annual knee injury!

[sheepiegirl]

Hi everyone. Thanks for the posts and pm's guys. have finally managed to persuade my gp to refer me onto a consultant after being at the sports injury clinic where they agree with the majority here that its a ruptured acl. Thanks for the advice guys hoping the appointment will come through soon.

[sheepiegirl]

Just thought I would give an update as know how annoying it is when your researching your knee problems and don't find out what treatment occurs!

So got my MRI results back and thankfully all ligaments are intake but have damage to my articular cartilage and menisci with a blunting of the femur causing problems with patellar tracking. So physio (to build up hams and quads even more) for another 3 months then a reassessment! Still suffering from knee giving out and problems with bending, fully extending it/locking out having kept up physio fully for last 6months (previous year bit off and on depending on pain/ROM) so not too sure that I can train the proprioceptive system much more but not seeing any other options other than to keep going with the physio. Would patellar taping help me get back into weight bearing exercise as currently can't manage this?

Also been finding lately that when teaching breaststroke after only 2 leg kicks then struggling to walk properly for the next few days. along with sometimes I will just be walking along then struggle to lock out knee/bend properly and end up 'dragging' my leg along as it feels like something is catching and stopping the full ROM.

Any advice or ideas would be much appreciated

[sheepiegirl]

Ok another update!

Seem to have made more progress this time visiting the consultant.

Physio has agreed that more physio will not help the problem and still having issues which if anything are getting worse! So surgery is the next option. There are 2 options open to me:a medial patellofemoral ligament recon or trochleoplasty. Going to try the Mpfl recon first and fingers crossed it will work although have been told I have a very shallow trochlear groove so may need a trochleoplasty.

Thanks to everyone who responded privately or publicly to me I hope that's me now on a more stable (pardon the pun!) recovery path now