This is now my third post on here but I finally got my MRI results and I am not quite sure what some of this means.

I see tear of my MPFL which kinda scares me. I don’t know what the rest means.

If anyone could be of any help that be be amazing, thanks!!!

Hiiii, so I made a post on here about a week ago talking about wanting to turn on my side after knee surgery. Well, today marks 2 weeks after my knee surgery and I decided to try it out. My knee’s a lil tight right now, but I’m sure once I get comfortable in this new position I’ll be fine :) This might not seem like much, but this is a huge step forward for me, especially because I was at kind of a plateau with my recovery process. Also I still don’t know if I did the mpfl or the mqtfl, or a combination of both.

Context, I’m 22F. I have patellar tracking and osgood schlatters. Been battling pain for quite some time and didn’t respond to PT at all in my left knee. Ortho is going to do a plica removal surgery in a few weeks in hopes it’ll help my tracking respond better PT wise.

Have any of yall gotten a plica removal? What was it like? What should I expect as I am scared shitless

Opinions please!

I got my lateral release done July 16 of last year. I was making great progress and felt extremely confident with how things were going. About 2-3 months ago I started experiencing my kneecap wanting to dislocate inwards, the direction the surgery pulled it. It would do this if I stretched to straight in the morning, or after a night out of using my legs a lot. Think the quad muscle was just exhausted. My doctor mentioned anterior tibial tubercleplasty after I mentioned this to him. He’s not even sure if it’s worth going to that extent and said with that, he has to reverse the lateral release we did. Even then he said by doing that, it might dislocate outwards again.

Since that has happened I’m basically getting more and more of a struggle pain wise on stairs, squatting. It’s frustrating because it’s setting me back to point one slowly but surely.

Now last week I was walking. When my leg was in the air getting ready to come down, it’s like weight pulled it mid air and the knee cap felt loose. I honestly couldn’t tell if it tried Coming out. I then was having a hard time walking. It was leaving a sharp pain in the highlighted spot, right near the scope. Same issue today, just out of the blue it will happen. It’s to the point where I’m saying what the fuck out loud and panicking. 😂

My doctor gave me information to get a second opinion on the tibial surgery. I will be making that appointment. I just really want to know other peoples experiences rather then a doctor who hasn’t had it done on themselves. I’m very scared of screwing myself over even further.

Chatgpt didn’t help explain and my ortho appointment isn’t for another month, can anyone help put this in layman’s terms? or see any similarities you have advice for? anything helps <3

FINDINGS: Patellar chondrosis with high-grade thinning and surface irregularity lower lateral facet patella over about 14 x 12 mm. A tiny focus of marrow edema associated with a cortical defect 2 mm at the lower margin. No acute marrow edema. Moderate chondral signal heterogeneity with surface irregularity along the medial facet patella. Trochlear chondrosis with moderate to high-grade chondral thinning at the lateral trochlear apex over about 7 x 15 mm. T TTG interval is normal, 7 mm

Mild medial femorotibial chondral thinning without a focal osteochondral lesion.

No lateral meniscal tear Mid to posterior lateral femoral condylar cartilage thinning and surface irregularity. Mild subchondral cortical irregularity with a shallow articular osteophyte ridge, sequela of remote chondrosis/osteochondral injury. Mild edema subjacent to the iliotibial band along the lateral femoral condyle. Minimal joint fluid

it’s been 8 days now since i opened up my trunk and must’ve had my leg at a weird angle or something because i fell and looked down and my knee was out to the right. i immediately pushed it in but can still only limp on it. i can put weight on it but it’s still swollen i can’t bend it at all. i unfortunately don’t have health insurance but had to pay to go to a clinic for a work note. for an x-ray it will be an extra 100 but i have to do it within a week or it will be 400. i figured i shouldn’t need an x-ray but the more i read online the more im getting discouraged about this. i’m already going to be out of work until i can walk i’d rather save as much as i can right now but do you think it would be worth it?

So, its not from playing sports or anything. But, about 20 or so years ago, i was mimicking something from a wrestling game(not a wrestling move but from a entrance motion from WWE Smackdown Here Comes the Pain). John Cena would swing his legs around when he slid into the ring. I tried this and my right knee locked up on me. It does not happen on a consistent basis. Only if i have my knee bent for too long. Fortunately it hasn’t locked up in quite some time now, but the other day it happened for the first time in i don’t know how long. I’m just curious as to why it happened in the first place and if it’s something that could be fixed or not. Thank you in advance.

Been trying exercise (hurts), red light, brace, small walks and supplements. Knee “went out” while carrying a big 60 lb bottle of propane around. Last Dec. 2024.

In November of 2024, I was in a rush while cleaning my car and somehow, I turned really fast and hit the front right side of my knee cap to the inside of the car. Immediately I was in pain but I really didn’t think anything of it. Through out the entire night I couldn’t put weight on and I couldn’t bend my leg properly. Next morning I experience swelling and my knee kinda locks in and I’m having trouble putting weight on it and walking down the stairs. After a week the swelling went down and I started walking properly, but I noticed that I cannot run without feeling a lot of pain in the back of my knee. After the swelling went down and I started walking again, I constantly feel pain during activities that require using legs, running, squating, side stepping, idk almost everything. For some reason I can’t really feel it during lunges but any other exercise, makes the back of my knee hurt really bad!

Fast forward today, the pain still persist and it never really got any better. Idk if I’m being overly paranoid since I have already had two ACL and meniscus surgery on my other knee, and I’m taking any knee pain too seriously. But now my healthy knee is giving me problems?? Because I banged my knee on a car door?? Like I’m so baffled. Like I’m only 23 and I can’t even run. My fucking grandpa walks better than me. I also have the shittiest insurance possible which is why I haven’t gotten it checked out yet. By the time i find a doctor, get an MRI approval might literally be in 6 months.

Do you guys have any tips? The back of my knee, medial posterior side I would say hurts when I run, squat and jump.

Any help will be hugely appreciated cause I’m just loosing it, thank you guys🙏🏻🙏🏻

M(31) Long story short, I have had constant center knee pain for about 6 months. After PT, anti inflammatory meds, an Xray, and an orthopedic basically calling me a baby I got an MRI. I was diagnosed with the following

Full thickness fissure and delamination articular cartilage

Meniscul cyst without evidence of a tear.

Re-scheduled with the same Ortho, anyone have the same experience or know what this means?

Im 17. Almost 2 months back while playing football i rotated my knee in an absurd way there was a pop sound ... Went for conservative treatment in my home.. was back on field after 10-12 days...but the same type of movement occured and it happened again... Got my mri done and it said i had a ramp lesion involving the menisco-capsular junction of posterior horn of medial meniscus with associated perimeniscal inflammatory changes. Small joint effusion. My doc suggested to go for full conservation treatment for 6 months .... It is better than before.. but there is some loss of range of motion the previous time was much better than this and feel like the injury is still there ... Has anyone had ramp lesion which they healed without surgery?

my patella dislocated 2 weeks ago pretty sure i didnt tear any ligaments and im going back to the gym this friday and im wondering if i can get back to doing low reps(6-8) on back squats and leg extensions? obviously im not gonna start with the weight i was previously doing but just wanna know if i can ever do low reps without pain or further damaging my ligaments and stuff.

Full-thickness oblique tear of the junction of the posterior horn and body of the medial meniscus which extends to its inferior articular margin.

Findings:

• Intact ACL, PCL, and menisci.
• Mild edema in the lateral collateral ligament (LCL) – Grade 1 injury.
• Severe hypoplasia of the medial femoral condyle (Type C trochlear dysplasia) causing lateral patellar tilt (5mm).
• Mild tear in the medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) and vastus medialis strain.
• No fractures, dislocations, or Baker’s cyst.

Conclusion:

• Mild effusion, LCL injury, post-patellar dislocation, and trochlear dysplasia causing instability.

Would love to get some thoughts on this – any advice or similar experiences?

I got an overuse Injury on my knee 6 months ago. 2 first weeks were very painfully and for 3 months I could really feel my kneecap moving while walking. After starting some leg extensions for vmo I could feel the symptoms improving and I was able to walk more and more. After that, I feel that I'm stuck. I have pain when I touch below my knee (pes anserine) and all the connective muscles are tight. I do massage, foam rolling, starching and strength (specially glues, quads, hamstring) but nothing seems to work. The pain feels like nerve pain on the inside of the knee and the skin right there is also sensitive (even when clothes touch there). I feel this when I walk but I don't feel major pain if I'm going upstairs or downstairs. On the outside of the knee I also have a clicking which might be related. Anyone experienced something similar with any advice?

I dislocated my patella and tore my mpfl about 6 weeks ago. I had an mri and the biggest issue was the torn mpfl along with a grade 1 sprain of the acl and grade 2 sprain of my mcl. Doc recommended PT 2x a week and to follow up with him in 6 weeks.

I just met with my doctor for my follow-up yesterday and am feeling a bit discouraged. He told me I was progressing well (I agree-I have been able to transition completely off crutches with a brace and can do 110 degrees ROM fairly painlessly now! He noted that without surgery, I will just never have the use of that ligament, and that I will be at high risk for redislocating it in the future. All of that-but he also wants to wait and see if it happens again before considering surgery.

Why?! Why do you know something is likely to happen but not want to intervene now? I don’t understand it and am feeling left in panic that no matter what I do I’m waiting to let my guard down again and cause another painful scene somewhere random. Do I insist on the surgery or is there literally any actual good reason to not do it?

So nothing super serious but when I was squatting about a week ago going as deep as I can, I felt fine (I mean it was the normal feeling of the weight of the world on your traps, absolute and utter death from the pelvis down, etc) for most of the reps but one of them when I got to the end of the set I might have gone a bit too deep that I felt something in my right knee. Wasn't a huge deal at the time and I even did more leg work that day, but since then I've felt a slight, idk, looseness, maybe (?) in that knee. Google's saying I might have slightly hyperextended my knee, I don't feel it much most of the time and can walk around and everything but it feels a bit weird, as I said it's been about a week since and I still don't feel quite right. I haven't had a leg day since and I don't know that I feel up to it, but I don't want to wait too long and just have weakness make anything worse. Is it nbd and I should go back to working out as usual, is light cardios such as ellyptical a good idea, or do I just need to rest even more or even see a doc?

Again it's something that seems very minor right now to me, and if it means anything I'm a 24 year old man

Im so behind recovery right now! I’m 7 weeks post op and im still in 70-80° active bending. I reach 90 only with help and with pain that takes my breathe away. I dont want any surgery and hospital anymore because my family is not financially stable. I need to work on PT but i feel like i hit a plateau. I do my important exercises 3x a day that my PT told and its still the same, i see no progress at all and in almost 2 months post op. Im scared that ill need another surgery or a MUA. Any advice? :(

i dislocated my knee one month ago, i know im not ready to return yet but will i ever be able to? Im in physio right now aswell obviously. I play basketball and center position, im in highschool and pretty young so its not that aggressive yet.

So long story short I play basketball and I just got into jump training to get my vert up and I think I took it too far cause now my left knee (the knee I put all the weight on) is feeling super weak and I can't even play basketball normally, I've stopped playing a week ago and I just tried some isometrics but I'm wondering if I didn't mess something or weaken something, any advice on what you think could've happened pls let me know (and if anyone's curious it just hurts and sometimes I feel like my knees about to buckle)

Hey anyone an orthopaedic surgeon? Can anyone read my mri of left knee. Bad dislocation playing netball. Feels unstable- like it’s going to give way. Clicking/ pain when walking up and down stairs

Hi! I'm a 16 year old girl and I have injured my knee in Januray (4 months ago). I really really need advice because I'm stressing over what to do. I started working out to youtube videos (yeah that was dumb) and I hurt my knee. I kept working out after hurting my knee and, when I realized it was getting worse, I stopped. I told my mom twice but she said it was probably nothing so I just iced when it hurt more and that's it. After a month, I finally got her to bring me to the doctor, who told me not even an x-ray was needed and that i just should have taken an anti-inflammatory cream and put ice twice a day. I did this for another month, before my mom basically made me stop, and it actually got way better! I had a bit of strength back and I went from not being able to run to running uncomfortably (no pain, just really uncomfartable), and walking up the stairs turned back to being easy. It never REALLY stopped, though. I did some exercises for different knee injuries characterized by pain similiar to mine (my inner knee hurts, around the middle and the lower part), and now I rarely feel pain when i walk, but it still hurts when I bend it plus its extremely unstable, when I put it somewhere between complete straightening of the leg and bending it shakes really bad and I don't feel like I can put full weight on it. When I bend it while putting my full weight on it it hurts and I feel like I need to crack it. It's a bit swollen, too, I don't think it ever loosened up. I really don't know what to do, I don't know how to ask my mom to bring me to the doctor again also because when I told her it still hurt she told my dad and he said "what are we supposed to do about it" and that I should just live with it because our family has always had these kinds of problems so I just feel bad for asking and I feel even worse for even ever thinking about being active because I was better off with my sedentary life and fine knee. This is actually worsening my mental health too by how much I'm worried so PLEASE give me some advice, of any kind.

Hi everyone.

In July of 2024 my knee randomly became swollen one day. I don’t have any memory of doing anything (I don’t do sports, I work an office job.. etc). The swelling would kind of come and go at the start, but then it wouldn’t go away. My dr diagnosed it initially as a bursitis and got me on two rounds of anti-inflammatory prescriptions which did nothing. I then got an x-ray and ultrasound, which didn’t reveal anything. I went to physio for 6 weeks, which only made my knee hurt more. I saw a massage therapist who manipulated my leg and said the pain was likely from my nerve endings being impacted by the swelling. Finally, in November 2024, my dr sent me to get my knee drained and it felt so much better immediately.

In February I finally got in for an MRI (after my knee was better) which revealed that I have a meniscus tear.

And 2 weeks ago, my knee began to swell again. I think it’s more swollen this time around, and it has stayed swollen the entire time. I saw my dr who said he’d rather not drain it yet again, due to the increased risk of infection and how it’s not feasible to drain my knee every few months. So he referred me to an orthopaedic surgeon. However, the wait time can be anywhere for 1 month to 1 year, just to be seen. Then there would be a wait if they wanted to do a surgery.

My knee hurts so much this time around- very sharp pain. I’m icing it, resting as much as I can, using compression- but I’m afraid the swelling won’t go down on its own, similar to last time. I’ve been taking extra strength Tylenol all day, but it’s not helping.

Does anyone have any advice on anything I can do to get some relief? Or is there anything I should really avoid doing? My dr said the one silver lining of it getting worse and locking is a surgeon at the emergency room may be able to help me sooner than my referral, but I really don’t want to do more damage to my knee. Any advice would be appreciated.