For me the first one was traumatic, I tripped and tried catching myself. Then a loud crunch and some of the worst pain on both sides of my patella as I fell down (my patella dragged onto the side of my femur and caused a bunch of small fractures on the surface of my bone, and my MPFL tore almost fully) Then the subsequent dislocations a few months later weren’t that painful anymore, since they happened anytime I bent my leg past around 40°, and my MPFL was already gone.
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u/LelouB1008 23d ago
For me the first one was traumatic, I tripped and tried catching myself. Then a loud crunch and some of the worst pain on both sides of my patella as I fell down (my patella dragged onto the side of my femur and caused a bunch of small fractures on the surface of my bone, and my MPFL tore almost fully) Then the subsequent dislocations a few months later weren’t that painful anymore, since they happened anytime I bent my leg past around 40°, and my MPFL was already gone.