My Knee Dislocation. =[

by Melanie
(Wisconsin)

Hi, its going to be 2 weeks on saturday since i dislocated my knee cap really bad during a volleyball game. I came down on my teamates foot and it popped out. It hurt so bad right away and i couldnt bend it at all. It swelled up and i continued to not be able to bend it for about 4 days..then it started to be able to bend gradually.

I had an xray and mri and my doctor just told me that when i dislocated it some tendons on the inside of my knee were torn when it went the opposite direction. And thats why i have pain on the inside of my knee so much.

As of right now i still have some pain and it still swells up quite a bit after the days over. There is also a kind of like popping feeling alot of times when i bend my knee and when i put my hand on my knee it feels like something is moving back and forth on the outside of my knee when it pops. What could be causing that?

And the last thing that bothers me is when my leg is flat and i pull my knee cap upward with my muscle it comes up but as its moving back down into its correct spot it stops for a second and then clicks back down. I have dislocated my knee before and none of these things have happened. Maybe its just a result of it dislocated worse..i don't know.

Basketball is suppose to start for me also in about a week and a half. I don't know if i should push it and try to recover for it.. or take my time healing it so that it doesn't get hurt right away again? Sorry this is so long..i have a lot of questions!

Thanks.

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Oct 22, 2008
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popping
by: Bart - SII

The popping you are feeling is probably from the scaring and healing that is going on inside of your knee. The tissues that were damaged are all trying to heal, and sometimes they will produce scar tissue that causes the knee to pop when you bend and extend.

You also have some looseness in your patella because you have dislocated it a couple of times - that means that the tissues that were torn can't do their job as well, so when you squeeze your quad muscle and then relax, the patella kinda moves side to side when it goes back down - that may cause it to click back into place.

You really need to give this some time - at least 3-4 more weeks - your body can only heal so fast, and if you go back too soon, you will likely dislocate again coming down from a rebound or a jump stop.

If you can do some rehabilitation with an athletic trainer or a physical therapist, that would be a great way to get better - they can help you strengthen the muscles in your hips and your legs to help stabilize your knee. Rehab after a dislocation is very very important to be able to get back to sports.

Take it easy and work on getting stronger - your knee will be better in the long run.

Bart

Mar 25, 2009
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i had this too
by: Anonymous

i dislocated my knee 3 times. so im no stranger to this. it could be that you have pulled off a piece of cartilage like me and its floating around in ur knee. i had to get surgery to get that piece out and do a lateral release. you might need that too. hope this helps

May 11, 2009
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knee just went
by: Anonymous

i was just standing thire next i fell down. befour you say aney thing i was just standing not moving or aney thing just went it dislocated i could see my kne move out of place in frount of my eye it felt lik some one was trying two pull slow doctor dont know why it just went can you give me some help
but befour this my knee did fell cold four some time but ioam very fit ??

May 26, 2009
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Same problems... heres some advice
by: Anonymous

I had the same kind of dislocation (lateral).... I was playing soccer and came down on my knee wrong. My knee wouldn't go back into place by itself(if it does its called a sublex... (this happens alot after you dislocate your knee because the tendons are stretched out))The popping sound and feeling is from a torn part of your meniscus (the softer lining of the back of your knee cap.) This DOES NOT go away with time. One the meniscus is torn it does not heal itself. I went almost 4 years without fixing it thinking that if I just let it heal a little then I could go back to sports. My knee continually got worse and worse and eventually I had to fix it.
SO>>> I went to the Dr. and had a lateral release done with tendon repair. I have not had a problem with it since. The surgery was quick and only took three days until I was walking again. The swelling went down to normal and have never been happier. Hope this helps.