I had a chondroplasty 8 wks ago due to patellofemoral chondromalacia still on 1 crutch lot pain is this normal
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Yes, the pain is normal. Cartilage is not very vascularized, so it takes a very long time to heal. That is why you are still feeling pain 8 weeks after the surgery. It will, however, get better in a few months or so. Keep going to rehab and take some pain meds if the pain ends up being unbearable. Hopefully surgery has cured your condition.
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I had a really bad case of gall bladder disease. I had about 40 gall stones, but my surgeon was great, and got rid of that bad boy.  After an attack, I would be very, very tired for the rest of the day, and sore particularly in my right shoulder blade for a day or so.  Not weeks. Best thing that ever happened for me physically was having my gall bladder removed.  I feel normal again!
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You REALLY need to go to another doctor (an orthopedic surgeon).  Meniscal tears are really common and there IS treatment.  Arthroscopic surgery (an outpatient procedure) is the most common treatment of the problem.  Not too long after the surgery, you'd be able to resume your normal activities.  There's a danger in not taking care of the problem, since meniscal tears can progress over time and become worse, causing further cartilage damage that would require more extensive treatment.  PLEASE see another doctor right away!
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Healing continues on even after the incision is healed.  If you are going to a qualified Physical Therapist he/she will be your best resource.  Make sure the PT you are seeing has experience in treating your kind of injury.  One of the first steps they should take is improving the mobility of the tendon, improving your flexibility and normalizing your walking pattern.  The most likely reason you continue to limp is the shortening of the muscle/tendon does not allow for normal walking mechanics.  This will improve over time.  Just remember you had surgery and was in a cast and walking boot for quite a long time.  Patience and perserverance as well as team work with your Physical Therapist will pay off!!!
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Sounds like you are subconsciously making up for the slight immobility in your leg. I can understand why it would cause foot pain, especially in the Achilles tendon, since your inertia as you move would be causing you to be hyperextending your foot. It's probably also connected to the knee pain. You may have developed a habitual limp. Anyone who's ever injured their knee or ankle has experienced the same sort of feeling. I can imagine that this feels completely abnormal though, or else you wouldn't have been describing it here. If you have BlueCross BlueShield, I know that specialists are covered without recommendation under "special office visits". You should have an orthopaedist do an xray to ensure that your cartilage isn't developing elasticity and that it's not flipping around a bone or growth. He should also watch your walk and see what habits you may have developed. Do you have a cane? I've learned that this can cause a weekness in certain muscles, causing others to over-compensate.
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I dislocated my knee about 3 months ago.  I was supposed to keep my knee stabilized- completely immobile for a long time, but I didn't know that. I did this 10 yrs ago to my other knee. It seems like this one is healing slower. I still have pain when I walk, and sometimes it still feels like my knee is going backwards when I walk.  I'll get shooting pains up and down the outside of my knee just out of the blue.  I just recently feel like my walk is almost back to normal.  I went to the doctor for a recheck about 3 weeks ago, and asked her the same question you just did.  She told me everyone is different, and the knees always take a very, very long time to heal. I now am taking glucosimine for my joints.  Its just something you can pick up at a vitamin store.  It actually feels as if it may be working, or maybe its just coincidence.
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If it was a total replacement, the only thing I can think of that would cause pain now is a loosening of the artificial joint.  If that's the case, you need to see your ortho surgeon.  Once it gets loose, it will only get worse.
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Your surgeon will probably recommend a surgical shoe for at least several weeks to protect the surgical site. Some people find that pain during recovery is not as bad as the hammertoe! \n\nYou must ask for pain medications if you need them, as every person's perception of pain is different, and your surgeon cannot know how much pain you're in unless you tell hir.\n\nI have read of some people who experienced no significant pain after the first day or two, and others who complained of more. Again, though, work with your surgeon, following hir instructions carefully, and ask for adequate pain relief as necessary.\n\nAverage recovery time is 4-6 weeks, but improvement will be seen each day.\n\nGood luck!
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Hi\nMichael Y gives you two possible causes of the pain.\n\nThe one thing that no one addressed is your hyperextension of your joints. I have the same problem. Depending on how many other of your joints are hypermobile you may have something called Ehler-Danlos syndrome. This isn't bad, it just means that you need to protect all your joints.  The experts recommend you wear sports braces on knees to stop the hyperextension. This eases the pain over time.\n\nHope you feel better. Pluse you don't 'indicate if you are male or female, but sometimes the pain is due to ''growing'' as the bones extend.\n\nFinally I would see a physician because there is a very RARE syndrome where the head of the fibula becomes de-vascularized and can cause knee pain and swelling.  This requires surgery to fix. Requires an x ray.\n\nGood luck
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not to bad the people above are right it hurts worse to not have it done. Besides the worse part of the whole operation is the IV that they put in...I do suggest the surgery and I do suggest a lot of ice and a nice bed with a lot of pillows...  If the doctor has to stitch or shave the meniscus  is whether or not you get to walk 3 days afterwards or not...And another thing i suggest highly is moving your knee the day afterwards because if you don't move it around it will become very weak and then therapy will have to happen.Hope this helps!
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I had one removed from my left and right hands.  One at a time.  The haling time is realistically about a couple months...a few weeks of pain and stitches...then there is a pain when lifting too much weight, or bumping the hand in that spot.  It hurts; just bask for some good pain meds.  Make sure you keep it elevated...REMEMBER...IMPORTANT; while you are sleeping; hanging around, because if you don't it will get even more swollen than it will be already, from the surgery, itself.  Ask the surgeon if you can see it.  It looks like a spider; be glad it's gone.  Good luck to you.  You will be fine.  get it out before it gets any bigger; one of mine was, and it still hurts; it's been 3 months.  It is better every day.  It is a standard procedure; very quick...20 minutes for the surgery, itself.  Don't fret.  relax.
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Congratulations on the win!\n\nPity about your knee. I think you should do two things:\n\n1 If this is persistent, get some advice from a good sports physio or a specialist doctor. It doesn't sound within the normal range of post-ride aches and pains.\n\n2 Change your pedals for a set with more float - both frogs and eggbeaters are good in this respect. Maybe even consider returning to platforms. Try a few vigorous training rides on platforms and see if this cures the problem. \n\nIf you have the typical woman's wide pelvis your knee joints will be inwardly rotated to a greater degree than some (straight up and down) women and most men. You require the maximum floatability because the anatomical relationship in the length from hip joint to knee joint causes a lot more rotational movement of the long female femur. \n\nDon't risk your knees, you'll spend more than half your life regretting it. I speak from experience. I'm a lifelong mad-keen cyclist. Now I'm in my mid-50's a ride every day with clicky knees and a dull, precisely bounded pain somewhere in the medial side of my right knee joint. Getting up stairs is painful for me and sometimes so acute I think my right knee is going to give way. Its a heavy price to pay when I still have maybe 35 years cycling left in me.
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I injured my knee in a White Zombie concert years ago when the crowd rushed the stage and it took 3 security guys to get me out.As they were lifting me over the barricade, the crowd rushed the stage again and 1 of them slipped and dropped me, and all my weight came down on my knee that hit the metal barricade.Yeah, it hurt like hell, and I was on crutches for a bit.But ever since, my knee starts bothering me when it gets rainy.I asked my doc about it and he said it's because the calcification of healed fracture expands during humidity.Or something along the lines of that like that.
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This could be an ileopsoas muscle strain or, as you suspect, a bursitis.  And the pain can indeed come and go.  It is possible for it to become a chronic condition when not rested /treated appropriately.\n\nBut! laying on a mattress, however 'terrible', is not likely to cause this injury.  (Though it may aggravate it, so wrecking your quality of sleep and rest....).\n\nIt takes time for a bursitis to form - and it is not at all unusual for \none to develop weeks, even months,after the original injury.\n(Which is why it sometimes seems to come 'out of the blue')\n It is a common sports injury, but may also be connected to excessive weight-bearing. or other forms of trauma.  (I see from a previous answer that you are just 27 yrs old...? sports injury)...\n\nPrimary care doctors are not good at diagnosing these kinds of problems - indeed they don't really want to, since the diagnostic tests involved are expensive (CT and MRI imaging) - and, when all is said and done, none of their patients ever die of pain!!\n\nMoreover,while patients are waiting for those tests, the problem frequently resolves itself.  \n\nTreatment is image-guided deep injection of steroids,but the success rate for this is only 50-60%.  (Surgery for very extreme cases).\n\nAn alternative diagnosis might actually be spinal problems - a herniated disk in particular - which can cause 'referred' pain to the hip and other structures.  However I would be willing to bet money that you have a bursitis - primarily because you identify the pelvic bone as a major pain site. (The ileopsoas muscle attaches to the pelvis).\n\nIn this condition, you are likely to feel OK when mobilising - but experience pain when you sit/ lay in a 'fixed' position.  You may also experience pain on internal rotation of the leg on the affected side.\n\nYou need 'Brufen' (Ibruprofen) for pain relief and as an anti-inflammatory.  And you need to rest for a bit with only gentle exercise.  \n\nIf you have a continued experience of pain - over several months - you will need to seek a definitive MRI scan of the pelvis - primarily to exclude spinal radiculopathy (nerve root involvement) and lumbar disk problems. But lets hope you won't need one and that it is a minor problem.  Its a 'wait and see', really.\n\nI really hope this helps you. Good luck.
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I've had the right one done, arthritis, and have to have the left done as well.  It will take time to rehab and you will need assistance for a while.  That pain isn't as much as I thought it would be but it still hurts.  It will be about 6-8 months before you are 'back to normal'.  But, sadly, you will have to have them done again.
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I have very bad knees, I've already had surgery on one of them for degenerating cartilage. I'm only 20. Before the surgery, I tried physical therapy. In there I found some good stretches, but the most important thing was the discovery that I can use the stationary bike with minimal or no pain. If you decide to do this, keep it at a lower resistance. If it hurts, reduce the resistance. I usually bike on level 2 or so, although bikes differ.
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Managing patellofemoral pain syndrome is a challenge, in part because of lack of consensus regarding its cause and treatment. Contributing factors include overuse and overload of the patellofemoral joint, biomechanical problems and muscular dysfunction. The initial treatment plan should include quadriceps strengthening and temporary activity modification. Additional exercises may be incorporated as dictated by the findings of the physical examination. Footwear should be closely evaluated for quality and fit, and the use of arch supports should be consideredBecause bending the knee increases the pressure between the patella and its various points of contact with the femur, patellofemoral pain syndrome is often classified as an overuse injury.4-8 However, a more appropriate term may be "overload," because the syndrome can also affect inactive patients. Repeated weight-bearing impact may be a contributing factor, particularly in runners.3 Steps, hills and uneven surfaces tend to exacerbate patellofemoral pain. Once the syndrome has developed, even prolonged sitting can be painful ("movie-goer's sign") because of the extra pressure between the patella and the femur during knee flexion.\nDedicated patients can often manage physical therapy on their own, with 20 minutes per day being a reasonable expectation. Guidance from a physical therapist can be helpful, but patients need to adhere to the therapist's recommended home program and should not expect overnight success. Patients may not experience improvement of symptoms for six weeks or much longer, and the syndrome may recurIce is the safest anti-inflammatory "medication," but its successful use requires discipline. Applying ice for 10 to 20 minutes after activity is reasonable. A common complaint is the inconvenience of holding an ice bag on the knee, but a simple elastic wrap solves this problem. A frozen gel pack, crushed ice in a plastic bag or a bag of frozen vegetables also work well.\n\nPatients with patellofemoral pain syndrome have not been conclusively shown to benefit from anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Although the same statement can be made about many treatments for patellofemoral pain, the drawback of NSAIDs is that their potential side effects may be more significant than any adverse effects of ice application or rehabilitative exercises. However, considering the convenience of NSAID therapy, a judicious trial may be worthwhile.\n\nSurgery for patellofemoral pain syndrome is considered a last resort. True chondromalacia (fraying of the retropatellar cartilage) may be amenable to an arthroscopic surgical procedure to smooth out the undersurface of the patella.35 Unfortunately, the chondromalacia may return.\nBefore the decision is made to perform a lateral release, other options and treatments should be considered. For example, the physician should consider whether the lateral tracking could simply be due to a tight iliotibial band or weak quadriceps muscles. Taping the knee to enhance medial glide should be tried. Having the patient wear a quality running shoe or arch support is another measure to try before surgery is contemplated. Although the lateral release is effective in a select group of patients, it is often considered an overused procedure, even among some orthopedic surgeonsAn initial conservative approach to patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome should include the following measures: (1) relative rest with consideration of a temporary change to nonimpact aerobic activity; (2) quadriceps strengthening; (3) evaluation of footwear; and (4) icing, especially after activity.\n\nDefinitive treatment should be individualized. The addition of hip strengthening and stretching or stretching of the iliotibial band, hamstrings and calves should be based on a physical examination. Consideration should also be given to use of over-the-counter or custom orthotics. Patient education is essential, and patients need to be given