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Have you injured your meniscus?
Read on for some helpful information regarding your knee pain and ways to help support your knee in the future.
The femur (thigh bone) and shin bone (tibia) are protected from impact by a tough cartilage covering called “menisci”. Two menisci are located in your knee joint complex. One protects the lateral aspect of the knee and one the inner portion (medial aspect). If you were somehow able to be born without meniscus, your weight would lie squarely on the bones of your thigh and tibia, causing fractures and a lot of pain.
Even a miniscule tear in the meniscus can cause pain, which is why the overall health of your knee relies heavily on functionality of the meniscus. A meniscus tear often happens as a result of a sporting injury. If the knee joint is bent and twisted, this can lead to a meniscus tear. Older people who have brittle cartilage can also suffer from a meniscus tear.
Symptoms include:
Knee pain
Swelling
Movement of the knee joint is limited
Popping and/or clicking noises made within the knee
Tenderness if pressed on
Diagnosis
Doctors will typically have a look at your history, and use an X-ray or MRI to assess whether or not you are suffering from a meniscus tear. Once your doctor can see the damage, a treatment plan will be made for your recovery. Usually, surgery is not required, unless the damage is severe.
Treatment
Icing the injured area can help reduce the swelling and relieve pain. By reducing the swelling, it also allows the body to heal faster. Stay away from activities that cause you pain.
Immobilize the knee and allow it to heal naturally. Knee braces can help provide support for patients that suffer from meniscal tears. Knee braces can help reduce pain and provide added support to the knee area. If you’re an active person, using a knee brace when you are healthy may help to prevent a meniscus tear. They are a very useful adjunct to your health care.
Surgery is the last resort. There are two types of surgical procedures that are typically used to correct a meniscus tear:
A meniscus repair is used to repair the damaged meniscus, but is used less often than the meniscectomy, which is a procedure that removes the damaged part of the meniscus.
If you suffer a meniscus tear, you are more likely to have further complications, such as arthritis in the future. Prevention is the best method. It is recommended that you help prevent meniscus injuries, or furthering your current injury, by making good lifestyle choices. For instance, making sure you stay in shape so that your knee does not have to carry extra weight, and wearing a knee brace while engaging in sporting or daily activities is just two of the ways that people can help prevent a meniscus tear.
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I am sure most of you can identify with that and more, we have tried everything with little or no results. When we get together with friends to catch up, the topic turns to complaints of our health issues! We can’t help it because it hurts, we hurt, and we think about it all the time. Plus, we don’t want to be outdone by our friends pains, so we elaborate!
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Pain in your knee?
Sometimes when you have knee pain and you’ve been to see specialists and nothing seems to be the answer, you do wonder whether you’ll end up needing divine intervention. With biomechanics becoming more widely understood, we now know that by sorting out your biomechanics, we can often reduce the need to get down on your knees and pray. The affects our biomechanics have on our body and the vicious circle of injury and pain it can cause is one of the main reasons knee pain can be recurrent.
A rotated pelvis for example can go unnoticed for many years until the compensations start to cause problems. This abnormal pelvic position often causes one leg to appear longer or shorter and the body must compensate for this. Typically one way it compensates is to overly flatten (pronate) the foot of the longer leg to shorten it, another way is to bend the knee more.
Unfortunately both of these options will increase the load on the knee. If the foot over pronates, it will cause the leg to internally rotate excessively. This rotation force will often be absorbed at the knee, which can result in pain. If the knee bends too much during mid-stance phase, this will de-stabilise the knee and it will naturally want to rotate inwards. If this is combined with an already over pronating foot, the problem is exaggerated. Both of these situations are likely to cause knee pain. Certainly if knee pain already exists this type of load will prevent it from settling down, even if it isn’t the main cause of the problem.
Managing these biomechanical issues is critical if your knee pain is to be managed and allow you to return to long term running. Bearing in mind that 60% of the biomechanical problems with your feet are due to compensations for faulty hip or pelvic biomechanics, it is important that before we start thinking about orthotics, we need to check out the hips and pelvis.
The first thing to do is to manage the cause. In other words we need to re-orientate the pelvis to reduce the leg length discrepancy. To do this we have to reduce the muscle spasm in the outside of the hip (in a muscle called piriformis) to allow the joint to re-orientate itself. The best way to do this is by performing ‘anti-spasm’ exercises for the muscle. Stretching or flexibility work just won’t cut it. You need to return the muscle to normal function, not just stretch it. Once the spasm is eradicated as much as possible, then the leg length typically returns to normal length. Now you have a level playing field. If the symptoms have not subsided and if you still over pronate, now you can safely have orthotics prescribed, as any remaining foot biomechanical problem will be inherent to the foot. Rehab on your knee will now have a better chance of working for you, if it’s still necessary.
To fully complete your rehab talk to your local physio about exercises to stabilise your knee and pelvis. In other words exercises that allow your muscles to control your pelvis and knee without them needing to go into spasm. Part of this process is achieved by so-called ‘core stability exercises’, but also you need to speak to your physio about plyometric exercises for pelvic and knee muscles that you can do in the gym.
As a result of one of the largest studies in biomechanics by Galileo Active we can all benefit from assessing our biomechanics, in the comfort of our home. They have developed a CD ROM software program that helps you asses your biomechanics with the software prescribing the exercises needed to remove these biomechanical problems and in turn help manage and prevent the types of knee injuries we’re talking about in this article.
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Managing Director of HumanLab Sports, heading a team of bio mechanists, kinesiologists, physiotherapists, strength and cardio-vascular specialists.
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