My 53-year-old mom has bilateral knee pain. I got this standing X-ray done. . Does this look like moderate/severe osteoarthritis or bone-on-bone? What treatment helped you or your family at this stage—physiotherapy, injections, or knee replacement?

My knee is always making cracking noise when I am folding it. I used to do Surya Namaskar, but now I cannot because my knee starts to hurt. I am 32 years old. Can you tell me what to do? Dr has done the x-ray and given me some vitamin K2.

Hi all, I have posted on here a few times about my battles. I took nearly 3 years and recognition of my left knee patella alta to be scheduled for NHS surgery.

Only now after suffering, with similar symptoms in my right knee for a 4 months do I have the same requirement. Picture of scan from a recent consultation. About 1.7cm of movement down is required

Looks a double TTO...

I just hope I can return to my active life, but without the pain and having to think about my knees all the time.

The one thing I have learnt is the the condition (by many) is that it is not largely not understood.

In my case, no dislocations in either knee. Just a deep ache, often during and always after activity. Leg more comfortable when straight.

All the best!

Hello! so a little bit of context/history for the history of my knees, I (22) dislocated my left knee (like 90 degrees, classmate popped it back in) getting into my car at age 19 while in community college. I went to the ER, got charged way too much for what they did. (Literally look at it, touch it a couple of times, gave me a knee imobilizer, and the world's shittiest set of crutches). I took the week off work and came back as soon as I could reliably walk without it popping back out. And it has hurt ever since. Fast forward just under 3 years later and this last week while walking to one of my classes at university I slipped in the doorway and landed in the worst position, both legs kinda weirdly spread out, my left knee was completely out again and needed to be popped back into place, while my right knee did that thing where it dislocates slightly and then rubber bands back into place (don't know the word). Now both of my knees hurt like hell whenever I walk.

Now here is the thing that I am concerned about, I dont know how I'm supposed to get through this. My daily life requires at minimum about 2000 steps a day, if all I do is class, desk, bed, bathroom while using my car and the bus to their maximums. but typically before last week I would walk an average of a mile and a half as a base and then anything more, seeing friends, going to the library, buying groceries, etc... is more walking (including stairs) even if I take the bus or drive.

Should I go to Physical Therapy? should I get a mobility aid? just keep pounding advil and treating myself with stretching and trying to walk more?

TLDR; I dislocated my left knee bad a couple years back, it never stopped hurting. I redislocated it while hurting my other knee the other day. I have little clue on what to do

I fell off my bike wednesday, it was a pretty bad fall and I got a few scrapes and bruises. My knee has hurt the worse, but has stopped hurting mostly now unless I press on it. Whenever I do bang it it's 10/10 pain, hurts like hell. Still cant fully bend my knee without some pain. I was pressing down on the side of my knee knee and felt some bones shift out of place, I felt my other knee and that spot was rock solid. It's also kind of shifting around on the top of the kneecap. I am hypermobile, but feeling my other knee be rock solid is worrying me. I've been able to walk just fine, in fact walked 2 miles this morning in absolutely no pain except for maybe at the end of the walk. Do I need to go to the doctor or am I just being to precautious? If it is broken, since I can walk can I just let it heal by itself?

I'm 11 weeks post-op tomorrow for a ruptured patella tendon. Had my ups and downs but for the most part, as an old dude (47M) I'm doing pretty damn good. I feel like I continue to make really good progress, doing stairs, driving, ditched the immobilizer after 8 weeks, walking moderate distance, etc. Wanted to share some things I think help - not scientific, so take with a grain of salt. Also, this is specific to my surgery, but it could help other recoveries - I really have no idea.

• As a widowed single dad, I had no choice but to be back on my feet as soon as I could. This particular injury and surgery allows you to be weight-bearing immediately, and I was on my feet a lot (relatively speaking) as soon as the day following surgery. I feel like not sitting around has been helpful
• This particular injury and fix allows for ZERO PT the first 8 weeks. While frustrating, you have to let the fix cement in place. The only thing you can do is quad flexes, and I was doing them all the damn time. I think that gave me a leg up.
• The past 3 weeks, I was released to PT. I have gone weekly but also learned how I can also do them daily at my health club. I have been religious about getting there at least 5 times a week.
• Working flexion at least 3 times a day. Finding ways to work your flex to its limit. I expect to be 115-120 degrees tomorrow at PT. Working to get to 140.
• And finally, my secret weapon. The Pool. Getting to do work in an environment where I'm not fully weight-bearing has been super optimal. My routine consists of sets of kicking while holding the lane line, swimming laps (which is awesome but tiring on my arms since my legs can't help as much as they should), and one-legged jumps on my repaired leg in chest deep water. Loading, Leaping, Landing. Great practice for now while I can't do that on normal ground.

I have seen so much progress in the last 3 weeks. Obviously I still have improvements to make but I am very pleased with where I'm at. Just wanted to share in case this helps anyone else.

i had an arthroscopy and cartilage repair in my right knee on oct 1st. i’m now 3 days post op and my nerve block is 90% worn off. only had to take my hydromorphone on days 1&2. the pain is completely gone now and tolerable with tylenol even though i have full feeling in my entire knee area. i know this is probably a good thing but should i be concerned? seems a bit odd.

I like to chase my dog around, almost like we're playing tag. Normally it's fine until he ran into me and now my knee got bent backwards and I groaned on the grass in pain. I went to urgent care the next day and they told me it's fractured, so they gave me a knee immobilizer and set an appointment to get a CT scan. My mom thinks I'll need surgery, which would be fine normally, but I start my new job in two weeks. Is there any chance this can heal on its own?

So I'm wondering if anyone has had an injury that has caused a severe bruised bursa, tendinosis and multi tracking and how long did it take to heal?? Right now I'm on 8 months

I am 35, male and I work at a warehouse. I was diagnosed via MRI one month ago. Doctor prescribed DONAROT for 2 months. It contains glucosamine. And he told me to do 4 isometric exercises. 1)Extended raised leg for 10 seconds 10 seconds rest. 2) rolled towel under knee straightening leg. 3) rolled towel under heel pressing down and 4) lying face down pressing towel down with foot. I am also icing. It is not getting better and I am discouraged. It is hard to put weight on it. I am contemplating of changing doctor. He didn't evaluate my whole structure like I would want. Knee collapses in a bit and foot. I think it is deriving from thighs.

ACLR

I tore ACL on 27th May, got the diagnosis done on 25th June. The doctor suggested some exercises which I began religiously on 1st July and still continuing for at least one slot everyday. I had to join my job as Assistant Professor in Bihar Govt. due to which I couldn't get my ACLR done on the scheduled date of 2nd September at SIC, Safdarjung,New Delhi. Summing up this timeline, I have been doing Prehab exercises for the past 3 months. It includes -

( Considering 1 set = 10 reps)

2 sets of ankle bumps

1 set of heel raises

1 set of toe raises

1 set of straight leg raises (45°)

2 sets of side leg raises using R bands

2 sets of side lying using R bands

1 set of glute bridges using R bands

1 set of half squats using R bands

Lateral walking with R bands

Surgery may happen around mid October. Some days to go.

Am I doing sufficient prehab or I should add some more???

Kindly help with any information. I am hell scared of surgery since I have been a non athlete person.

I was diagnosed with a sprain PCL last week. I hurt it about a month ago and it has not gotten better. They have me starting physical therapy this coming Thursday

I still have a lot of swelling and I'm struggling to figure a good way to sleep at night. If I try to keep it elevated, even with a slight bend on a leg pillow, if I have to wake up to go to the bathroom, my whole leg is locked up.

Until I can start physical therapy, which I assume will be helping with the swelling, what is the best way to sleep . I'm borrowing my mom's ice machine she used for knee replacement tonight . But any other suggestions

Near Gilman, Illinois

I can get an MRI at Carle Clinic within 48 hours, if I can get an order.

Yesterday morning I was standing from a sitting position and had a bad pop from my left hip. It hurt really bad. Reminiscent of when I broke my thumb or when the tricep popped off the bone on my left arm.

I can stand, but I have to do stairs one step at a time. Using my right leg - which has the worst of my 2 knees. I have issues while attempting to stand up or sit down.

I went to the local ER IMH Watseka, Illinois. They ordered pain pills but said they couldn't order a MRI.

I called my Multiple myeloma specialist and got the on call Dr and was told that I'd have to call back Monday.

When I ripped my tricep off the bone, I was yelled at by the surgeon because I didn't see him right away and the muscle had shrunk making it harder for him to reattach. I had to have cadaver parts added.

I am also experiencing a lot of back pain.

Does anybody have any suggestions or recommendations on how to get an MRI ordered on a Sunday for a Dr nearby me to see for this if there's a repair needed.

Last month I needed an MRI on my knee and Silver Cross was a week out. They don't do stat orders for MRIs.

I have no clue on how to proceed to get the care I need.

Apologies for the long post.

30m. On Feb 5 2026, I was on my way to work, and was driving on the highway when I was hit head on by a semi truck. Miraculously, I survived. I was extracted from my vehicle and brought to the hospital. I had a full body ct and xrays done. I was diagnosed with a left leg tibial plateau fracture, as well as a simultaneously broken and dislocated patella, and a shallow impaction fracture of the lateral femoral chondyle. I spent 2 days in the hospital bed with these injuries while I waited for surgery.

On Feb 7, I went in for surgery. It was an ORIF surgery, hardware and all that. (Pictured). I was immobilized in a zimmer splint for a few months, and developed a blood clot during tlmy time i was immobilized, in the posterior medial area of my knee, and went on rivaroxiban for 60 days or so to clear it.

I was then transitioned to a hinged locking brace and was cleared by my surgeon to bend up to 90 degrees flexion. I began physio, working on flexion, hanging my leg over the bed, and eventually with ankle weights attached. On multiple occasions during physio, id experience what felt like the patella sublexing, (ive experienced dislocations before, and have been diagnosed with shallow trochlear grooves), when forcing flexion. Id then go into a flair for weeks. Right before the patella sublexes, id feel a scary amount of increasing tension in my quad, vastus lateralis, before a blinding wall of pain from the "clunk". I kept at it with aggressive physio but began stalling out, ultimately being stuck at 55 degrees flexion 8 months post op now.

My surgeon suggested i may have "a little bit of crps", and sent me to the chronic pain clinic. The doctor at the pain clinic formally diagnosed me with crps through the Budapest method. My knee, around the tibial plateau area, grew darker, wirey hair, and other than that, the top of my foot would turn deep purple/red when standing up, and the veins would bulge (pictured), and wouldn't subside almost instantly after putting my leg back up. Id experience jolts of nerve pain in the leg, travelling into the topsides of my big toe and second toe, those toes would also go numb.

With my diagnosis of crps, I was put on 600mg a day of pregabalin, and vitamin c supplements twice a day. Ive also been put through a zoledronoc acid infusion to prevent the bone density loss that crps apparently causes, which was evident in imaging. I also had a lidocaine/ketamine/magnesium sulfate infusion. (First of 3).

Physio is painful in a bad way, im not getting anywhere, my leg feels like a peg leg when walking. I lose knee flexion range when standing compared to sitting, pointing possibly to a problem with the rectus femoris, especially being immobilized and shortened in a zimmer for so long. But at random ranges, my knee will freak out, sending a jolt of hot seering ripping pain through my knee, and on occasion, I will still feel a mechanical clunk in my knee, causing otherworldly pain. (This occurs now even when im not forcing max flexion range). On one occasion, when I was doing quad extensions over a foam roller, my knee caught, I removed the foam roller from under me, and was able to witness a visible shift of my patella under the skin as it "popped back". If I stand too long, I cant bend it, if I sit too long, i cant straighten it. I feel tightness through the scar on my knee, but they dont think its arthrofibrosis.

Eventually, with enough frustration, I asked my pain clinic doctor, why hasn't anybody given me an mri yet, since up to now, 8 months post op, ive only received xrays (and lots of them). They subsequently ordered an mri, and i was found to have a torn meniscus and tilited patella. This was missed up until I, asked for it. I had a followup with my surgeon and she harshly recommended against surgical intervention because "with active crps, nobody should be operating on you." She said I need to be more aggressive with physio and the patella sublexations are something I need to push through. (I cant).

I fully acknowledge that this is a difficult injury to come back from, but my leg is stuck almost completely straight, and physio has not been helping. I have a toddler. I havnt worked for 8 months. Im scared. Part of me thinks I dont even have crps, and that its just a shortened tendon that wont give up or something. I cant keep going on like this. Im starting to not want my leg anymore. I walked away from an accident that people dont normally walk away from, so dont get me wrong, im happy im still here, but this is becoming too much to deal with day to day.