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blobert1
blobert1 Posts: 43 Member
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I was in a bike wreck recently and my knee came out clicking. There is some pain but not a lot. It clicks or snaps almost every time I bend it past 90 degrees and feels like stuff is catching in there. The pain is on the inside front of my knee to the right of my left kneecap. Does anyone have experience with this? Should I wait it our or go to the doctor right away?

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  • NuggetLovesEdie
    NuggetLovesEdie Posts: 477 Member
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    Can you bear weight on it?

    If not, I'd think that might warrant an urgent care visit to rule out anything super serious.

    But I'm not a medical provider... just a random person on the internet.

    Good luck!
  • blobert1
    blobert1 Posts: 43 Member
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    It holds me up just fine. Gets sore after a while.
  • melly7171
    melly7171 Posts: 54 Member
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    With my experience with my knee's i would go to the doctor to rule out any damage. I get that clicking to and pain in the same spot but mine is from arthritis but i have had 2 miniscus tears and 2 surgery's in the last 3 years
  • ShallaLovee
    ShallaLovee Posts: 341 Member
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    My knee makes all types of noises and aches and pains but that's because I tore a legiment in my knee last year and it never fully recovered. I think you should just to be sure go check it out and see what's going on. Better safe then sorry. Good luck :)
  • hiddensvelte
    hiddensvelte Posts: 53 Member
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    I was in a bike wreck recently and my knee came out clicking. There is some pain but not a lot. It clicks or snaps almost every time I bend it past 90 degrees and feels like stuff is catching in there. The pain is on the inside front of my knee to the right of my left kneecap. Does anyone have experience with this? Should I wait it our or go to the doctor right away?

    [I am NOT a doctor, but i did stay at a Holiday Inn, once :wink: ]
    I would schedule an appointment to your doc. Having had a knee "lock" on me a few months ago and the same feeling that stuff is catching there, it might be a torn meniscus. I have one in each knee.

    Here is a little light reading:
    http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00358
  • katiekrusher
    katiekrusher Posts: 143
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    Same thing happens with me, I have no idea what it is. It doesn't really bother me much.
  • Elleinnz
    Elleinnz Posts: 1,661 Member
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    As someone that just had a knee replacement done I have obviously learnt a few things about knees, doctors and physiotherapists over the past year....

    Personally I would go and see a good sports physiotherapist rather than a doctor (GP) - PT's specialise in this type of stuff, and if they think you need to see a GP (or an Orthopedic Surgeon) they will refer you.

    Dont wait to long to get someone to look at it - if it does not go away within a week / 10 days I would definitely go and see a PT before you do more damage (speaking from painful experience!!)
  • dvisser1
    dvisser1 Posts: 788 Member
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    Knees don't heal themselves very well. I've done about everything I can to mine without having to have surgery. Clicks are pops are part of my every day. If during the wreck you landed hard on that knee, you could have chipped some cartilage in the patellar track due driving the kneecap into with the impact. If not that, sudden jarring / twisting can damage some of the ligaments or the meniscus cartilage inside the joint. I highly recommend going to a sports medicine or orthopedic doctor for an evaluation. Good chance it's nothing serious, but you want a doctor familiar with joints and sports injuries to make that call.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,047 Member
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    Yeah, I was going to say Meniscus tear, too. I had that same thing. I walked just fine on mine for 25 years before it became painful. Then had surgery, ten days recovery and it's been fine for the last 15 years.
  • 12skipafew99100
    12skipafew99100 Posts: 1,669 Member
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    I was in a bike wreck recently and my knee came out clicking. There is some pain but not a lot. It clicks or snaps almost every time I bend it past 90 degrees and feels like stuff is catching in there. The pain is on the inside front of my knee to the right of my left kneecap. Does anyone have experience with this? Should I wait it our or go to the doctor right away?

    Go to the doc. Sounds like a torn meniscus. They might be able to repair it.
    An x-ray cannot show soft tissue damage so they might order an MRI to make the diagnosis. I hope you have good insurance.
    If it is a meniscus tear it could get folded over and caught in the knee making it locked so you can't straighten out your leg. Thats what happened to me. I had surgery to remove it.

    Best wishes.
  • jcraig1980
    jcraig1980 Posts: 34
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    My knees click and grind too - one started doing it during my first pregnancy (8 years ago) and my other just started last year. It is one of my many health problems that I relate to my weight issue. My doctor said it is part of aging. I wasn't happy with that answer since I am only 32. I can't ride a bike pulling my boys anymore because of the pain from it. I started going to physical therapy which is helping a bit, and I have only been doing it for a couple of months. My therapist believes that shoes are part of my problem along with some muscle weakness in my upper legs, and possibly an old injury. I did have to press my doctor for an official diagnosis, an x-ray and an order to go to PT. I was dx with Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome, which goes by a couple of different names from what I understand.
  • davidmcgowan1987
    davidmcgowan1987 Posts: 111
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    it sounds like a tracking problem..
    if your knee was overextended during the accident its possible that you suffered a subluxation of the patella. this is when it moves out of the patello-femoral grove (the grove your kneecap slides up and down in) and its basically an almost dislocation

    this can stretch your VMO muscle and takes some time to recover from.

    best to see a physiotherapist who can look at your joint to determine if its a tracking problem or something else.

    light exercise and rest is good.

    heat is good, cold is bad (all joint injuries, ice for 48 hours, then heat until recovered)
  • 2hobbit1
    2hobbit1 Posts: 820 Member
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    Time to check in with your orthopod - could be a torn meniscus or a patella tendon tear/strain.
  • gussy92
    gussy92 Posts: 3 Member
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    ice it 20min on 20min off 1/2hour in between do this 3 times ive got a bad knee from when i was in the army that should reduces the swelling then dry it offf with a towel then get a hot water bottle and place place that on your kneeif you can lay on the couch and put2 pillows under your knee and rar a towle around the hot water bottle and your knee and just rest make an app 4 your DR next week hope all goes well bestofluck big GEE

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