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What Is The Remedy For A Bad And A Loud Knee Crack With A ACL Tear And A Cyst In The Back Of My Knee?
hello my name is Christine And on a daily basis both of my knees crack really bad and loud. Weather I m standing,, sitting down , laying down, or walking. It s so loud it sounds like there s a tree branch breakin . At times it feels like they re building up with some kind of pressure and when the knee pops it releases it in either feels really good or is it hurts really really bad and I ll say a 90 percent of the time it hurts. II had an MRI done on my right knee and I have a torn ACL tear in the back it s an almost complete tear I have a cyst in the back of the knee and water on the knee and 4 of my toes on my R Foot go numb on me All the time. I also had an MRI done my left knee because I fell down 4 steps and landed on both my needs and both my elbows. that impression said that there was a small interstitial liner split of the distal quadriceps tendon this is located medial to the midline. no lateral tendon at north bs identified.eeverytime when I get in the shower I don t use hot water at all both of my knees seem to get really red and its like to get really tight and its way to try to bend them is like its real tough in hard and I just don t understand and I can t seem to find anybody that will help me at all especially with torn ACL tear in the back and sit in the back of my right knee to cut off circulation like my foot do you think that somebody could help me an answer my question for me please I d really really appreciate it because this has been going on for years now and I get sent to 1 orthopedic to another to another
Wed, 29 Jan 2014
Hi
You need not to worry.
First of all poping and crackling soumd may be due to arthritis or meniscus injury too.
But in your case as you have been diagnosed with acl tear it has to be repaired by a tendon graft and for that you have to consult an knee arthroscopist.
While repairing your acl he too can see the status of your meniscus and if need meniscectomy can be done.
Second swelling in back of knee with fluid is generally popliteal cyst it may compress the nerve running behind it causing numbness in foot. It need to be excised but with help of plastic and vascular surgeon because nerves and arteries run near it.
For quadricepa tear need to get to what extent it is tear if partial can treat conservately and if complete need to get itrepaired. This too can be done by plastic or ortho surgeon.
Get well soon.
Thank you.
You need not to worry.
First of all poping and crackling soumd may be due to arthritis or meniscus injury too.
But in your case as you have been diagnosed with acl tear it has to be repaired by a tendon graft and for that you have to consult an knee arthroscopist.
While repairing your acl he too can see the status of your meniscus and if need meniscectomy can be done.
Second swelling in back of knee with fluid is generally popliteal cyst it may compress the nerve running behind it causing numbness in foot. It need to be excised but with help of plastic and vascular surgeon because nerves and arteries run near it.
For quadricepa tear need to get to what extent it is tear if partial can treat conservately and if complete need to get itrepaired. This too can be done by plastic or ortho surgeon.
Get well soon.
Thank you.
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