Anybody ever have a meniscectomy? I had 70% of my medial meniscus removed. Am I fucked?
>>76944810Yeah, had mine done about 20 years ago. Do your PT, and make sure the PT you go to works with athletes/military. Most PTs work with old people, and consider being able to walk up a flight of stairs an A+ outcome. You need to make sure your PT knows you intend to play sports/martial arts/run/whatever so they can get ypu on a real recovery plan rather than the "get grandpa to where he can hobble around his yard for the next 5-10 years until he croaks" plan. I learned this the hard way, and now have severe hip and lower back damage caused by getting the wrong kind of physical therapy.
>>76944810>meniscectomyNot me despite a few knee injuries. Sounds like some kinda regenerative medicine skill issues. I think you can still do a fair amount of physical activity but clankers say the risk of arthritis goes up the closer u get to total meniscectomy so they usually do it for old people.
>>76944962This right here is why I can’t stand most orthopedists and PTs. They’re so ready to write off as “non-athletic” anyone who isn’t playing pro/collegiate sports and just hobble you for life because they don’t think it matters. I had a labral tear and had to go through two orthos before I found a practice that actually wanted to get me back to lifting. The rest were fine with crippling my arm so I couldn’t bench anymore.
>>76944810What are symptoms of needing this proceed, just occasional sorness after overuse?
>>76944990I've always gotten inner knee pain. Like on and off for years. But it wasn't until I woke up one day after playing tennis and it was super stuff and swollen that I knew something was really wrong.
>>76944810Knees over toes guy. Same, had like 70% of something of it removed. It was horribly torn for a year and I kept training on it (was new everyone told me the pain was normal, it’s not). They had to resurface the bones. Have a bone on bone knee. Tore other knee got surgery immediately. First knee tore again, didn’t get the surgery.>fell out of liftingGot depressed>babied knee for years>tried to get into walking and running would hurt so gave that up to got out of shape and fat let diet go to shit>another few years later went to the mountains did some hiking>started sprinting down the mountain, jumping from stone to stone (really fucking fun)>slipped twisted ankle>got home with swollen ankle>realized knees don’t hurt just ankle>tried to back into exercising but knee began hurting again>started looking into it>found knees over toes guy>started applying his stuff>no more painAny pain is minimal. After this third tear it would lock up during my sleep and I would wake up with tears screaming having to manually bend my knee. I think I could skipped all the babying it if I found knees over toes guy. Look into his stuff. In the mean time while fresh out of surgery ice, ibuprofen, and some heat are your friends.>>76944962You’re mostly correct however>works with military / athletesCan be really fucking bad. The guy I went to is who the pro athletes in my state go to. He does this surgery with the mindset of “they’re going to be back to training within weeks they’re okay blowing their knees out and being crippled when they’re elderly since they’re retiring at 35-45”.He wouldn’t even entertain the implant option, said it had a high fail rate from what he had seen. Yeah, if your patient is going back to training for football games within a couple weeks of surgery no shit. They actually have a high success rate among normal people. It doesn’t matter now, but I could have avoided having bone on bone knees in my 20s
>>76945242I can run walk long distances jump fences handle falls of 6 feet again, crouch kneel for long periods climb stairs again no problem do squats again.OP you’re not fucked it’s just a pain in the ass. Look into knees over toes guy his stuff is legit. You’ll be good.
