of the ACL. I feel pain every now and then but not often. Been living with it for decades.
For full ACL reconstruction? Up to 6 months for full recovery. Since it didn’t happen at work I would have to burn at least several weeks of sick time, possibly going into long term disability. At best I would be on limited duty at work for a few months as I go through physical therapy. And it happened while I was in the Army so I’ll have to go through the VA which means I might come out of surgery with my arm amputated.
As **Loach **said, it’s a pretty significant surgery for a full ACL replacement. If they can’t reattach the existing torn ACL (which is probably true for one repaired right away) they take another ligament from elsewhere in you leg, making for a more significant surgery. My wife had full ACL replacement the year before we met and she had a quite significant recovery time. She had to plan for the surgery right at the end of her school year so it wouldn’t interfere with her teaching.
My wife recently had the ACL replacement surgery. They took a tendon from elsewhere in her leg and turned it into a ligament. She started PT 3 days after the surgery, was off crutches about 3 1/2 weeks after surgery. She wasn’t back to running the 40 in 4.5 seconds in 8 weeks, but she didn’t need to be. She did PT for about 12 weeks, but as a I said, she was moving on her own less than a month after her repair.
But if I understand Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) do not heal on it’s own yes even minor or small ACL. Where in my case it did heal on it’s on!! And I had no pain and swelling. Where Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) you have pain and swelling.
So it does not look like it is Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) ? And I had no injury just pulled muscle or pulled ligament?
If I had Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) I will still have this problem and I would have had pain and swelling.
No it did not heal. What I mean by that is tendons don’t grow back. But the initial trauma goes away, the swelling goes down and the pain goes away. Depending on how bad it is you can live with basically no change with a partial tear. It is just more likely that you can injure it worse latter since it’s no longer as strong. My knee that has half an ACL had to be scoped because the torn part was floping around in the joint and causing irritation. He snipped it and nothing further was needed. The other knee has no ACL left and I haven’t had swelling in over 20 years and just occasional pain. It didn’t heal. It will never get better. But as long as I don’t ski or play basketball it’s mostly alright.
Seeing a physical therapist or an orthopedic would only be for a peace of mind if there was some thing mechanically wrong with knee with ability to perform in a sport. Like a fall injury that happened when I was kid and do not remember it.
I can stand, walk, stand on one leg, go up the stairs and also butterfly pose.
And leg rise.
No problem doing any of this!!!
So does this sound like I had Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL). Or past injury I do not remember when I was a kid?
I read some thing that people who have a sedentary lifestyle may have week muscles could lead to knee buckling or sort of giving out if you don’t really use those muscles. and than you start to use it. Like people who start with deep squats from start than say people that start with not so deep squats or too high of a leg rise from the start.
So take sport like climbing, running, basketball,football, rugby or Judo or Karate. A person who has a very sedentary lifestyle may have major problems ( weak hardly use muscles) and may have to start with knee strengthening exercises first. Or could lead to knee buckling or sort of giving out or feeling weak.
Not sure if it true or not but that may what happen to me.
I came off a bicycle and couldn’t lift my toes with the heel still on the ground. It made walking long distances painful but other than that, no pain at all. It healed in two months or so.
With the other knee I tore the ACL and it was absolute agony, I couldn’t put any weight on it at all. The doctor at first thought I’d torn the ACL completely but after a scan he said it’d take a few months to heal on its own without need for surgery (just a plastic full leg brace for support).
Yes that is what I thought from reading is that ACL always cause pain. If you doing sports were ACL happen the most you know you got injured and you have put ice on it. It be hot, swollen and red.
In my case I had none of that.
In my case my knee was sorta of buckling, weak and sort of giving out when sitting and getting up!! But the strange thing is if I walked around it helped. If I got up from couch and stand for minute and walked around it gone away. But if I sit for some time than got up it came back.
Not so much if I was laying down than got up but sitting for some time than got up. very strange.
Sweat, what you’ve described is almost word for word what my ex went through when she tore her meniscus. Have you gotten yourself to a physician yet? If not, GO! already. If for no other reason than at least you will know and not be guessing.
Yeah you are not going to find out on a message board. I’ve had two ACL injuries. One blew up like a basketball. The other didn’t swell at all. The one that didnt swell the doctor thought it was a meniscus tear but when he scoped it he found a partial ACL tear and the meniscus was fine.
What happened to the op is exactly what happened to me last week. I stepped off the counter top, painting, and a little later noticed pain coming from my right, inner knee.
It really got bad the next morning after not moving all night, so I went to the doctor, who diagnosed it as torn meniscus. No redness, no swelling.
Doctor sent me to physiotherapist who agreed, torn meniscus.
Recovery is slow but steady.
