Every time you flex your knee, those damaged and swollen ligaments and muscle tissue move; when they are inflamed, every movement hurts. Once tissue is injured pain happens - sometimes a LOT of pain, so you try not to move it; when walking, this is why you limp and usually start strai...
When this happens, the knee is said to “lock up” which means that the patient is unable to extend the knee fully outward. Fluid accumulates as the result of an inflammatory process, and walking becomes difficult. Menisci lack blood supply except at their outer rim. Once torn, they heal ...
While recovering, keep leg straight most of the time, even when sitting. Sit less. (I didn’t sit less but did make a huge effort to keep my affected led fully extended, or at least not bent more that 20 degrees at any time. This necessitated sitting on the edge of my seat at wor...
The pain is mostly anterior (front part of the knee) and is most noticeable after I’ve been sitting for a while with the bent knee, then get up to walk. The pain improves greatly after walking for a minute or less. It also hurts a bit when I step up on something using my right ...
Pain affects our body’s ability to move. Our natural reaction is that if something hurts, we avoid doing it, but pain is not the same thing as damage. Think of a paper cut – it can really, really hurt, but there is very little actual damage. Pain can be our body’s way of che...
Because of the widened human pelvis, the femur makes a coronal plane angle of 6–10° with the tibia in the fully extended position. This is relatively larger in the female because of the wider pelvis. This configuration results in a tendency for the patella to move laterally when the qua...
Rotation at the knee joint is possible when the knee is: a. flexed b. extended c. abducted d. adducted A closed kinetic chain exercise for the knee is which of the following? A. Short arc quads. B. Isometric quad sets. C. Seated knee extension. D. Supine leg ...