lateral knee pain

[physioceccus]

Perhaps your kid works too strong.
You may try with a boiled cabbage leaf applied on his knee to reduce the pain and advise to work less.
Please, pardon my English: I'm a 58 years old italian PT.

Cecco

[JackieS]

Perhaps your kid works too strong.
You may try with a boiled cabbage leaf applied on his knee to reduce the pain and advise to work less.
Please, pardon my English: I'm a 58 years old italian PT.

Cecco

just out of interest, but how is a boiled cabbage going to help in this instance?

[alophysio]

Hi,

I too thought the same thing - maybe the smell will prevent him from taking the field and he will get good rest without too much trouble from his coaches!

But seriously, perhaps it is like how cabbage leaves help breastfeeding women with mastitis - anti-inflamm?

[oscar]

it's meant to be good for horses with swellings on thier legs....no idea why though!

[rahid]

Hi Laura ,
I strongly believe that what you think is right. The posterior horn of the lateral meniscus should have been effected. Do you know the mechanism of injury, i mean, if he remembers an instance in the field that he got an injury. How long is the pain now, flare-up causes, and what relieves the pain. Check at the level of the joint line between the femur and tibia for tenderness. MRI is highly indicated.
RICE protocol that you have initiated is well with the same as Konradslavinskis says; strengthening program (all exercises to be performed within the pain limits)


hi hi hi boiled cabbage, why not potatoes (sarcastic) a slice of raw potato applied to a black eye will reduce swelling. An old-fashioned treatment for chilblains is a poultice of mashed potatoes and turnips mixed with a little turpentine. The raw juice, or the water used to boil potatoes, can help to relieve painful joints when applied as a compress.

Im not an Italilan physio and doesn't speak Italain too.

Cheers
Rahid