Knee Injury Help - Lateral Knee Pain from a Medial Meniscus tear

okeeffc2

Hi everyone

I recently got an MRI which revealed a small peripheral tear ion the posterior horn of my medial meniscus. I am confused because my pain is lateral, around the fibula

Has anyone ever experienced this before??

John G

I had a tear a few years ago. My knee was never sore, one of my quads used to go into spasm after running. The body is a funny thing. I was out from running for 2 years before it was eventually diagnosed.

My advice is to get proper medical advice. In my case I was referred to the Santry Clinic. A fairly straight forward procedure (20 mins) under general anesthetic, a few weeks rehab and I was back running.

Everyone's different. I would see a specialist. it is a minor tear (like mine) it should be fairly straight forward.

Tigerandahalf

You might need key hole surgery to clean it out.

It is the kind of thing that you could get away with if doing an activity only once a week but more than that and you will get a lot of swelling and pain.

Get it sorted. A couple of weeks and it will gradually sort itself.

Soulsun

Denis Collins in Santry Sports clinic is the man for this job.

Peterx

I had a similar tear. I didn't want surgery so spend a year on exercises and limited running before getting the key hole surgery.
As the other poster said every body is different but if the knee continues to swell after runs and you can't get a decent block of work in then definitely consider the key hole surgery.
In my case the surgeon said the rest of the knee was very clean and generally well and the particular location of the tear was going to continue causing irritation and swelling so I am very happy with the result. 4 years on, the knee aches when I up the mileage but doesn't swell any more.

The reason I didn't want surgery was the stories of people getting surgery and it not fixing the problem with issues flaring up post operation.

TLDR:
Try hard to fix with exercises and physio, if not fixing it get key hole, if key hole is recommended by someone good.
Best of luck.

68 lost souls

I had surgery after a few months of prehab and unfortunately picked up an infection during surgery, a few weeks after the first op had a second one and a week in Santry on IV antibiotics. 6 weeks recovery turned into 9 months+ but since then have gone on to do Dublin City Marathon and dozens of triathlons including my first half last year in TriLImits.

Before the surgery it was awful, my knee would lock in place i bent it too far and had to "pop" it back, if I squatted too low I would get stuck there. Now its generally fine unless I don't exercise for a while and let the muscles fade or if I push it too hard too often.

One thing for sure is to stick with all the physio exercises. In my case there was then a massive imbalance between the two legs which in itself then led to other small niggles that needed sorting out.