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PREPATELLAR / KNEE BURSITIS / JUMPER’S KNEE

  • • Pain with activity under or around front of kneecap.
  • • Rapid swelling on front of kneecap.
  • • Tender and warm to the touch .
  • • Pain when walking up or down stairs, kneeling, squatting, and sitting with a bent knee for an extended time period.
Treatment : Rest, ice, and physical therapy are sufficient. Surgery (Arthroscopic Debridement) is required in difficult cases.

MENISCAL TEAR /TORNED KNEE CARTILAGE

  • • Pain in the knee associated with clicking or crepitus.
  • • Swelling in knee.
  • • Catching or locking of knee.
  • • Pain on squatting.
Treatment : Physical therapy and rest is needed in few cases. But the treatment of choice is Surgery (Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy/Meniscal repair) followed by rehab exercises.

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT TEARS

  • • Pain with swelling within 24 hours.
  • • Instability and frequent giving way.
  • • Crepitus and occasional locking of knee.
  • • Loss of full range of motion and inability to run and use stairs.
  • • Discomfort while walking.
Treatment : Treatment of choice is Surgery (Arthroscopic ACL Reconstruction) followed by rehab exercises.

PATELLA / KNEECAP DISLOCATION / INSTAILITY

  • • Knee is bent and can’t straighten.
  • • Pain, deformity and Swelling.
  • • Recurrent instability or feeling of giving way and falls.
Treatment : Initially, rest, ice and splinting will be sufficient. But the treatment of choice is Surgery (Arthroscopic MPFL Reconstruction) followed by rehab exercises.

POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT TEARS

  • • May hear a “popping” noise and feel knee give out.
  • • Pain with swelling within 24 hours.
  • • Instability while walking.
Treatment : Treatment of choice is Surgery (Arthroscopic PCL Reconstruction) followed by rehab exercises.

CARTILAGE INJURIES

  • • Pain on activity especially on certain activities.
  • • Recurrent locking of knee.
  • • Recurrent swelling.
Treatment : Rest and bracing is needed but the treatment of choice is Surgery (Arthroscopic Microfracture/OATS/ACI) followed by rehab exercises.
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