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Posterior knee pain, 4 months after post medial meniscal surgery. Possible baker's cyst, hamstring area? Have seen the doctor 3 times since surgery, he can't figure it out...arthritis, hamstring strain? PT with ice, no relief...meds don't do much either...gets worse as the day goes on...hard to flex. 46 y/o former UT runner...where is the pain coming from? The pain is right behind the knee and throbs at times, night time in the bed as well. Worse as the day goes on. Have had 4 surgerys on this knee...Grade IV femoral malicia. Is it a possible tear, baker cyst or what causing the pain? I have run out of options. Anybody experience this? Relief mechanisms? Recovery time?

What is the cause of my lateral and posterior knee pain? I started experiencing some pain in my knee about a week ago. A little while after I went for a long run I started feeling some tightness and a sharp pain on the outside of my left knee. My leg was stiff and sore for the rest of the day and it hurt very badly to walk down stairs. When I woke up the next morning it felt a little better, so I decided to go for another run after school. About a mile into that run it started hurting again, but I kept running thinking that the pain would go away. I was able to finish my run that day but i've been in a lot of pain for the last 3 days. I attempted to jog a little bit today (3 days later) but the pain was too extreme to make it more then 30 strides or so. This is definantly not joint pain, I feel the pain in the tendons/ligaments/muscles in my knee/leg. I have not experienced any pain related to the knee cap. The symptoms i've been experiencing: 1. Sharp pain on outside of knee when going up and down stairs 2. Sharp pain on outside and back of knee when walking very far or running 3. Sharp pain on back of knee when straightening my leg while sitting down 4. Slight swelling on outside of knee Note: I had surgery on this same knee 4 years ago, and then again last year to straighten my leg. I also have flat feet, but have been running in the same shoes I wore for cross country. Any help you can give me would be much appreciated!!

Why do I have posterior knee pain and my leg is swollen? Dr. admitted me overnight to hospital because she thought it was a bloodclot, that was negative. The swelling remians and the pain is bad. It hurts more when I try to bend it. I am on ibuprofin 800 mg 3Xday. Dr. says "just rest it, and put heat to it" but it isn't helping. Before this happened, I had fallen in the driveway and bruised my knee and side of my leg above the knee, this started after it had healed. The pain even wakes me up at night. Well, went to the Dr. today: she did another blood test for a clot, and I had a bad ekg.. ST-T problems, at least I think that is what she said, so now she is also ordering a stress test, and carotid doppler...anyone have input on why....? Forgot to say, she said "no" on the Baker's cyst.

Why do I still have knee pain and swelling 4 weeks AFTER arthroscopic medial partial menisectomy? female, age 32, still have significant (primarily posterior) knee pain 4 weeks after surgery

Last ski season while falling with style and grace I began to feel pain in my knee. What do the findings mean? The MRI findings indicate the lateral meniscus is intact. The medial meniscus shows diffuse intramuscular signal with the posterior horn. Small knee effusion. Signal within the posterior horn of the medial meniscus, likely degenerative. After a month of therapy the pain continues.

Pain on lateral, posterior region of the knee... MD didn't care.? I'm looking randomly for any clues on what to research and confront my stupid general practitioner with. For several months now, the outside area around my near has been hurting. Over the past 3 weeks, it's gotten to the point where it will flare up to near excruciating. I went to my doctor, and he focused on the fact that I will sometimes get twinges on the front of my knee. He decided I have a patellar misallignment. After asking how that would relate to my major source of pain, he said that it didn't really... but that my only problem was the patella! *stab* So, I did the dumb exercises and now while I don't get anymore twinges, the back of my knee is hurting worse than ever. No matter what position is it in, whether I'm laying down or standing up, it's sore and then flares to agony. The joint feels stiff all around now, and it's sometimes hard to extend or flex the leg. - Additional info: 25yr female, moderately overweight and improving. Work as a veterinary technician/assistant so I'm frequently on my feet for long periods of time, and often kneeling as well. I have a history of joint laxity, so that my knees and elbows both hyper-extend (my initial thoughts on what was wrong with me) as well frequent sprains of both ankles.

I have a dull, aching pain in the back of my left knee? Please help!? Normally, I'm a really active girl.. but just recently as school has let out I stopped running, stretching & exercising in general. But several days ago when I was laying down, I began to feel a dull pain in the back of my left knee. It's not so much painful, just extremely annoying as I can feel it all the time. What the heck happened? It's only in the back of my left knee. Can someone tell me what it may be and what could have caused it? I haven't exercised at all. Also, I tried stretching the leg in several different ways, and the farther I stretched it, the pain increased. I also tried icing it but that didn't help at all. I'm thinking about running again, but do you think this will aggravate my posterior knee? Yikes.. sorry about all the questions, but I will WHOLLY appreciate anyone who can answer them. I want to quell my insecurity about this little problem before going to a doctor. Also, I'm 16 years old and healthy. I am not overweight and I run cross country & track

When standing on one leg, putting my pants on, I experienced excruciating anterior thigh pain.? The pain was also felt in my posterior pelvis. I have been immobile for 4 weeks now, unable to sit greater than 30 degree angle. There are patches of numbness and pain on my thigh, between my hip and knee. Pain to my pelvis continues, being somewhat alleviated by heat, muscle relaxants and painkillers. XRays show nothing extraordinary. Any suggestions? Frustrated in Hamilton

Where is the location of posterior horn of the medial meniscus? I hurt my knee, and recently had an MRI done. They said I had a complex tear of posterior horn of my medial meniscus. And I was wonder if that is on the inside or the outside of the left knee? But I cannot tell for myself because I still have pain all over my knee. also I was just wonder what the healing time for this injury is, and does it require any type of surgery? and if so how long is rehabilitation? Thanks. Im a very active 15 year old. I play varsity tennis, basketball and softball. I deffinatly want the shortest rehab time if I indeed need surgery. Thanks for all you help. When I first injured my knee, the DR said i dislocated it and soon ordered 6-8 weeks of physical therpy. when I completed that, i still had a lot of pain and sweeling. So next he ordered an MRI and it reviled that I had a complex tear of my medial meniscus. It also showed that i had a bakers cyst. And I was also wonder what that was too.

What muscles/tendons attach at the back of the knee that would make jumping or running painful if injured? I have been off sports for two months due to some kind of injury at the back of my left knee. My Dr. checked for meniscus and ligament damage and said she didn't think there was any. The pain is on eccentric/retractive movement, not on impact and seems to be located where the gastroc attaches to something - the posterior cruciate maybe? I do not have knee instability.. What could this be? I'm itching to get back to running but whenever I try it after time off I end up back in pain for the next two-three days. Help!

What should I expect 4 weeks post op (knee arthroscopy for partial menisectomy)? Injured knee first part of Jan. Had first MRI which showed no tears, just thinning cartilage. Waited nearly a month, no change in pain, etc. had second MRI which showed "intrasubstance signal in posterior horn of medial meniscus and type II prepatellar bursal edema". OS recm'd arthroscopy. Had surgery end of Feb. (partial medial menisectomy). Have been in PT for 4 weeks now. Having pretty significant medial knee pain AGAIN and almost like a burning sensation behind knee. I am icing daily but even so it swells up like a melon after pretty much any activity. Not sure what to think or how to proceed. I want to get back to my fitness classes and running and knee won't allow me to do so. FRUSTRATED and not really wanting to have any other "procedures" done. Any advice?

I Guess You Could Call It Leg Pain? This has been going on for quite a few months and I really don't know what's wrong with my leg. I tried going to a few doctors, including a chiropractor, but they haven't figured it out. I've also had an xray that showed nothing. At first I thought it was my hip, but it's not. I'm unable to sit up and put my left leg straight out in front of me. I can with my right, just not the left without screaming. I also can't lay on my back and, with my leg straight, raise my foot up in the air more than about 45 degrees. It also hurts to do normal every day activities-it even hurts sitting here typing (just not as much as if I was to actually do something). If you were to look at my leg from the posterior view the pain goes down my left side of the back of my leg-mostly in the middle of the leg and below the hip socket area. Sometimes it will hurt above the back of my knee on the left side of my leg as well. I haven't been able to exercise in a long time because of this which has caused me to gain 40lbs-I used to be in good shape! It's really driving me crazy not being able to do anything! Do any of you have any ideas as to what it is? Thank you.

MRI and Knee injury questions? I injured my knee twice in 2 months. And was treated and had surgery for a chondral fracture to my medial femoral condyle. Since then I had a followup MRI. As I`m still having some problems with the knee. The MRI says I have Chondromalacia Patella. Mucoid degeneration of the posterior horn of my medial meniscus. And a Baker`s Cyst, with small joint effusion. My knee is always stiff with a nagging pain. And kneeling squatting,and going up and downstairs too much bothers it. And there is a constant numbing pain behind the knee. I go back to see my doctor next week. But he just gives me cortisone shots. And has me wearing a support brace. I`m an active, fit, 48 year old male. Last summer I was fine. Now it feels like my knee is 80 years old. Can all this be just from my injuries? And is there anything else surgically or otherwise I can do? And I`ll talk to my doctor about it. Thanks!

Partial anterior and posterior cruciate ligament tear - Whats the best treatment in Chennai, India ? My mom met with an accident and got a minor fracture in her left knee. Immediately after the accident, she was admitted in the hospital and got the bandages done. After say a month, it was removed and she was recommended to undergo physiotherapy. After two months, she still had the pain in her knee and now after diagnosis, it has been found to be "partial anterior and posterior cruciate ligament tear". She was suggested to undergo a surgery to fix this problem, however after a scan, found that the knee fracture is not yet cured and so the ligament tear surgery cannot be done for now. Its been 4 months now since the accident happened but no cure yet. The calcium tablets & the physiotherapy were all only waste, her condition has not improved much. So could someone tell me whether a surgery is mandatory or if there is any alternative and equally reliable cure for this. If someone could suggest doctors & hospitals in and around Chennai, India, that'd be great. Thanks.

Can you help me understand my knee MRI scan report? Last year I hit a wall with my leg, which caused a lot of pain in my knee. I thought I torn my cartilage or something, and I was very very sad. Anyway, I just have had MRI and the report says Findings: - Minimal Joint effusion - Normal MRI Structural appearance and signal intensity of the anterior and posterior horns of both medial and lateral menisci with no evidance of tears or degenerative changes. - intact anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments, medial and lateral collateral ligaments as well as patella tendon, all of which appear of normal singal intensity. - Normal MRI appearance of articular cartilage. - Normal femerotibial alignment. - No bone marrow abnormality noted. - No line of fracture is seen. the problem is that when I exercise, or walk, my knee clicks and it hurts a little. Anyway, I felt better after the 10 days medication, but still my knee is not as the other normal one. I suppose that my knee is fine and I can liftweight ? Thanks for help

What is happening to my leg? I have been having pain in my leg behind the knee for about the last four weeks. It hurts when every I bend or pressure it. The pain is in the big tendon on the posterior lateral side of my knee. Does anyone know what is wrong and if it is tendonitis what exercises I should do to make it better?

What RE (Reenlistment) Code will a Soldier Receive When Separating At 20% Disability With Severance Pay? Facts: I'm getting out at 20% disability: Chronic Right Knee Pain 10% and Left posterior tendenopathy 10% I'm getting severance pay, for 13 years of service What will my RE Code be? RE Code 3 or RE Code 4? What determines what my RE Code will be? Or what regulation can I lookup that tells me what RE code I will get. My separation code will be JFL Physical Disability - Severance Pay

Back pain and both legs are in pain and left leg is numb? I had an accident four years ago, resulting from that I had L4-5 disc protrusion. A few days ago I felt down from two feet high on my back and like a sitting position. My buttocks and my lower back were bruised for a while. I went to my orthopedic doctor and he recommended taking a MRI. The result was as follow (T1, T2 MRI technique): The alignment, signal intensity and height of the lumbar vertebrae are normal. The conus medullaris is located at an appropriate level with normal caliber and signal. There is degenerative signal loss at L4-L5 disc with mild disc bulge and central posterior disc protrusion. This slightly possibly abuts the traversing bilateral L5 nerve roots without apparent compression. Bilateral neural formation are patent. There is no significant disc bulge or protrusion but minimal degenerative signal loss at L5-S1 disc otherwise the remainder of the intervertebral discs are normal. The central canal and neural foramina are widely patent. IMPRESSION: Minimal central posterior disc protrusion at L4-L5 disc without significant nerve root compression. Minimal disc degeneration at L4-L5 and L5-S1 disc. Comparison is made to the prior MRI. No significant change is noted. However I have sever pain in my lower back, the pain goes to my left knee, heel and calf and all the way to my small toe, and my left leg is half numb. Also I have pain going to my right leg, knee, hill and big toe. The pain is so severe that even with taking pain medicine, anti inflammatory and muscle relaxant, I still have pain. And my orthopedic doctor say there is nothing changed since your last MRI, and asking me to see a Psychiatrist and referred me to a pain management doctor. Is the MRI accurate and what else could be wrong? Please advice. Thanks, Amy

Pain/Injury in my foot from running? Okay so I am a distance runner in cross country season at the moment. We are a very serious team running every single day ranging between 6 and 15 miles a day. I know overtraining causes injury but my coach is insistant on this training schedule and I guess our team just bears it for a few months. My past injuries include lower back problems, runners knee (tendonitis in my patella), and my current problems include IT band syndrome, shin splints (but ive had them for 2 and a half years now), posterior tibial tendonitis, and now this foot pain. I have been researching online and I am not sure what I have. It's on the forefront of my foot I believe, and if you go from the knobby ankle bone on the outside of the foot and go straight towards the toes about 2 in, there are a cluster of tendons or ligaments or something there and that's where the pain is. It's like the little squishy part of the foot (that's the only other way I can describe it. It's swollen right now and has been for about 12 hours. I ran in a meet, if anyone knows Manhattan Invite that was the meet, and it didn't hurt during the race but it started hurting during my cooldown and has hurt since. I can walk on it if I put the weight on the outside of my foot, but not if I am walking normally. It also hurts to move it in a circle. That's all I can think of, If you have any ideas please tell me I need to make it throught another month and a half of the season. Also, if it will help at all I do pronate, but I got custom orthotics when I was diagnosed with the tibial tendonitis (and It actually made that go away). Possibilities I found online were anterior tibial tendoinitis or just an ankle sprain/strain, but I wasn't exactly sure if where my foot it and where those tendons/ligaments are matched up. Thanks for your help, sorry this was so long. **If you see a repeat of this it's because I am asking this question in two categories

Foot Pain/Injury After Running? Okay so I am a distance runner in cross country season at the moment. We are a very serious team running every single day ranging between 6 and 15 miles a day. I know overtraining causes injury but my coach is insistant on this training schedule and I guess our team just bears it for a few months. My past injuries include lower back problems, runners knee (tendonitis in my patella), and my current problems include IT band syndrome, shin splints (but ive had them for 2 and a half years now), posterior tibial tendonitis, and now this foot pain. I have been researching online and I am not sure what I have. It's on the forefront of my foot I believe, and if you go from the knobby ankle bone on the outside of the foot and go straight towards the toes about 2 in, there are a cluster of tendons or ligaments or something there and that's where the pain is. It's like the little squishy part of the foot (that's the only other way I can describe it. It's swollen right now and has been for about 12 hours. I ran in a meet, if anyone knows Manhattan Invite that was the meet, and it didn't hurt during the race but it started hurting during my cooldown and has hurt since. I can walk on it if I put the weight on the outside of my foot, but not if I am walking normally. It also hurts to move it in a circle. That's all I can think of, If you have any ideas please tell me I need to make it throught another month and a half of the season. Also, if it will help at all I do pronate, but I got custom orthotics when I was diagnosed with the tibial tendonitis (and It actually made that go away). Possibilities I found online were anterior tibial tendoinitis or just an ankle sprain/strain, but I wasn't exactly sure if where my foot it and where those tendons/ligaments are matched up. Thanks for your help, sorry this was so long.

ACL damaged; now more pain? I had a tumor removed/total posterior synovectomy for PVNS in June. When they were in there; they loosed my ACL so much that is not functioning. Then in August I had an complete anterior synovectomy on the same knee. I was diagnosed with RSD after the 2nd surgery. I am on Elavil for chronic pain. I have been doing VERY well the past few weeks (barely any pain). Sunday; I slipped on my gravel driveway. Now my knee is swelling up more by the day. My skin on my right knee (the damaged one) is Much Hotter than the left. And it hurts ALOT on the inside. Do you have any idea what this could be? I'm going to the doctor tomorrow but would like to know if I should ask any questions? Expect certain tests?

Can someone tell me if I have Sciatica? My leg is constantly numb, and I get pain in the hamstring behind the knee. Plus the numbness spreads to my feet now and again. I also get a burning sensation now and again in my quadracep where again, it is constantly numb. I had a massage last week, therapist said my posterior hip joint felt abnormal. Could this hip problem be the cause of the Sciatica? Causing pressure and inflammation?

why does my back and left leg hurt? since i was small i've had chronic back pain. i've seen numerous doctors abt it but none of them have concluded what the root cause of the pain is. i've noticed that my back pain leads to left lower limb pain especially on the posterior side of my leg and around the knee area. my backpain increases if i'm studying for an exam or feeling a bit depressed (weird isn't it?). basically every morning i wake up with back pain and after i go to the bathroom (and poop!) my back pain is gone. if i have indigestion, my back hurts. if i feel constipated, back hurts. Sometimes if i drink something cold too fast i "feel" it going down my spine, like a chill! any ideas as to what might me wrong? and yep, i've seen a LOT of doctors!

Knee MRI questions? And advice sought ASAP!? I injured my knee twice at work hitting it on a concrete floor. I continued to work after the first incident in July. But have been off 6 months since the last incident in September. I went to a W/C panel doctor for treatment. He performed arthroscopic surgery on my knee. And found a very significant chondral defect on my medial femoral condyle. Caused in his opinion by the trauma my knee received. He said he shaved it down and cleaned it up. I recently went to a new orthopedic doctor of my choice. As I`m continuing to have pain and mobility problems after the surgery, and 6 weeks of physical therapy. This doctor ordered an MRI of my knee. Something the other one never did. The MRI reveals the following issues. There is small joint effusion. And a very small Baker`s cyst. There is mucoid degeneration of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus without evidence of discrete tear. Also chondromalacia of the patellofemoral compartment. Without evidence of a full thickness articular cartilage defect. And of course some arthritis. The new doctor has given me a cortisone injection. And prescribed 6 more weeks of PT. He thinks I`ll be able to return to work with limitations,and wearing a padded brace. But I work as a corrections officer. And there is no full time light duty post. Works wants me to comeback yesterday. And without limitations.But my union and I don`t trust them if I continue to have problems! My question is from the injuries I`ve descibed. Do you believe that my knee will only get worse as time goes on? I am 48 years old. And up until my injuries always exercised and kept in shape. Now I just do the PT and walk on a treadmill for 30 minutes a day. Its very frustrating! I never had any knee problems before. Its hard to believe all this can come from 2 good hits on my knee! Hopefully someone out there can shine a light on my injuries and predicament! THANKS!

Grade 2 intrameniscal tear within the posterior horn of the medial meniscus? So while training, I rotated my leg and felt a snapping motion in my knee. The next couple of days my leg swell up and was quite painful to walk on. The pain however subsided in the next few days. I went to get an MRI Here are the results of the MRI " The examination reveals a thin linear focus of increased signal within the posterior horn of the medial meniscus which does not extend to the articular surface and is consistent with a grade 2 intrameniscal tear. Mild myxoid changes are present within the lateral meniscus. The anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments are intact. Mild diffuse thickening of the lateral collateral ligament si consistent with a sprain of this structure. The medial collateral and patellar ligamnets are intact. A minimal join effusion is present." I have an option of undergoing a surgery. I was wondering whether anyone had the surgery done to them, and how did it play out? How was the recovery time? Was the join function fully restored after this? Are there perhaps surgery alternatives like physical therapy? Thank you in advance for your answers.

Pain Clinic Help? Greetings, Lots of questions about pain clinics. I was just told that after 12 yrs I will finally be seeing a specialist in the Veterans Admin system. A bit of history first. 43 yr old male former active duty Marine within the last 14 yrs I have had: C spine fused x3 2 anterior 1 posterior c3-c6 Lumbar Spine fused x4 operations 1 discectomy, 1 fusion graft, 1 fusion + rod emplacement, 1 rod broke and repaired. Left knee ACL/MCL replacement. Multiple broken ribs, right femur, right ankle, cardiac arrest. I have been seen by the VA for 12 yrs after medical retirement 80% perm/total. They have had me on various pain meds but primarily MS Contin 3 30mg a day by mouth and percocet 6 -24 hours. A few yrs ago they had me on much more of oxycodone without the tylenol but I couldn't function at work so asked for reduction and that was granted. I have never asked for my prescription early and I am disciplined in taking it. I have tried ever since to get to a pain clinic for full support. I feel like there certainly has to be better meds than MS contin. I travel a lot I help foreign govts set up high tech computer crime task forces. I work hard and enjoy life have a wonderful supportive wife. She approached me and begged me to stop "sucking up" the pain and that she could see it was ruining my life. Well no big mystery there. CONSTANT severe pain. Some days and nights I just want to end it. My neck feels broken all over again as does my back. The pain down to the bones is amazingly intense. My body literally feels like it is ripping itself apart much of the time. I really can't live like this anymore. So now that I have an appointment I'd like tips to accurately describe my pain and condition. I feel like I do a horrible job describing. I have started a journal in hopes that will help. I am guessing they are pros and are totally able to help me figure this out. I am not confident in the VA though not a great place. So any tips would be helpful wish me luck!!

Workers comp question? I injured my knee at work.? I was injured at work. And my knee was scoped for a chondral fracture. And the following MRI revealed Chondromalacia,a Baker`s cyst,arthritis,and degeneration of the posterior horn meniscus. I was fine and active before the injury. But continue to have pain and mobility problems now. I miss my work, and my friends! And would like to return someday soon. But my union has advised me not to return unless fully healed from the injury. Saying management can`t be trusted! I work in law enforcement in Pa. And there are no light duty positions where I work. I don`t know whether to go back and say i`m okay or remain out? Any advice, from your experiences with a similar situation is gladly accepted! Thanks!

Having problems with one of my knees. Have pills to stop some pain. any other suggestions..? Hurt in car accident...Swelling and very painful to walk...Looking for alternatives to an operation...Condition called Chronic tear of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus with osteochondral defect...

I had my posterior and anterior cruciate ligament replaced when I was 17....? Its really starting to play up again. My right knee grinds as I walk and its very easy to twist upon it and then its in pain for days. What options are there for both pain relief and further repairwork on the leg?

What's the difference between the meniscus injuries I have? Last year I had knee pain and an MRI found, "There is abnormal signal of the body and posterior horn of the medial meniscus, it appears to extend to the inferior surface and is felt likely present a tear here. The tip is also slightly truncated. The lateral meniscus is normal," as well as everything else. I had surgery and everything went fine, till I fell off a ladder at work. This new MRI discovered: "A complex tear of the posterior horn and body of the medial meniscus with extension to both the superior and inferior meniscus surfaces. The anterior horn of the medial meniscus and the entire lateral meniscus appear to be normal without evidence for tears." What's the difference between the two? Please provide picture if possible. Medical jargon gets me lost. - B

Would it require surgery? Any docs to give opinion? My husband, 32 years old, had been suffering with right knee pain and instability for almost 3 months now. Although we have an appointment with the doctor want to know what he would suggest. His MRI report reads as following: * Menisci: A large tear is seen involving the posterior horn and body of the medial meniscus. A .5cm meniscus cyst is also seen. The lateral meniscus is intact. *Bony structure and articular cartilage: Minimal edema is seen involving the most medial aspect and medial compartment. No fractures are seen. *Joint space: Moderate joint effusion is present. *Soft tissue:: Unremarkable. We got the MRI done when he was unable to walk for a day and there was swelling around the knee. Although now the swelling is not there and the pain lessened considerably , but if he walks fast the pain resumes.Is it possible for him to travel (a 20 hr flight) in this condition? Would surgery be necessary? Thanks

can you tell me what my mri report means? Left knee pain ,normal signal intensity asso. w/the marrow of the left patella as well as distal femur &proximal left tibia fibula. minimal red marrow is present within the distal femoral diaphysis. Normal signal intensity and configuration are asso. w/ the lateral minisci. There is subtle increased signal within the central portion of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus not extending to it's articular surfice. This may be secondary to degenerative signal . There is normal configuration of the articular surfaces of the femoral and tibial condyles. Normal signal intensity and configuration are assoc. w/ the cruciate and collateral ligaments as well as patellar tendon. small left knee joint effusion collects laterally .

Need Assessment of Symptoms. What do u think? It began as a flare-up of SI pain upon a lift (very light object). After 2 weeks SI pain gone but left leg pain began. Feeling pain deep to proximal attachment of hamstrings that cause debilitating pain for about 10-30 seconds. This 'spasm' (similar to the feeling of 'charlie horse') is preceeded by pressure in the head. Referal is into the posterior left leg, lateral aspect knee/calf, and lateral malleolous. Aggravated by rotation of the C-sp to the right, occaisionally by spine extension, and sneeze/cough causes instability feeling in low back. ?????

does anyone want to read this ( i know its so wierd but maybe any yahooligans here wanted to see it ) caution! The Basics Where does fart gas come from? The gas in our intestines comes from several sources: air we swallow, gas seeping into our intestines from our blood, gas produced by chemical reactions in our guts, and gas produced by bacteria living in our guts. What is fart gas made of? The composition of fart gas is highly variable. Most of the air we swallow, especially the oxygen component, is absorbed by the body before the gas gets into the intestines. By the time the air reaches the large intestine, most of what is left is nitrogen. Chemical reactions between stomach acid and intestinal fluids may produce carbon dioxide, which is also a component of air and a product of bacterial action. Bacteria also produce hydrogen and methane. But the relative proportions of these gases that emerge from our anal opening depend on several factors: what we ate, how much air we swallowed, what kinds of bacteria we have in our intestines, and how long we hold in the fart. The longer a fart is held in, the larger the proportion of boring, inert nitrogen it contains, because the other gases tend to be absorbed into the bloodstream through the walls of the intestine. A nervous person who swallows a lot of air and who moves stuff through his digestive system rapidly may have a lot of oxygen in his farts, because his body didn't have time to absorb the oxygen. Encyclopaedia Britannica offers the intriguing statement that some people's farts contain no methane. The reason for this is apparently unknown. Some researchers suspect a genetic influence, whereas others think the anomaly is due to environmental factors. However, all methane in any farts comes from bacterial action and not from human cells. What makes farts stink? The odor of farts comes from small amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans in the mixture. These compounds contain sulfur. The more sulfur-rich your diet, the more sulfides and mercaptans will be produced by the bacteria in your guts, and the more your farts will stink. Foods such as cauliflower, eggs and meat are notorious for producing smelly farts, whereas beans produce large amounts of not particularly stinky farts. Why do farts make noise? The sounds are produced by vibrations of the anal opening. Sounds depend on the velocity of expulsion of the gas and the tightness of the sphincter muscles of the anus. How much gas does a normal person pass per day? On average, a person produces about half a liter of fart gas per day, distributed over an average of about fourteen daily farts. Whereas it may be difficult for you to determine your daily flatus volume, you can certainly keep track of your daily numerical fart count. You might try this as a science fair project: Keep a journal of everything you eat and a count of your farts. You might make a note of the potency of their odor as well. See if you can discover a relationship between what you eat, how much you fart, and how much they smell. How does a fart travel to the anus? One may wonder why fart gas travels downward toward the anus when gas has a lower density than liquids and solids, and should therefore travel upwards. The intestine squeezes its contents toward the anus in a series of contractions, a process called peristalsis. The process is stimulated by eating, which is why we often need to poop and fart right after a meal. Peristalsis creates a zone of high pressure, forcing all intestinal contents, gas included, to move towards a region of lower pressure, which is toward the anus. Gas is more mobile than other components, and small bubbles coalesce to from larger bubbles en route to the exit. When peristalsis is not active, gas bubbles may begin to percolate upwards again, but they won't get very far due to the complicated and convoluted shape of the intestine. Furthermore, the anus is neither up nor down when a person is lying down. How long does it take fart gas to travel to someone else's nose? Fart travel time depends on atmospheric conditions such as humidity, temperature and wind speed and direction, the molecular weight of the fart particles, and the distance between the fart transmitter and the fart receiver. Farts also disperse (spread out) as they leave the source, and their potency diminishes with dilution. Generally, if the fart is not detected within a few seconds, it will be too dilute for perception and will be lost into the atmosphere forever. Exceptional conditions exist when the fart is released into a small enclosed area such as an elevator, a small room, or a car. These conditions limit the amount of dilution possible, and the fart may remain in a smellable concentration for a long period of time, until it condenses on the walls. Why is there a 13 to 20 second delay between farting and the time it starts to smell? Actually, the fart stinks immediately upon emergence, but it takes several seconds for the odor to travel to the farter's nostrils. If farts could travel at the speed of sound, we would smell them almost instantly, at the same time we hear them. Is it true that some people never fart? No, not if they're alive. People even fart shortly after death. Do even movie stars fart? Yes, of course. So do grandmothers, priests, kings, presidents, opera singers, beauty queens, and nuns. Even Yoda farts. Do men fart more than women? No, women fart just as much as men. It's just that most men take more pride in it than most women. There is a large variation among individuals in the amount of fart gas produced per day, but the variation does not correlate with gender. I have read that men fart more often than women. If this is true, then women must be saving it up and expelling more gas per fart than men do. Do men's farts smell worse than women's farts? Based on what I have experienced of women's farts, all I can say is that I hope not. At what time of day is a gentleman most likely to fart? A gentleman is mostly likely to fart first thing in the morning, while in the bathroom. This is known as "morning thunder," and if the gentleman gets good resonance, it can be heard throughout the household. Why are beans so notorious for making people fart? Beans contain sugars that we humans cannot digest. When these sugars reach our intestines, the bacteria go wild, have a big feast, and make lots of gas! Other notorious fart-producing foods include corn, bell peppers, cabbage, milk, and raisins. A friend of mine had a dog who was exceptionally fond of apples and turnips. The dog would eat these things and then get prodigious gas. A dog's digestive system is not equipped to handle such vegetable matter, so the dog's bacteria worked overtime to produce remarkable flatulence. What things other than diet can make a person fart more than usual? People who swallow a lot of air fart more than people who don't. This can be cured somewhat by chewing with your mouth closed. Nervous people with fast moving bowels will fart more because less air is absorbed out of the intestines. Some disease conditions can cause excess flatulence. And going up in an airplane or other low-pressure environment can cause the gas inside you to expand and emerge as flatulence. Is a fart really just a burp that comes out the wrong end? No, a burp emerges from the stomach and has a different chemical composition from a fart. Farts have less atmospheric gas content and more bacterial gas content than burps. Is it harmful to hold in farts? There are differences in opinion on this one. Certainly, people have believed for centuries that retaining flatulence is bad for the health. Emperor Claudius even passed a law legalizing farting at banquets out of concern for people's health. There was a widespread belief that a person could be poisoned or catch a disease by retaining farts. Doctors I have spoken to recently have told me that there is no particular harm in holding in farts. Farts will not poison you; they are a natural component of your intestinal contents. The worst thing that can happen is that you may get a stomach ache from the gas pressure. But one doctor suggested that pathological distention of the bowel could result if a person holds in farts too much. How long would it be possible to not fart? As I understand it, a captive fart can escape as soon as the person relaxes. This means that a lot of people who assiduously refrain from farting during the day do so at great length as soon as they fall asleep. Having been on a great many overnight field trips, long bus trips, and trans-Pacific flights, I can personally vouch for the fact that lots of people do fart voluminously as they doze off. So the answer to the question would be, you can refrain from farting as long as you can stay awake! Do all people fart in their sleep? I have not made a scientific study of this, but I don't think all people fart in their sleep. I think mainly those who refuse to fart when they're awake do so when dozing off. For other people, toilet training takes such a strong hold that they let nothing pass their sphincters in sleep. For these people, the gas accumlates in the night and they vent it upon awakening. Where do farts go when you hold them in? How often have you held in a fart, intending to release it at the first appropriate opportunity, only to find that the fart has disappeared when you are ready for it? I asked several doctors where the fart goes. Does it leak out slowly without the person knowing it? Is it absorbed into the bloodstream? What happens to it? The doctors agree that the fart is neither released nor absorbed. It simply migrates back upward into the intestine and comes out later. It is reassuring to know that such farts aren't really lost, just delayed. How can one cover up a fart? There is a company called Fartypants that sells underwear designed to absorb the odor of farts. If you should be caught without your Fartypants, another ploy is to blame the dog or cat, if one should be present, or complain about how the wind must be blowing from the direction of the paper mill. As for the sound... if you are in a large group of people, act oblivious and innocent, or glance quickly at the person next to you, as if you think he/she did it. Other strategies include coughing or suddenly moving your chair so that people think that they misheard the fart. If you are with one other person, you can act as if nothing happened, and the other person may believe he was mistaken in thinking he heard a fart. CJT addresses the problem of farting loudly in a public restroom as follows: "My solution: use a handful of loose toilet paper, cover your butt hole and it will muffle the farting; my friends and I call it the 'Buff Muff'!" Depending upon the company, another strategy is not to cover it up, but to proudly proclaim the fart as your own grand accomplishment and to issue a challenge to the others to outdo that one if they think they can. Is it really possible to ignite farts? The answer to that is yes! However, you should be aware that people get injured igniting flatulence. Not only can the flame back up into your colon, but your clothing or other surroundings may catch on fire. A survey done by Fartcloud (the site, alas! is not more) indicates that about a quarter of the people who ignited their farts got burned doing it. Ignition of flatulence is a hazardous practice. However, if you want to try it, and you don't have a friend to light your fart for you, you might find it easier to accomplish the job using the Fartlighter. There have also been cases in which intestinal gases with a higher than normal oxygen content have exploded during surgery when electric cautery was used by the surgeon. Why is it possible to burn farts? Farts burn because they contain methane (usually) and hydrogen, both of which are flammable gases. (Hydrogen was the same gas that was used in the ill fated Hindenburg dirigible.) Farts tend to burn with a blue or yellow flame. Is it possible to light a match with a fart? No, even strike-anywhere matches have their limits, unless the fart has the consistency of sandpaper! Any fart that rough I would hesitate to call a fart. Also, farts have the same temperature as the body from which they emerge, and aren't hot enough to initiate combustion. Are there any books about farting? There are several! My favorite is the new book, Who Cut the Cheese: A Cultural History of the Fart by Jim Dawson. This book provides an entertaining and thought-provoking history of the fart in literature, language and society. It is very informative and very funny! Ben Franklin's classic Fart Proudly is still in print. There is a collection of suggestive photographs called Who Farted Now by St. Martin's Press. Most of the photos come from old movies and political shots. For children, we have the famous The Gas We Pass : The Story of Farts by Shinta Cho, and Amanda Mayer Stinchecum (Translator), and the Canadian picture book, Good Families Don't, by Alan Daniel and Robert N. Munsch, about a highly visible fart infesting a proper middle class family. Is it possible for a talented person to earn a living through flatulence? Few people earn their living directly via flatulence. But a friend of mine says that he saw a carnival act in which the performer whistled tunes with his farts, blew out candles on the opposite side of the stage, and sent flames all the way across the stage. A famous performer who earned his living this way was Le Petomane, who performed in France at the beginning of the 20th Century. However, my friend isn't old enough to have seen Le Petomane, so maybe he had a chance to see Mr. Methane. Mr. Methane lays claim to the distinction of being the world's only performing flatulist. His CD can be purchased at the FartMart. However, people may also earn a living through the prevention of flatulence (as do the manufacturers and sellers of Beano and other products), through the practice of medicine specializing in the treatment of flatulence and other gastrointestinal problems, by writing books about flatulence (see the question before this one), and through the production and sales of various fart gags such as whoopee cushions and farts in a can. Fartypants sells a fart filter and a number of other fart-related products. Ultratech Products, Inc., sells the Flatulence Filter, "an activated carbon air filter disguised as a seat cushion." (This link was discovered by Steve of Boulder, CO.) Maybe, if you're lucky, you'll be able to find a copy of Le Petomane's biography by searching at alibris.com. Last time I checked, they had two copies available! What other fart products are available? You can visit the FartMart to obtain an astounding number of wonderful fart products, including the famous Crepitation Contest CD, and several other recordings, Pull-My-Finger Fred (a doll that responds with farts and wisecracks), whoopie cushions and a variety of other fart-noise generating products (some of which are quite high tech), some products which produce a fart-like odor, prosthetic poop, fart sludge, and the famous Fart Machine. Why do dog and cat farts smell so bad? A carnivore's protein-rich diet produces relatively small amounts of intensely stinky gas because proteins contain lots of sulfur. A dog's or cat's farts are rarely audible, but the odor is overwhelming. I have asked biologists why dogs and cats generally fart silently, and their theories include: (1) the amount of gas produced is small, but potent, (2) the horizontal orientation of their gastrointestinal system puts less pressure on the anal opening, so the gas is expelled more slowly, (3) their anal sphincters don't close as tightly as humans' because it takes less force to hold in the contents of the colon -- again because of the horizontal orientation of the gastrointestinal system -- and a loose anus makes less sound, and, my favorite (4) dogs and cats don't feel embarrassed about farting, so their sphincters are more relaxed, leading to less noisy flatulence. Mike F. points out that many dog foods are soy-based, so on top of all the above factors, add beans and stand back! Large herbivorous animals such as cows, horses and elephants, on the other hand, produce vast quantities of relatively non-stinky fart gas. The farts of these animals are noisy and can go on for astoundingly long periods of time. Cows in particular are productive, in part because they swallow huge amounts of air. They need oxygen in their guts for the various protozoa employed there as digestive aids. Is it normal for dogs to like the smell of human farts? Yes, any odor that we find disgusting smells delicious to a dog. Dogs respond to the smell of farts, rotting fish, and carrion the same way we respond to the smell of bacon frying or cookies baking. A dog will often sniff the butt of the farter in order to inhale as much of the odor as possible. I have heard only one story about a dog being disconcerted by a fart. According to a friend, her brother once delivered a fart so evil that it made the dog sneeze, shake his head, and paw at his nose. That was either an unusual fart or an unusual dog. Do fish fart? According to our ichthyologist at the University of Guam, fish flatulence per se has not been studied, although people have investigated fish digestion. They find that although most fish have alkaline intestinal environments like our own, coral-eating fish have acidic intestinal contents. The acid serves to dissolve coral skeletal material. Coral has the same composition as Tums (calcium carbonate). One product of the reaction between acid and calcium carbonate is carbon dioxide gas. Therefore, it is logical to assume that coral-eating fish fart a lot. The other fish probably fart also, for the same reasons that we do. However, Mike Pulte, a great fish enthusiast, said that he has never seen a fish do it. I asked our ichthyologist if it were possible that fish gas would go into the swim bladder instead of out the anal opening. He said that modern fish have an air bladder that is independent of the gastrointestinal tract. The gas comes from enzymatic activity and not from the intestine. Older models of fish have their swim bladder connected to the gastrointestinal tract, but it is attached high up, closer to the mouth than to the other end, and these fish come to the surface and gulp air to fill the bladder. Therefore, we can assume that intestinal gas leaves the fish through the anal opening. We also pondered the possibility of fish making noise via flatulence, but apparently most fish noises are made through belching rather than farting. Lisa P., an aquarium enthusiast, reports that she has seen her fish fart: "I have four aquariums and many fish, and I have personally witnessed fish farting! My goldfish used to do it all the time! You'd see a little bubble come out of his anus and stay there, trapped in the mucus of a long string of poop. (Ugh!) And my opaline gourami does it too. Neither of these are coral-eating fish. I have only owned two coral-eating fish so far, but I have never seen either of them fart. It seems most likely to me that much of this gas comes from air swallowed during eating. Also, goldfish have a very simple digestive system and their food is absorbed inefficiently, so possibly the bacteria have more to feed on" Do turtles fart? Yes, turtles do fart, and their farts smell incredibly bad, as do the farts of snakes. In fact, it is my opinion, based on personal experience with reptiles and not on any formal research, that many reptiles use farts as a weapon. Reptile farts smell so bad that sometimes you can tell that one is nearby in the woods, even on a windy day, before you can see the animal. One day I was hiking through the woods in Arkansas with a friend and I told my friend, "I smell a snake fart." A second later, the snake crawled across the path. Astounding but true! In an article published in the December 2000 issue of Discover, "the world's leading expert on snake sounds," Bruce Young of LaFayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, affirmed that snakes do fart. The sonoran coral snake and the western hook-nosed snake fart with an audible popping sound when disturbed. Why do horse farts smell worse than people's farts? I'm not sure that horse farts smell worse than our farts, but they do smell different. Horses have a different diet from us and different gut microbes, so their farts have a different composition. They also fart more voluminously than humans, and the volume of the gas can be overwhelming if one is unfortunate enough to be near a farting horse indoors. What kind of animal has the highest worldwide output of flatulence? Believe it or not, the animal that wins this honor is the humble termite. Because of their diet and digestive processes (with more than the usual microbial assistance), they produce as much methane as human industry. Termite farts are believed to be a major contributor towards global warming. Is it true that cow farts contribute to global warming? Recent research has shown that most methane produced by cows and sheep emerges from the mouth rather than the anus. So one could more accurately say that cow and sheep belches are contributing to global warming. New Zealand researchers are investigating methods of breeding methane-free sheep. Is there any kind of animal that doesn't fart? If we define a fart to be an anal escape of intestinal gas, then it follows that animals that lack intestines or an anus cannot fart. Most animals possess intestines and an anus, but there are some that don't. These include: Sponges: These organisms lack true tissues and organs. They have just a few types of cells organized into a bag with holes in it. Water flows into some holes and out other holes. Sponges are so different from other animals that some biologists think we shouldn't even call them animals. Cnidaria: This phylum includes the jellyfish, corals, sea anemones and hydra. Their tissues are organized into a bag with a mouth surrounded by stinging tentacles. Food enters the mouth and is digested inside the bag, after which the leftovers are expelled via the same opening. In effect, the same hole serves as both a mouth and an anus. Any gas expelled by a cnidarian would be more appropriately termed a belch rather than a fart, since the animal lacks intestines and separate anus. Pogonophoran worms: These remarkable animals, who dwell on the sea floor near active volcanic regions associated with mid-ocean ridges, possess no mouth, no stomach, no intestines, and no anus. Apparently they retain their svelte, worm-shaped figures by giving up on eating completely! They survive by means of a mutualistic relationship with chemosynthetic bacteria that live in their flesh. Anyway, these animals cannot possibly fart. A second category of animals that probably don't fart are animals that live very deep underwater. At high pressures, gas remains in solution rather than forming bubbles. So there is a good chance that all those clams, echinoderms, fish and other animals living near the seafloor don't fart because their farts stay in solution and never emerge as bubbles, even though the animals possess perfectly good intestines and anuses. Is it possible to leave a brown spot on your pants because of a fart, and if so, what causes it? Judging from what I see when I do the laundry, I'd say that the answer to the first question is definitely yes. As for the causes, we must remember that what we call "fart" and what we call "poop" are just end-members of a continuum. That is, we can have a pure fart, or a pure poop, or anything in-between, depending upon the admixture of the two. If a sample consists mostly of poop with only a small fart component, you get such things as jet-propelled bowel movements and spongy, floating fecal masses (you know, the ones that refuse to be flushed down the toilet -- they keep popping back up). If the sample consists mostly of fart with only a small poop component, you get what is known as "skid marks" or "fart art." These can also result from inadequate wiping, but the shape of the stain is different in the two cases. Inadequate wiping leads to elongate marks parallel to one's crack, usually with well-defined edges, whereas fart art is generally more circular and has an air-brushed look. Fart art is most likely to occur if (1) a person is suffering from diarrhea, (2) the person is trying too hard to fart, and (3) the person mistakenly perceives the pressure against his sphincter to be gas pressure rather than liquid pressure. Again, that last situation is most likely to occur if the person is afflicted with diarrhea. How can we tell when it's only gas needing to come out, rather than something more serious? Our ability to distinguish between the need to fart and the need to poop is something that we learn gradually in the process of toilet training and early childhood. With the tactile nerve endings in the rectal area, we can actually feel different sensations depending upon what is waiting by the exit. Of course, sometimes we are fooled, especially if the substance at hand is extremely fluid in nature, and that is when we have the unfortunate accident of venting a squirt of diarrhea rather than an innocent fart. What is the best position for farting? That depends on what you are trying to achieve. Years and years ago, I read a novel (can't remember which) that had a character in it who was plagued with intestinal gas pain. The character would coax farts out by getting down on all fours with her butt in the air, pressing her thighs against her belly. So perhaps this is the best position for farting if you are having difficulty getting them to come out. Back when I was in geology field camp, we would sit around the campfire in the evening and ignite our flatulence. It was a ritual. When a fart was ready to emerge, the farter would announce, "I have one." And everyone else would intone, "Assume the proper position." The farter would lie back on his or her shoulders with back propped up, head between the knees, and posterior in the air. The purpose was to give the person with the match easy access to the critical vent. Expert farters of my acquaintance often shift their weight onto one leg and lift the other slightly when farting. I assume that this position is adopted less to aid in the farting process than to signal that a fart is imminent. Why do chicks always deny farting? I suppose I should start by saying that only some chicks deny farting. The rest of us acknowledge our gaseous accomplishments with pride. However, a great many sisters do deny farting. The reason is that they have been misled into thinking that farts are not ladylike. It is a great mistake to say that farting is not ladylike. The reason is that all people fart, including ladies. Anything that ladies do is by definition ladylike, and that includes the emission of anal gases. Is it possible that, by inhaling other people's farts all day long, my own farts will smell more? No, inhaled farts would go into the lungs rather than into the digestive system, and would simply be exhaled again, although it might be possible that some of the fart components might be absorbed into the blood. If you wanted to benefit from other people's farts in the way you describe, you would have to swallow them somehow. Is it possible to get stoned after inhaling two or three farts in a row? I am not aware of any intoxicating agents in flatulence. However, most farts contain very little oxygen, and you may experience dizziness if you are inhaling overly concentrated fart essence, simply from lack of oxygen. On the other hand, if you are inhaling farts in the open air and are breathing rapidly in order to inhale as much fart as possible, you may be hyperventilating, which also induces dizziness. Then there is the intrinsic hilarity factor: farts are so funny in both sound and odor that you might feel high just from the basic entertainment value of farts. Is it possible for a fart to kill you? A great many of you have asked if farts can be fatal, or if you can die from smelling a particularly bad fart. My initial response to this question was "no," but I thought I'd better ask a doctor. So now it is official, the medical opinion I received is no, a fart can't kill you. However, if you really work hard at it, you can manage to kill yourself with just about anything. I recently read of a man who hooked up his nose to his anus with a system involving a gas mask, rubber tubing and a hollow wooden post. He died of suffocation. This story comes from the Darwin Awards, and I personally cannot attest to the overall veracity of their stories. The story of the bed-bound obese man who died from inhaling his own flatulence (and whose farts almost killed the paramedics) is an urban legend that has been in circulation for some time. But according to Buzzbomb43, whom I quote: "In World War Two, the Air Force estimates that around 1000 to 2000 airmen were killed because of flatulence. The reason is B-17 bombers were not pressurized, so when bomber crews operated around 20,000 feet, the gas would expand and rupture their intestines." Now, that is a nasty way to go! There are also, of course, (in)famous stories about excessive farters that bio-hazard small toilet rooms, and when they try to light a cigarette the flame ignites the gas-rich-environment causing an explosion. My personal view about such stories is one of doubt. When you smoke and you fart does it make it smell any worse? (Brittney) Only if you swallow the cigarettes after smoking Brittney. If you settle for traditional smoking (inhaling) - the smoke will travel to your respiratory system and not to your digestive system and hence will have little-to-no effect on the odour of your farts. Of course, a minute mass of smoked Nicotine can (and does) migrate from the respiratory system into blood vessels and downstream to the digestive system (Nicotine is actually a known laxative), but the proportions are too small to contribute dearly to the odours you contribute. However, if you do swallow your cigarettes after smoking - its a different ball game. Cigarettes are produced with measures of Ammonia which certainly intensify gaseous odours. My advise for you therefore is not to swallow. I am guessing the reason why certain people think cigarettes might intensify the bad smell of a fart has to do with the fact both farts and cigarettes produce bad odours. I don't think however that this is a case of competing bad odours that in blend will create a third - even worst odour. Last, while I do not advise you to ever quit farting - I do strongly advise to quit smoking. Can excessive farting cause impotence? That depends on the tolerance level of the person with whom one is trying to be potent! Fortunately for humans, farting doesn't cause tissue damage. Other animals aren't so lucky. Soldier termites can actually turn themselves into bombs by detonating themselves via the explosive release of gas and feces, a process called "autothysis." Is it possible to inhale (suck in air) via one's anal opening? Yes, but it's a rare talent. The great early 20th Century French flatulist, Le Petomane, was able to do this, and in fact was able to suck up an entire bowlful of water (just the water, not the bowl) into his colon and expel it again with considerable force. By sucking in large quantities of air, he was able to perform lengthy shows on stage, and could imitate musical instruments, farm animals, and bird songs, whistle melodies, and play the ocarina. His productions were said to be virtually odorless, which is to be expected from air obtained directly from the outside. Here is a message I received recently (November, 1999) regarding the skill of inhaling via the anus: "i would just like you to know that i am part of a trio, who can suck in air in our anal openings. we are somewhat air-bandits. we can let the longest farts you have ever heard. our record holder, chad, stands at 24 sec. the record for most farts in a row is derek, at 492. and i, robert, have earned such nicknames as: Mad Crapper, gurglemeister, and old wetful. We have followed Le Petomane example, and have mastered the art of farting." Jason W. says, "I am a 16 year old guy that is a part of a 3-man fart on command group. We get together every Saturday night andpractice our talent to songs with a good beat. We accomplish this by getting on our hands and knees, completely relaxing, and our butt hole just opens up and air just seeps into our colons. We then get into position and let them rip. We can so far play a song called "THE EYE OF THE TIGER" (Rocky 3 theme song). We came across another group of 4 guys that can do this during the winter of 2001. We started to get together with them more frequently, and now we have a full fledged band going all on farting...We are going to try to make a CD on some songs we know, but no one wants to let us...I personally have let a fart go for about 75 seconds. On average each Saturday night we let off about 1000 farts EACH! The only problem with flatulating when we want is that now 2 of us can't help but sucking in air through our anus when we sit down." Jason has also provided the following instructions for people who would like to acquire this skill: 1) Get a pillow and a soft surface. 2) Place your ear on the pillow with your head turned sideways. 3) Put your butt up in the air, bringing your knees as close up to your head as possible. This relaxes your anal opening. 4) Once you're relaxed enough, you should feel a strange sensation...this is air traveling into your colon. 5) Through practice you will be able to do this by just sitting down. Adam reports that a student at his high school, known as "The King" could fart "God Save the Queen" by alternately inhaling and exhaling through his anus. The students refered to the inhaling process as "input." Is it possible to swallow smoke and then fart it out your anus? No, smoke consists of solid particles suspended in air. When such a mixture enters the digestive system, the solids condense on the walls and other objects in the gut, or go into suspension in liquids in the system. However, for people capable of inhaling through the anus, it is possible to smoke a cigarette with the anal opening and then blow the smoke back out. What causes the burning sensation that sometimes accompanies a fart? This is generally caused by a recent meal of hot peppers or related spices. The oils associated with these foods remain intact and active all the way through one's gastrointestinal system. If you fart in the bathtub, is the water polluted and should you refill the tub? As long as what comes out is only fart and no poop, your bath water should not be significantly polluted. Most of the gas just bubbles up and contaminates the air rather than the water. Is it true that a woman can fart out of her, shall we say, frontal opening, and if so, where does the gas come from? Yes, it is true! The gas that emerges is simply trapped air, for there is no gas production in the genitalia of a woman. The air can enter because the system is open to the outside. This highly specialized kind of fart is sometimes called a queef. This occurs especially frequently during the sex act, when air in the genitalia gets compressed and is forced out at high pressure. Can a man fart out of his genital opening? I have asked various men this question and they all deny it emphatically. However, elrondh contributed the information that under certain rare and artificially-induced circumstances, a man might pass gas through his penis. In this case, the man's bladder had been inflated for a medical procedure, the air introduced via catheter inserted through the urethra. This gas escaped during later attempts to urinate, "accompanied by a brief but sharp burning sensation." Is it possible to capture a fart in a jar and save it for later use? It should be theoretically possible to do this, but there would be lots of logistical problems. I would suggest using a plastic bag instead of a jar. You might try the following as a science fair experiment: Fart into several plastic bags and seal them carefully. Then fill several other plastic bags with ordinary air. Wait 24 hours. Then get volunteers to smell the contents of the bags to see if they can correctly identify which ones contain the farts. This should tell you if it is possible to store a fart in any useful way. Malachi and Megaera have come up with a way to capture a fart in a jar. They say to do it in the bathtub while bathing. Fill the jar with bath water and then hold it with the open end downward. Lean back in the bathtub so that your fart bubbles will emerge in front of you rather than behind you where you can't see them. Catch the bubbles in the jar, and put the lid on the jar while it's still underwater. This way, you capture a fairly pure fart uncontaminated by atmospheric air. To enjoy your captured fart to the fullest extent, make sure that your jar does not already smell like whatever was it it before, like pickles or peanut butter. Meep wrote to say that her fiancé was an expert fart collector at the age of ten. He used Kodak film canisters, and kept them on a shelf in his room. Experiments on his mother proved the efficacy of his method. Is it weird to enjoy farting? It is not unusual to enjoy farting. I believe that enjoyment of farting is a healthy attitude, since everyone has to fart. If a person is farting to the extent that it creates problems and unhappiness, then a visit to a doctor is in order. Is it common for people to enjoy smelling their own farts? I believe that it is not only common, it is universal. A person farts and then thinks, at least subconsciously, "Wow, I made that!" Can farting be considered sexy? Everything imaginable, and many things not imaginable, can be considered sexy by humans. However, the female southern pine beetle exudes a pheromone called frontalin in her flatulence that not only serves to attract males but acts as a general gathering call to both males and females of her species. Her farts are an invitation to an orgy. Unfortunately for her, her frontalin-laden farts also attract predators. What color is a fart? Farts are, alas, colorless. All of the gases that make up farts have no inherent color. But just think of how interesting it would be if farts were bright orange like nitrogen dioxide gas! It would certainly take the mystery out of who farted. Never-the-less, a high-personality gas like fart gas suggests color to people. Some people envision farts as brown, others as green or yellow. I have always thought of farts as brown, presumably because poop is brown. When someone farts in our car, that person might say, "You better not breathe through your mouth for awhile, or your teeth will turn brown." I knew a toddler who used to draw pictures of farts as yellow rectangles full of holes, like a slice of Swiss cheese. She thought of farts as yellow, and said that she knew they were rectangular because she could feel the sharp corners scraping against her on the way out! Ernie C. suggests that if farts were visible, they would look like pork rinds. Helen says, "It always seemed to me like farts were lumps of coal, black in color and irregularly spherical in shape." Do other people smell a fart better than the farter? The fart should smell just as much for the person who created it as it does for other people. However, the farter is somewhat protected by having the fart propelled away from his body in a direction opposite to his nose. Farting upwind nullifies this advantage. Why is it that when you scratch your *** through two layers of clothing (your underwear and your jeans) your fingers still stink? As pointed out by Barb F., who contributed the term to the fart thesaurus, a fart can be regarded as "aerosolized poop," which means that microscopic fragments and droplets of poop are actually distributed throughout the gaseous matrix of the fart. When delivered from the anus with some force, the components of the fart can penetrate one's clothing and these tiny particles can be trapped in the fibers of the cloth. The particles are transferred to your fingers and then your nose when you scratch and sniff. Why is it sometimes possible to taste farts? The sense of taste detects substances that are either liquid or dissolved in liquid. You can taste a fart when the fart's constituent molecules go into solution in your saliva. Do fart particles disperse in the air and float around until they hit something and then stick to it? The ultimate fate of fart particles depends on the nature of the particles. Gas molecules mostly mix into the atmosphere, although some may react chemically to form new substances. Aerosolized particles of liquid and solid poop probably do condense on surfaces. Most of these particles are polar (with a positively charged end and a negatively charged end) and are attracted to other polar substances or charged surfaces like a monitor screen. Other fart particles condense on microscopic water droplets in the air if the humidity is very high (as in a bathroom), and some particles go into solution in water. Is it possible to have bloody farts? Yes, this can happen if you are suffering from an anal fissure, a split in the wall of the colon. It can also happen to a woman who experiences a queef during her period. Why do farts seem to follow the farter? I'm sure that everyone has experienced this phenomenon, in which one delivers oneself forth of a silent but potent gaseous emission and then steps rapidly away, only to have the fart cling to one's person. Part of the reason for this annoying characteristic of farts is the turbulence that follows in the wake of a moving person. The fart "slip streams" or is actually pulled along in the farter's direction by the air currents behind the person. Another factor is that part of the fart is caught in the farter's clothing, and diffuses out slowly after the main part of the emission has dispersed. Why do farts smell so much worse in a shower than anywhere else? There are several factors. First of all, a shower is a small, enclosed space, so the fart gas is more concentrated, and the high turbidity of the air in the shower circulates the gas through the space effectively. Secondly, the high humidity and high temperature conditions in the shower enhance a person's sense of smell and taste. The farts don't actually smell worse, it's just that we can smell them better than usual. Similar conditions prevail in the bathtub. What would happen if someone farted on Venus? If Venus's surface temperature were a mere 200 to 300 degrees Fahrenheit, liquid water could exist there because of Venus's extremely high atmospheric pressure. But the temperature on Venus is almost 900 degrees Fahrenheit. Because humans are mostly water, a person would not simply emit gas on Venus, but would become gas, a whole-body fart. Venus already has a lot of sulfur compounds in its atmosphere, so a fart on Venus probably wouldn't even produce much of a smell. If you were in space without a suit, would a fart have the energy to propel you forward? Yes, a fart should propel you forward, since there is virtually no opposing force in the form of friction or gravity to counteract the force of the fart. Is it possible to freeze farts, and would they still be smelly after they are defrosted? The water vapor component of farts would freeze quite readily, but to freeze the entire fart would require high pressure and low temperature conditions such as that used to produce dry ice. The fart's composition would be unchanged by the process, and hence would still be smelly upon reversion to the gaseous state. Is it possible for a fart to rip your underwear? This is unlikely, because most underwear is made of material with a fairly high tensile strength, meaning that it can endure a certain level of extensional stress without brittle failure. Furthermore, the porous nature of underwear fabrics allows much of the fart's force to pass through the spaces rather than to stress the fabric. Where does the word "fart" come from? According to Eric Partridge in his excellent book of word origins (Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English), our word fart comes from the Old English word feortan, presumably of echoic origin, meaning that the word was chosen to sound like the object named. When it is cold outside and you fart, can you see it like you can see your breath? Now, that's an interesting idea! My guess would be yes, since farts are nice and moist like our breath, but this is one question that I'm not in a position to answer. I live in the tropics, and it never gets cold here. Several people have tried the experiment and have written to tell me the results. Most people said that they could indeed see their farts, but one person said that he couldn't see it even with his pants off. Here is what anywhere32 reported: "In the boys' locker room after morning water polo practice it was cold out and one of the players only had on his speedo and let out a fart. About four of us saw it and couldn't contain our laughter for the rest of the day." John of the UK said, "Farts expelled in cold air leave what can only be described as a long bushy tail. This is quite funny waiting on a train station platform on a cold dark frosty morning. A person will move away from everyone to a safe distance, and then release a long quiet fart, only to have a sudden and dramatic long bushy white tail coming from their anus; it goes down a little way and slowly curves up ending in a point, just like a dogs tail!" What are some other words for fart? The word "fart" is both a noun (referring to the substance and the sound), and a verb (referring to the act of farting). i seriously have no idea how this was posted as r & s!!!! but i hope u enjoy it as wierd as it is! i just copied and pasted it!! i thought it was funny

Does medical miracle exist, is this possible? Right knee injury: the MRI scan clearly states complete rupture of the anterior cruciate, posterior cruciate and lateral collateral ligaments, and grade II rupture of the medial collateral, and torn cartilage. The doctors saying I need immediate surgery, I am unable to move the leg and I need a lot of pain killers. Well, I do not feel that much pain, I can walk, put my whole weight on the injured leg, can move the leg back/forth/left/right. What is going on? A miracle??

Can anyone help me understand my MRI results? Hi - I got my results today from my MRI scan and I was wondering if anyone could help me interpret them. 3 months ago, while playing soccer I injured my left knee. The injury did not seem a big deal to me because I was able to finish the game with a small discomfort in the knee. The next day the pain got worst so I gave myself a 2 week break from all sport activities. In about 2 weeks I daily began to play volleyball for my high school. However I still felt a small pain in my knee. So I decided to see a doctor, he send me for an MRI test. Now I got my MRI results and they don’t look good to me and the doctor said that I will probably need an arthroscopic surgery. This news shocked me because it is going to ruin my volleyball season. The doctor never clarified me in detail what's wrong with my knee. So here are the results: 1.Kissing bone contusion involving medial femoral condyle and medial tibial plateau. Underlying nondisplaced noncomminuted linear fracture involving medial tibial plateau. 2.Tear involving posterior horn of the medial meniscus. 3.Small suprapatellar joint effusion. 4.Small ganglion cyst posterior to the PCL.

What are you guys opinion? I injured myself playin basketball. I went to da doctor and he told me to get an MRI. After he examined the MRI this is what he found 1)Finding suspicious for small radial tears involving the posterior horn and body of the lateral meniscus 2) Minimal or subtle marrow edema?contusion to the posterior aspect of the lateral tibial plateau. No macrofracture 3)Mild lateral subluxation of the patella compatible with a mild tracking abnormality This is what the MRI said last july. He told me to walk on crutches for two weeks for that contusion part, and that worked. He also told me to go see an orthopedic surgeon for the meniscus part, but i didnt. I went through football and basketball season without that much pain from my knee(except if i try to run full speed i limp a lil bit). Then the day after basketball season it started to hurt again, this time it hurted for me to walk alot. I went to the doctor this past friday and he told me once again to go to the surgeon and i am this friday. He really believes that my meniscus is slightly tore and even showed me the MRI and it backed him up. So wat i wanna know is if i have the surgery where they just take the torn part of the meniscus out, how long until i will be able to play sports. And will i miss any school days? And what is your impression on the MRI results 1) 2)3).

Small horizontal Intrameniscal tear. Pleas help!!!!!!!!!!!? I love to play basketball and have been working out to improve my jumping ability and get into shape. I started to have a sharp pain in my knee when I jumped my hardest. I got an MRI and it said that I had a small joint effusion. It also said I had an HORIZONTAL INTRAMENISCAL GRADE I ABNORMALITY SEEN IN THE POSTERIOR BODY OF THE MEDIAL MENISCUS.. It says this could concievably represent a small intrameniscal tear. it also says no clear communication is seen with the articular surface. The doctor said it was a grade I. He then gave me a cortisone shot and said give it twoo wekks and if the pain is still there come back. I am not satisfied with it. What else should i be doing. I want to squat and hoop. Please give me some info.

why does my hamstring area hurt? greetings, I seem to have injured the posterior medial (back inner) thigh region. I have no idea how. it may have happened in my sleep. it does not hurt to walk, or even jog on it. however, if I extend my leg straight and back, like stepping up on something, or jumping, I get a very sharp pain. it started a couple days ago, but I think it happened in my sleep because there was nothing to trigger it. the pain is just above my knee. i used to do martial arts, and would over stretch/pull muscles sometimes when I kicked too high, but this does not feel like that. however, I did a roundhouse kick today and the pain brought me to the ground. it does not hurt to flex my leg muscles, just when I extend really straight (beyond normal walking). it is not red, swollen, or warm to the touch. pushing on the area cases little or no pain. what could this be? some torn connective tissue? maybe a slightly torn muscle? it doesn't ache, just a sharp pain when stretched

Can you fuction on OxyContin? I have had two knee surgeries in 2 months for PVNS (one open posterior tumor removal and synevectomy and one anterior arthoscopic synevectomy) and have been on a handful of different pain meds for my condition for the past 4 months. I was on oxycodone 5-500mg after my first surgery and that has been the strongest so far. After this 2nd surgery they put me on Vicodin which isnt working at all to manage the pain and they put me on OxyContin 10 mg (one every 12 hours) today. Can I function on this? I mean; do people work and all on this b/c they have me on it for at least a month to see if it helps relieve the pain. It is making me really tired and goofy today but I'm thinking that is normal just b/c its the first day of it. I just want to get back to my normal daily life and not have pain rule every aspect of my life! Thanks! I"m not worried at all about getting addicted to the pain meds. I have never been addicted to ANYTHING. I hate taking pain meds; I would never want to take them recreationally. I just wanted to know if I can work while I take them.

How long before you can run after meniscus surgery? I am debating having surgery for a torn meniscus. (Superiorly surfacing oblique tear in the posterior horn of the medial mensicus, to be exact.) I can run and do most things pain free, but I have a lot of pain in the back of my knee with deep flexion. I cannot squat, sit "indian style," or cross my left ankle over my right knee. It makes simple things like squatting down to tie my son's shoe or clipping my toenails difficult. I did not have the pain until I started my pt/recovery for ACL reconstruction in the same knee. I have had two major surgeries in the last 18mo. I am ok with surgery, but I do not want to go back to square one with my running AGAIN! I am so over recovering from surgery and going to physical therapy...LOL! 1) How long before I can start running again if I have a miniscectomy? 2) Is there a risk in putting off the surgery? Thanks in advance!

pericardial cyst and subpleural bulla? had knee surgery 1/07 - about a week later, went to ER with pains in chest - had workup, including CT pulmonary angiography which was negative for pulmonary embolism but showed a "large bulla in left upper lobe"- continued having chest pains doc later said I had pneumonia or chest cold, took many months before I felt a bit better In 11/07, had very sharp stabbing pain on left side went to ER - was sent home after being on ekg and monitor. a few days later went back to ER - had another CT pulmonary angiography and other tests and was sent home fast forward, I am still having various symptoms and was just reviewing my medical records - the second angiography states, "again seen is a subpleural bulla in the posterior...left lower lobe. A small bulla is also seen in the same location of right lower lobe - there is a pericardial cyst on the right measuring 2.9 cm which is without significant change" The first test didn't mention the second bulla or the cyst - so to me, that is a change. Could these be causing my symptoms of pain in my side, random occasional chest pains, headaches, pain in left arm and left leg? I will certainly be talking to my doc on Monday - maybe these are considered minor findings which is why they were not addressed to me?

cervical spine bulging disc? Serious answers only plz I'm worried! I have been having physio for 5mths following a high velocity RTA 6mths ago. Wasn't x rayed at time of accident but physio ordered x ray of c spine (about 6 wks later )which showed 'posterior displacement of c4 in relation to c5' & 'marked loss of height of c4/c5' & some loss of height in relation to c6/c7, 'no boney trauma'. Symptoms failed to improve and include severe jaw,ear,head & eye pain & numbness & tingling in 3rd & 4th finger. More recently have developed giddiness, unsteady gait (people think I'm drunk!) and urgency of urination, also my knee give way but don't know if these are connected. GP ordered recent MRI scan which showed a bulging disc at C2 and I'm seeing a neurourgeon Friday. Is this serious?? Would appreciate an opinion from somebody who may know.(I'm a 51yr old female)

Help with for a physiology? I am a 50 year old man and i have pain in the calf muscles of both my legs when i go for walks. the pain would subside when i rest but the pain is insidious in onset and has occurred even more frequently. I smoke 3 packs of cigarettes a day for over 30 years now. At the visit to the doctor they said that i was normal except for an absence of "dorsalis pedis" and "posterior tibial" pulses in both feet. Also from X-rays it shows that i have arterial calcification of lower leg arteries and obstruction of arteries above my knees. Please help. i am very scared for my life.

I Guess You Could Call It Leg Pain? This has been going on for quite a few months and I really don't know what's wrong with my leg. I tried going to a few doctors, including a chiropractor, but they haven't figured it out. I've also had an xray that showed nothing. At first I thought it was my hip, but it's not. I'm unable to sit up and put my left leg straight out in front of me. I can with my right, just not the left without screaming. I also can't lay on my back and, with my leg straight, raise my foot up in the air more than about 45 degrees. It also hurts to do normal every day activities-it even hurts sitting here typing (just not as much as if I was to actually do something). If you were to look at my leg from the posterior view the pain goes down my left side of the back of my leg-mostly in the middle of the leg and below the hip socket area. Sometimes it will hurt above the back of my knee on the left side of my leg as well. I haven't been able to exercise in a long time because of this which has caused me to gain 40lbs-I used to be in good shape! It's really driving me crazy not being able to do anything! Do any of you have any ideas as to what it is? Thank you.

I Guess You Could Call It Leg Pain? This has been going on for quite a few months and I really don't know what's wrong with my leg. I tried going to a few doctors, including a chiropractor, but they haven't figured it out. I've also had an xray that showed nothing. At first I thought it was my hip, but it's not. I'm unable to sit up and put my left leg straight out in front of me. I can with my right, just not the left without screaming. I also can't lay on my back and, with my leg straight, raise my foot up in the air more than about 45 degrees. It also hurts to do normal every day activities-it even hurts sitting here typing (just not as much as if I was to actually do something). If you were to look at my leg from the posterior view the pain goes down my left side of the back of my leg-mostly in the middle of the leg and below the hip socket area. Sometimes it will hurt above the back of my knee on the left side of my leg as well. I haven't been able to exercise in a long time because of this which has caused me to gain 40lbs-I used to be in good shape! It's really driving me crazy not being able to do anything! Do any of you have any ideas as to what it is? Thank you.

Sports Medicine answer key? 1. The hip is such a stable joint because a. the acetabulum is very deep b. the hip socket is covered by thick ligaments c. many strong muscles cover the hip joint d. all of the above 2. The difference between sprains and strains of the lumbar region is that a. the pain from a sprain tends to be localized, whereas the pain from a muscle strain tends to move the length of the muscle, especially when the athlete tries to use the muscle while bending b. the pain from a strain tends to be localized, whereas the pain from a sprain tends to move the length of the muscle, especially when the athlete tries to use the muscle while bending c. There is no difference. 3. The visible portion of a tooth is called the a. crown b. neck c. root d. socket 4. The layers of cartilage that surround the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disk is called the a. annulus fibrosus b. annulus pulposus c. nucleus fibrosis d. body of the intervertebral disk 5. The most posterior process of the vertebra is the a. spinous process b. transverse process c. body of the vertebra d. nucleus pulposus 6. How many cervical vertebrae does an athlete have? a. 5 b. 7 c. 12 d. 4 7. The segment of the spine that is attached to the ribs is called the a. cervical spine b. thoracic spine c. lumbar spine d. sacrum 8. Located on the pelvis, this is the socket that the head of the femur articulates with. a. sacrum b. iliac crest c. acetabulum d. glenoid fossa 9. The formation of bone tissue within the muscle is called a. slipped capital femoral epiphysis b. Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease c. Osgood-Schlatter disorder d. myositis ossificans 10. A dislocated hip will often result in ________ of the leg. a. adduction b. external rotation c. internal rotation d. extension 11. Which of the following is NOT a lateral ankle ligament? a. anterior talofibular ligament b. calcaneofibular ligament c. deltoid ligament d. a and b 12. Which of the following muscles or muscle groups is most likely to be strained during activity because it functions at two joints? a. hamstrings b. rectus femoris c. gluteus maximus d. a and c e. a and b 13. If an athlete suffers a disk bulge, it most typically bulges which direction? a. anteriorly b. laterally c. posteriorly d. none of the above 14. A softening or wearing away of articular cartilage at the back of the patella is known as a. patella dislocation b. Osgood-Schlatter disorder c. chondromalacia d. meniscectomy 15. A complete tear of this ligament usually requires surgical reconstruction. a. anterior cruciate ligament b. posterior cruciate ligament c. medial collateral ligament d. lateral collateral ligament 16. A protective knee brace applied to the lateral aspect of the knee is designed to protect which of the following ligaments? a. anterior cruciate ligament b. posterior cruciate ligament c. medial collateral ligament d. lateral collateral ligament 17. The vastus medialis is included in which of the following muscle groups? a. adductor b. abductor c. quadriceps d. hamstrings 18. Which of the following muscle groups flexes the knee? a. adductor b. abductor c. quadriceps d. hamstrings 19. Which of the following ligaments is most commonly injured as a result of a blow to the lateral aspect of the knee? a. anterior cruciate ligament b. posterior cruciate ligament c. medial collateral ligament d. lateral collateral ligament 20. Which of the following ligaments prevents the tibia from moving forward on the femur? a. anterior cruciate ligament b. posterior cruciate ligament c. medial collateral ligament d. lateral collateral ligament 21. When the pressure of the anterior compartment of the lower leg increases, it is called a. anterior compression syndrome b. medial tibial stress syndrome c. anterior compartment syndrome d. shinsplints 22. Which of the following is commonly used to detect a stress fracture of the foot? a. X ray b. bone scan c. magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) d. electrical muscle stimulation e. none of the above 23. An avulsion fracture of the fifth metatarsal is called a a. epiphyseal injury b. Smith fracture c. Jones fracture d. shinsplint 24. Which of the following is considered a principle or quality of leadership? a. integrity b. vision c. competence d. inspiration e. all of the above 25. Which mechanism of injury is the most common for causing ankle sprains? a. excessive eversion b. extension c. excessive inversion d. flexion 26. What term is given when there is a disruption of blood flow of the head of the femur? a. slipped capital femoral epiphysis b. Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease c. Osgood-Schlatter disorder d. none of the above 27. The brain is attached to the spinal cord by the a. cerebellum b. occipital lobe c. brain stem d. temporal lobe 28. The eardrum is also known as the a. auditory canal

MRI interpretation help? Hi! I have been struggling with patella femoral syndrome for over 10 yrs (I'm 22 now) I was a catcher in softball in my teens but subsequently quit due to overwhelming pain. I have custom orthotics (I am flat footed), went through traditional PT with focus on quad (specifically VMO), hib adductor and abductor strengthening, and IT band rolling as well as postural PT which focused on readjusting any pelvis instability. Anyway, both knees cause me similar amounts of pain so for my MRI a knee (the left) was randomly selected. The result is below: Medial meniscus: There is a small amount of intrasubstance degeneration of the posterior horn, with no tears identified. Lateral meniscus: The anterior horn of the lateral meniscus is slightly elevated off of the tibial plateau, with adjacent scarring of Hoffa's fat pad. This is of unclear significance. I get that there was no tear located, but what does the other stuff mean? Any info would be greatly appreciated...thanks!! oh these are the conclusions stated: Slight elevation of the anterior horn lateral meniscus from the tibial plateau

Do i have to undergo arthroscopy? I met with an accident and hurt my right knee 4 and half months ago and with the findings of M.R.I, it came to my knowledge that there is : -bony contusion at articular surface of tibial plataue -partial thickness anterior cruciate ligament tear with minimal joint effusion -posterior horn of medial meniscus tear (grade III) The orthopedic suggested arthroscopy.I took a 2nd opinion, the second doctor(specialist in sports medicine) said that the operation could be avoided. Today I can walk with ease, it doesn't pain at all, but there is lot of swelling. but still, few people are saying, if a ligament breaks, there is no other option but operation. I'm confused. I am looking for a right diagnosis. Please guide me

advice on PCL tear in knee~ how to protect it when i sleep, sit, walk, stand? roller derby injury june 20th. yes i know it's a rough sport but a girl pushed me from behind very hard (illegal). flew up in the air and landed dead on my knee. i didn't cry. hurt very bad. played the rest of the bout after a rest. i've been doing the PRICE thing every day... went to the doctor. took her advice. waited 3 weeks to see if it would be better. it was better but not completely. played another bout~did not reinjure it. skating seems to be strengthening it. reading up on pt exercises.. i've been avoiding walking and standing as much as i can. just recently had to work and was walking for 4 hours straight~ hurt. since then, this weekend, it's been hurting. pain going up and down the leg. What positions do i take when sleeping/resting. i don't know if i should keep it straight, i'm scared of tearing it again. i don't know how to elevate it~ bent or straight leg. and when i sit i don't know if i'm aggravating it by putting pressure on my thigh. :( very uncomfortable. I had an mri and the diagnosis is isolated posterior cruciate tear. I'm going to an ortho dr. on the 12th. it's becoming uncomfortable and i don't know what to do to protect and strenghten. ouch. :( never had an injury after years of sports in hs and college playing rugby, basketball... thank u

sharp pains and aching knees... sore when playing football...? aorund 3 years ago, I had a knee problem (right) and went to see my football clubs physio. was never diagnosed but a few different exercises cured it after a while. Then, around a year ago, I had another problem with my right knee (after landing and twisting knee playing Football). I went to see the doctor and he forwarded me on to a physio who said it was "Posterior Cruciate Ligament damage". I was out of action for a few months and when I came back it seemed fine. Then, last weekend, I was playing Football again and I had similar pains in my left knee. I continued playing the match but since then, my left knee has been so sore. Whenever I extend my leg, I get sharp, shooting pains through my knee for around 30 seconds and then it aches for about 3/4 minutes. Everytime I have had knee trouble, it has been on the top and the inside of my kneecaps. I'm putting it down to the twisting and turning involved with playing Football..., but what do you guys think? By the way, I am 20 years old and I currently play Football at a fairly high standard which involves training once or twice a week and playing a match once or twice a week.

Knee pain, MRI results, anyone help in layman's terms please.? Hi, I am a 56 year old female who has had a knee injury for over a year, and longstanding pain in left knee. NOt sure of exact injury or date, as I fell in to the bathtub, ( at night and narrow bathroom) and another time slipped on wet grass falling on my knees. I also have a bad back,( herniated disks at L4-L5, and bulging disks, L2-L3, L3-L4, and other things going on with back, and hip pain as well. My knee pain has been constant and the Methadone I take for my back, does nothing for the knee pain. I posted on a health site and have not been able to get anyone to interpret my MRI results. I have to wait for a referral to see the Orthopedic DR. and would like to get an idea of what the MRI means in the meantime. Please serious only, no joking. Findings. The anterior Cruciate ligament is diminutive. The proximal femoral attachment is NOT WELL SEEN ? The distal tibial attachment appears taut and normal. Posterior cruciate , quadriceps tendon and patellar ligaments are intact. Collateral ligaments are intact. There is some Globular signal in posterior horn of medial meniscus but it does not meet strict MRI criteria for a tear. The lateral meniscus is intact. The patella s appropriately situated. There is some articular thinning along the medial patellar facet but no focal osteochrondral defects are noted. There is no significant joint effusion, but a small amount of suprapatellar bursal fluid is noted. Bone marrow signal characteristic show an increase in the bone marrow in the medial femoral condyle and medial tibial plateau with a corresponding decreased T1 signal. This suggests that they are healing bone contusions. Impressions: Bone marrow abnormality within the medial femoral condyle and medial tibial plateau suggest that there is healing bone contusions.These type of contusions can be associated with anterior cruciate ligament tears. The patient likely did have a tear from the femoral attachment that has re-adhered.There is some globular signal in the posterior horn of the medial meniscus but there is no associated meniscal tear identified. ( Please don't tell me that it looks like I had a ligament tear, that is stated in the report, what does the rest say or mean?What can I expect when I see the Orthopedic Dr. as far as treatment. Remember, I have had this pain for over a year now. Thank you for any answers you can give me.

L5/S1 dgenerative posterior disc protrusion? Im 29 years im working in customer service field (Call Centers Industry) so i stay at my office 8 hours and transportation 3 hours i was very sportive man but since i was working 2004 i stopped playing sport and i start to have porblems at my low back i had about 7 years of low back problems sometimes pain is too much with spasm sometimes not about 1 and half year i start to have problem in neck i cant move sometimes my neck all way to left or right,when i do it i feel little sounds of bones,also from 2 month i have strong pain in left knee but after i took some drug i feel better rarely to have pain. Finally one of doctor here in Egypt let me did MRI at 8-Aug-2009 and the opinion of doctor of the MRI was in briefly L5/S1 dgenerative posterior disc protrusion ????!!!! doctor only give drug and say nothing My question is there is any way to heal my degenerated disc to stop continue of degenerated with drug medicine,physical therapy,...... ???!!! Sorry for my bad english and for long thread i only want to do my best to have not bad future with my back Thanks in advance HAVE A GREAT AND HAPPY DAY AND LESS PAIN to all

How many months should i wait before playing football after an arthroscopic surgery ? I've been asked to undergo at arthroscopic surgery for my torn anterior cruciate ligament .My MRI report is as follows.. - Grade II signal in posterior horn of medial meniscus . -incomplete tear of the anterior cruciate ligament. -Bony contusions in the lateral femoral condyle . What exactly is wrong with my knee ??? Why do I get this pain in my calf every time i walk ??? PS : I really want to play again :(

Knee MRI results back, can someone help me understand it? I had an injury back in May. I was helping my mom take flowers out of the trunk and I twisted oddly or something. I heard a loud crack and then fell to the ground screaming. It was the worst pain I had ever felt. It was EXTREMELY swollen, and I was on crutches for a month. Now I can walk well and even jog a little bit. But it's still painful at times. I got an MRI done a few weeks ago and just got the results. As my doctor and physiotherapist suggested, my meniscus is torn(my medial meniscus, if you're wondering). On the result sheet, they assessed other things, such as my ligaments, which were fine, and my 'patella and bony structures.' This was the part I didn't understand. It said: "There is an osteochondral impaction injury noted along the outer aspect of the weight-bearing portion of the lateral femoral condyle with subcortical bone marow edema and cortical irregularity. Also, there is a focal area of bone marrow edema along the distal metaphysis of the left femur posteriorly adjacent to the posterior aspect of the epiphyseal plate with corresponding bone marrow edema at the posterior aspect of the epiphysis as well raising the possibility of an undisplaced fracture here. No significant joint effusion is demonstrated. There is some fluid signal noted in the intercondylar notch anterior to the distal aspect of the anterior cruciate ligament. No significant popliteal cyst. No chondromalacia patella. A small amount of fluid signal is noted in the intercondylar notch posteriorly as well. This could represent a small ganglion cyst." Being a 14 year old, I don't understand this that well. I know that edema mean swelling, but I don't understand anything else. Is it anything important? What, basically, does it mean? How did this happen? Are they minor injuries that happened at the time of the impact? I'm going over this with my physiotherapist in a week, but I'm quite an impatient person, and I would like to know, basically, what this means by then. Thank you :)

Is this a meniscal tear? If a person complains of pain in the posterior medial part of the knee and an MRI shows "mild partial tearing/degeneration posterior horn of medial meniscus", how is that not consistent with a tear? I am having surgery in 2 days and am hearing different things from different doctors and I don't know what to do? Does the MRI report say that there is a tear due to degeneration, a tear + degeneration, or inconclusive?Workers comp doc says it is degenerative tear and not a tear due to injury. I am 44 yrs old. Thanks

Can you help with this MRI report for meniscal tear? If a person complains of pain in the posterior medial part of the knee and an MRI shows "mild partial tearing/degeneration posterior horn of medial meniscus", how is that not consistent with a tear? I am having surgery in 2 days and am hearing different things from different doctors and I don't know what to do? Well I had a second opinion that's why I have 2 conflicting answers...and then a third opinion since it is work related (I don't trust this doctor since he was chosen by workers comp insurance) So the workers comp doc says it is degeneration and not due to injury. If the MRI says tear/degeneration, does that mean it is degenerative or is it inconclusive? I am 44 yrs old O is it both a tear due to injury and degeneration?

Im 20.karate student. Hd injury in right knee. MRI shows tears in anterior and posterior meniscus.? Can I continue learning Karate after my surgery... can you please give me the procedure in the arthroscopic surgery for knee I am so worried Have pain walking for long period.Will I be cured completely... Please help....

Injury in my Right knee Meniscus. Is it Curable by Ayurveda.? Im 20.B Tech student. Had injury in right knee. MRI shows tears in anterior and posterior horns of meniscus. Will this tear be cured by AYURVEDA. Is there any cases before this being cured by Ayurveda. I am learning Karate. Also I am a Football player.Can I continue my activities. I am so worried. Have pain walking for long period.Will I be cured completely... Please give Expert Opinion....

Lower back pain radiating towards posterior of thigh and knee?what to do?

My right knee hurts and my tibialis posterior is since two weeks swollen and I can't play football !!!!!!!!!!!? What to do I would love an answer from everyone....Thanks in advance....My knee hurts when I press the upper side of my patella.....and when I try to have all the body weight in the left knee it is OK......when I try to do it with the right one.......I can only move my body a few cm down.....because then my knee starts to feel pain....

What are possible causes of knee discomfort? 2 years ago I had a fall which resulted in a knee sprain and torn hamstring. Snce then I have had ongoing problems with this leg. I have had a feeling that my stride has been awkward and have experienced pain in the posterior and medial part of my knee. About a year ago I began seeing an ortopedist. An MRI showed partial tear/degeneration of medial meniscus and some mild arthritic changes. He ruled out that the tear was a "true" tear. Cortisone shot did not help and he suggested surgery to see if something else was going on. I sought a second opinion. The second orthopedist said that it was a tear. I specifically asked him if it could be a degenerative tear and he dismissed this as a possibility. So I had surgery with the second ortho and 2 months later nothing has changed. At my post-op appt I again asked about the tear being degenerative and again he dismissed this possibility. I asked the hospital for a copy of my records since the injury was at work and worker's comp would not cover it and I was considering fighting their decision. In the hospital records the doctor said that I had a degenerative tear. I am furious with this doctor and believe that he lied to me. Now he tells me after a year of visits, 2 MRIs, couple of x-rays etc that it must be arthirtis that is causing my pain. I still think that this is related to the fall. Maybe it is arthritis that is causing the pain but it could be that something is aggravating the arthritis. I do not trust this doctor and am not so pleased with the first one either but I want to be sure that nothing is being missed before I resign myself to a life of arthritic pain. This all sucks very much, I am 44 years old and am very active. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

would second MRI reveal anything different? I have chronic knee pain for last few months. I had an MRI done which said "grade 2 signal alteration in posterior horm of medial meniscus". Everything else was fine. The doc ordered physiotherapy but after 2 months of it, not much relief yet. Incidently, when I did the MRI I did NOT have a lot of pain. Pain has increased a bit after that. So would a second MRI after a span of 2 months really a worthwhile investment ? Will it show anything different ? The MRI technician had asked me Qs such as which part hurt more etc, which I didn't answer very confidently because at that time I was feeling better. So I am not sure if they botched up my MRI. It costs a lot, so want to know if it really will help to do a second MRI. Thanks.

Is this a meniscal tear? If a person complains of pain in the posterior medial part of the knee and an MRI shows "mild partial tearing/degeneration posterior horn of medial meniscus", how is that not consistent with a tear? I am having surgery in 2 days and am hearing different things from different doctors and I don't know what to do? Does the MRI report say that there is a tear due to degeneration, a tear + degeneration, or inconclusive?Workers comp doc says it is degenerative tear and not a tear due to injury. I am 44 yrs old. Thanks Yes, I had a second opinion, plus the workers comp doc, so that's 3 doctors and they have not been very consistent in their assessment. this is why I am confused. This is a 2 year old nagging injury taht I am sick of dealing with. I doubt it will get better on its own at this point.

Would surgery resolve the L3-L4 disk problems I am experiencing? I had major back surgery two and ahalf years ago with fusion of L4 – L5 and L5 – S1, since the surgery, I continue to have numbness in my lower left leg and four toes in my left foot, with pain shooting into my toes. The last sixteen to seventeen months, I start experiencing the same symptoms in my right leg and foot. I have an abnormal knee jerk, periodic with pain in front of both right and left leg between thigh and knee...period tingling or numbness in right and left toes and ball of my foot with stabbing or shooting pain in four out of five toes, stabbing or shooting pain in both lower legs. With lower back pain. Between June 2009 and January 2010, my back and leg problems has caused me to fall six time, twice down the steps and four times while walking on level flooring. My legs often keep me up at night traveling from bed to bed or sofa to safe trying to find a place to get conformable so I can sleep. The longer I walk the more pain I experience. The longer I stand on my feet the more pain I experience. If I set to for long periods of time pain start shooting into my toes. The pain is keeping me from working and performing normal day to day functions. Would surgery resolve my problems or should I try something else? I attached a copy of my Myelogram CT with findings Exam: Lumbar Myelogram: History: Bilateral leg and foot numbness. Prior lumbar fusion in 2007 Technique: Following explanation of the procedure to the patient, and obtaining informed consent, a lumbar puncture was performed under sterile conditions at L1-L2 level. Clear spinal fluid was obtained. 10cc of Isovue-M-200 was administered intrathecally. Findings: Posterior fusion is present from L4 through S1. Position of plates and pedicle screws appear satisfactory. Intradiscal material at L4-L5 and L5-S1 appears well positioned. There is evidence of mild central stenotic changes at the L2-L3 and L3-L4 levels with no clear-cut root encroachment at any level which would suggest a disc herniation. Lateral films were obtained with flexion and extension and demonstrate minimal anterolisthesis at the L3-L4 level which is slightly accentuated with flexion. The conus and lower thoracic cord appears normal. Impression: 1. Post fusion from L4 through S1. 2. No significant stenosis or suggestion of recurrent disc herniation at the postoperative levels. 3. Mild anterolisthesis at L3-L4 slightly accentuated with flexion. 4. Mild stenosis at L2-L3 and L3-L4 5. Postmyelogram CT will follow, and be reported separately. EXAM: Post Myelogram CT of Lumbar Spine: Technique: High-resolution CT performed with multichannel helical acquisition and multiplanar reformats, following lumbar myelogram. Findings: A posterior fusion is present from L4 through S1. Position of plates and pedicle screws is good. Osseous fusion appears solid bilaterally. There are no abnormalities seen at T12-L1 or L1-L2 At L2-L3 and L3-L4, there is moderate central and biforaminal stenosis from short pedicles and hypertrophy of facet. No acute appearing disk herniation seen. At L3-L4, there is also air within both facet joints consistent with degenerative facet changes. At L4-L5, there is a small right paracentral disc bulge slightly distorting the thecal sac but not extending into the foramen or causing definite root compression. At L5-S1 there is a small broad-base central disc protrusion without significant compression of the thecal sac or the nerve roots. Interdiscal space material at the L4-L5 and L5-S1 level appears well-positioned Impression: 1. Posterior fusion from L4 through S1 with good position of hardware and solid-appearing osseous fusion. 2. Moderate central and biforaminal stenosis at the L2-L3 and L3-L4 levels primarily due to hypertrophied facet and short pedicles. 3. Small right paracentral disc protrusion at L4-L5 not causing definite root compression

Doc says ankle sprain, but could there be a fracture? I'm 25. 2 weeks ago I fell down some stairs both twisting my ankle inward and hitting the outside of the ankle hard against the banister. Went to the ER and xrays of ankle from one hour after the incident were negative. Followed up with PMD 2 days later who said it was sprained but noticed swelling in my toe and got xrays of the foot (which were negative). It's been two weeks. I've been off work resting, used crutches for 4 days, icing, elevating, and wrapping ankle when up and about. Toe area is fine now but this constant aching pain is continuing on the outside lateral/posterior side of ankle. Worse when walking. Also still a little swollen, bruised, and very tender to touch (even a blanket hurst sometimes). Pain wakes me up at night and is sometimes sharp radiating towards my knee or down the outside of my foot. Taking NSAIDS every 6 hours with some but not much relief. Went back to PMD today and she said it should've healed by now and she doesn't know why a sprain is lasting so long. I asked for more xrays since the first ones were done right after the injury and while my ankle was swollen. She said no xrays necessary, ordered PT, and sent me on my way. Due to my HMO I can't go see an ortho without her approval (switching to PPO in January). Pain gets so intense I think about going to ER again. How many weeks do I need to wait after the injury before I MAKE my PMD give me the referral or go to the ER? I've heard fractures sometimes don't show up for a couple weeks and that ERs can miss fractures frequently? I want this to heal properly so I don't have issues later and yet my PMD just doesn't want to listen to me.

Any ideas what's wrong with my knee? Ok of late i've been experiencing some pain in my left knee, it seemed to start when i was swimming (breaststroke, and worse when attempting to kick with my knees closer together to get my legs used to that kind of propulsive kick), anyway i would say i probably aggravated it more by continuing to swim. anatomically & physiologically -> knee pain occurs more so during activities involving femoral external rotation and knee extension (from an internally rotated and fully flexed position +tibial ER). the pain does occur most of the time it's just worse when i am swimming. the pain is fairly poorly localized, but generally in the joint line (between femur & tibia) posterior to the knee cap and more lateral than medial. my knee cap is in it's normal place although may be maltracking. the joint clicks a little when flexed & extended but only when there is some pressure on the patella. other less related info: my right hip occasionally feels like it pops out of the socket, this is not painful and just makes walking awkward for a second until it pops back in then its normal again. my right ankle hurts slightly during butterfly, more so with fins on but i think this may just be because i have reduced dorsiflexion, and a good range of plantarflexion so the kick itself is putting too much force on the joint is starting to push the joint to the limit of what is already a capsular end range. P.S. sorry there's so much info, just figured the more the better that's possible and makes sense. one day i was getting up from sitting on the floor and happened to kneel on the wrong part on my knee which felt like it sort of pinched the knee and i was unable to fully extend my leg for a while (although i was already experiencing pain while swimming before that occured). Also recently my knee was flexed and when I when I extended it, it felt like there was an airbubble or something in my knee. oh and the pain is not like constant agony or anything, i would've already been to a doctor for that it's just slight and its on and off.

Teens: Maybe you can help me? Any tips on how to help recovery? I tore my posterior cruciate knee ligament yesterday playing football. The doctor strapped me up with a knee brace, and told me the general things. Keeping it up high, brace off at night, ice pack etc. I've to go back next week for more examination and for them to decide whether or not it will need surgery. Is there anything else I can do to help prevent this, or is it just down to nature? I asked this last night in both injuries and pain management but only got 1 answer between the 2 so thought I'd see if anyone here has any tips. Thanks =) Yeah if surgery is required I will definately go through with it as I've had other ops before and I cope fine but just checking if there's any way to prevent it =)

I have arthroscopic surgery scheduled on my right knee tomorrow. Opinions appreciated!? I am 53 and tore my meniscus (small complex tear of posterior horn of medial meniscus) presumably after starting a workout regime including sprinting about 9 weeks ago. The right leg was hurting for about 7 weeks after that, than the pain started to lessen to the point where it is gone or virtually gone after nine weeks. And now I have surgery tomorrow (Friday, April 16)! The kicker is that now my left knee is the one that hurts (maybe by compensating for the right knee the past weeks?). So am wondering if I should go through with the surgery, and even if still needed if I should have an MRI on the left knee and if needed have arthroscopic surgery on both knees at that same time? Also anesthesia is general without intubation. Anyone know why no intubation? Does that mean no chance of stopping breathing? Advice on any or all issues greatly appreciated!!

Pain in my left knee, but MRI shows no problems at all (PLEASE help)? I really dont know what to do. I have had this pain for about 5 months now and have not done ANY physical activity for about 4 months Im not even sure how i did whatever is causing my pain I got my mri done last week and now the MRI shows my knee is "essentially normal" I have a ton of LATERAL and slight outer-POSTERIOR pain in my knee when i hit rock bottom of squats and when i jump I have ANTERIOR pain when stand, walk and run When my doc rotates my knee it clicks and pops loudly and is followed by pain. By rotate i mean he has me lie on my back, then he has me bend my leg to about 45 degrees, then he grabs my ankle, holds my knee in place, ad then moves ankle left to right. Whenever he does this, there is a very loud click and some pain in the outer portion of my knee. He thinks it may be the LCL or even MCL, but isnt sure He wants to go in arthroscopically, but i dont really have the cash to spare. He also mentioned Physical therapy, but i dont really have money for that either Does anyone have any idea what this could be? Is there anything i can do on my own to heal this dumb problem? thanks in advance I should also mention that i have horrible lower back pain on my right side My chiro says my hips are rotated. Im not sure if this has anything to do with my injury but just throwing it out there. And secondly i should say that i do hip and ankle mobility work, along with stretching and foam rolling EVERY morning, and have been doing so for a few months. I get adjusted once a week as well lol forgot to say that i also have pain above the knee cap

Can you help figure out my MRI results of my right knee? Findings: There is a tiny intrasubstance tear towards the meniscocapsular junction posteromedial aspect posterior horn medial meniscus right knee; anterior horn medially and both the anterior and posterior horns laterally are intact. There is stretch strain injury of the anterior cruciate ligament; diffuse indistinctness with intrasubstance limited disruption; the region of involvement is approximately the proximal-to-mid one-thirds to the insertion surrounding mild edema and limited joint fluid primarily; the intercondylar notch and minimally in the suprapatellar pouch region. Impression: Stretch injury with mild fiber distruption of the anterior cruciate ligament; oriented and the bulk of the ligament intact; limited joint fluid intercondylar notch and patellar pouch region; intrasubstance mucoid degenerated subtle tear posterior horn medial meniscus right knee. This is a result of me being Airborne and jumping out of planes. I hit the ground hard one jump. The military doctors say that everything is fine. I can't keep my knee bent for too long or it locks out and I can't walk. My knee always pops and that helps with the pain, but it hurts when it does pop. The back of my knee sometimes feels like its not even there ( I'm guessing the ligament). It feels like bone on bone grinding on the outside part of my knee when twisting or turning. Please help me understand this MRI. I meet with the doctors soon.

What is wrong with my knee? At the beginning of this March or so, I was wearing my walking boot (I have left posterior tibial tendonitis), and while in the boot, I was reaching across my bed to get something. I was standing about, and the boot didn't allow for much flexibility, so I kept my left leg completely straight when reaching across my bed, I think I bent my left knee inward (hyperextended it, I guess?). I did that like three nights in a row that week. How stupid! I didn't hear any popping noises or anything and didn't begin experiencing pain in my inner left knee until a week or two after I did that. Since then, the pain hasn't subsided. It is only slightly better, but not much. I saw an orthopedist a few weeks after the pain started. He ordered X-rays and said that my bones and ligaments look normal and strong. He just recommended that I go to PT, which I have been doing for 3 or 4 weeks now for both my left knee and left ankle. My ankles seem to feel better because I have new sneakers and custom orthotics. However, my knee is showing no improvement despite all of the strengthening exercises my PT and I have been doing. I scheduled a follow-up with my orthopedist for this Thursday, but I am just so frustrated. What could be wrong, and what if no one can figure it out? I am always so worried that I am going to have these injuries forever and never be able to do what I love most again, which is to run and exercise. I guess I should also mention that I am recovering my anorexia. I don't know if that has any affect on my healing time. I am 5'4", 21-years-old, and am about 100-105 pounds. At my lowest, I was 76, so I am much better than then, but I managed to gain back all of the weight that I lost. I did that last summer (2009), so I've been at a healthier weight for almost a year now. Shouldn't my body be better internally? Would gaining more weight help? Everyone tells me I need to gain a lot more, but I cannot see that at all and am so scared to do so. I'm sorry this is so long, but any help would be greatly appreciated. Take good care.=)

OUCH!! What is up with my knee!? At the beginning of this March or so, I was wearing my walking boot (I have left posterior tibial tendonitis), and while in the boot, I was reaching across my bed to get something. I was standing about, and the boot didn't allow for much flexibility, so I kept my left leg completely straight when reaching across my bed, I think I bent my left knee inward (hyperextended it, I guess?). I did that like three nights in a row that week. How stupid! I didn't hear any popping noises or anything and didn't begin experiencing pain in my inner left knee until a week or two after I did that. Since then, the pain hasn't subsided. It is only slightly better, but not much. I saw an orthopedist a few weeks after the pain started. He ordered X-rays and said that my bones and ligaments look normal and strong. He just recommended that I go to PT, which I have been doing for 3 or 4 weeks now for both my left knee and left ankle. My ankles seem to feel better because I have new sneakers and custom orthotics. However, my knee is showing no improvement despite all of the strengthening exercises my PT and I have been doing. I scheduled a follow-up with my orthopedist for this Thursday, but I am just so frustrated. What could be wrong, and what if no one can figure it out? I am always so worried that I am going to have these injuries forever and never be able to do what I love most again, which is to run and exercise. I guess I should also mention that I am recovering my anorexia. I don't know if that has any affect on my healing time. I am 5'4", 21-years-old, and am about 100-105 pounds. At my lowest, I was 76, so I am much better than then, but I managed to gain back all of the weight that I lost. I did that last summer (2009), so I've been at a healthier weight for almost a year now. Shouldn't my body be better internally? Would gaining more weight help? Everyone tells me I need to gain a lot more, but I cannot see that at all and am so scared to do so. I'm sorry this is so long, but any help would be greatly appreciated. Take good care.=)

Knee Sprain Not Healing? I have been in recovery from posterior tibial tendonitis for a while now. When I was wearing my walking boot about two months ago, I did something stupid, which ended up damaging the knee on the same side where my tendonitis is (left). I was reaching across my bed for something, and kept my legs completely straight. I think I overextended my knee, and I did that about 2 or 3 nights in a row. I started experiencing pain from it a week or two later, and it has not subsided since. That was at the end of March. I saw an orthopedic for it. He just took x-rays, bent my leg in all kinds of positions, and said everything seemed strong and right. He recommended PT, which I started 3 weeks ago for my ankle, too. My PT and I have really been working on stengthening my knee and leg muscles, but the injury is not completely healing. I had PT this morning, and ever since getting home, my knee has been really hurting all day. I don't understand why it is not healing, just like my ankle. I am so frustrated and was just wondering if anyone has been through this before? I miss running so much and am eager to heal completely. Thank you so much for your time.=)

Anyone know anything about delivering a posterior baby? Anyone know anything about delivering a posterior baby? I am due in 2 days time and just got told this morning that my baby is posterior (faceing the wrong way). Im absolutly terrified now because the midwife told me if I cant turn bubs it will be a really painful birth. My first baby was a back labour (have no idea what way she was facing though) and that was more pain then I could imagine. I was so hoping to have a natural water birth this time around and would love to avoid all medication, but Im so scared the birth might be more painful or difficult. I am crawling as much as I can and sitting with my knees lower then my hips to try and encourage this baby to turn. Anything else I could try? and if anyone has any experience with posterior birth I would love to hear from you. Thanks everyone. Oh and how can I avoid going into labour? lol, I know most people ask how to encourage labour but I want to go over due so that I have lots of time to try and turn this baby around! EDIT: Posterior means the baby has its spine against my spine rather then its face against my spine. Its very differnet from being breeched (just thought I would add that because people think the baby is the wrong way up when I say baby is posterior but baby is head down, just facing backwards

Knee MRI, Help Interpreting Please? Your Open QuestionShow me another » Need Help interpreting Knee MRI. Please!? I am 32 and have been dislocating my patella over 20+ times since 17. My knee rides up and off the track as told to me by my pt. And it can pop out if I look at it wrong.. It get stiff, sore, hurts.. Anyway, Here are my MRI Results from Radiology. PLEASE can someone use lay mans terms to tell me what it is saying: There is a small effusion. This includes a small amount of fluid adjacent to the collateral ligaments. There is linear intermediate slightly increased signal intensity at the posterior horn of the medial meniscus extending to the inferior articulating surface compatible with a meniscal tear. Detail is limited secondary to linear artifacts. This is less likely secondary to an artifact which should be considered if the above finding does not correlate clinically. The anterior horn of the medial meniscus and anterior and posterior horns of the lateral meniscus are normal in appearance. There is a small amount of fluid, joint fluid less likely a meniscal cyst, adjacent to the posterior horn of the lateral meniscus There is increased signal intensity at the ACL most likely representing joint fluid between the fibers of the ACL which is much more pronounced at the femoral attachment. The ACL appears intact. The PCL appears intact. The collateral ligaments are intact. The patella and quadricepts tendons are intact. Marrow signa intensities are normal IMPRESSION: There is a small joint effusion. There is a linear signal intensity compatible with a tear of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus extending to the inferior articulating surface. Ok, so there it is. I am going to go to a pain management Dr. soon. What does the above mean, and do I need surgery? Also could I have OA, DJD (OsteoArthritis)?

Need Help interpreting Knee MRI. Please!? I am 32 and have been dislocating my patella over 20+ times since 17. My knee rides up and off the track as told to me by my pt. And it can pop out if I look at it wrong.. It get stiff, sore, hurts.. Anyway, Here are my MRI Results from Radiology. PLEASE can someone use lay mans terms to tell me what it is saying: There is a small effusion. This includes a small amount of fluid adjacent to the collateral ligaments. There is linear intermediate slightly increased signal intensity at the posterior horn of the medial meniscus extending to the inferior articulating surface compatible with a meniscal tear. Detail is limited secondary to linear artifacts. This is less likely secondary to an artifact which should be considered if the above finding does not correlate clinically. The anterior horn of the medial meniscus and anterior and posterior horns of the lateral meniscus are normal in appearance. There is a small amount of fluid, joint fluid less likely a meniscal cyst, adjacent to the posterior horn of the lateral meniscus There is increased signal intensity at the ACL most likely representing joint fluid between the fibers of the ACL which is much more pronounced at the femoral attachment. The ACL appears intact. The PCL appears intact. The collateral ligaments are intact. The patella and quadricepts tendons are intact. Marrow signa intensities are normal IMPRESSION: There is a small joint effusion. There is a linear signal intensity compatible with a tear of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus extending to the inferior articulating surface. Ok, so there it is. I am going to go to a pain management Dr. soon. What does the above mean, and do I need surgery?

i need help understanding my MRI results for my knee? I hurt my knee at the gym and its been hurting a lot over the past couple of months. My doc says i have IT band syndrome, chondromalacia patella and tendonitis....my pain was still the same after amonth or two of PT and my doctor ordered an MRI...i got the results...it seems okay but i dont really understand the medical terminology, Can someone who understands medical terminology help me out here? "Findings: Ligaments and tendons: the ACL is normal. The posterior cruciate ligament is intact. The medial collateral ligament is unremarkable Extensor Mechanism: the quadriceps and patellar tendons are in tact. There is no evidence of patellar tilting or patellar subluxation Osteoarticular Structures: there is no significant bone marrow edema. The hyaline cartilages are unremarkable. There is no evidence of avascular necrosis or osteochondritis dissecans Soft Tissues: there is a physiologic amount of fluid within the knee joint. There is no evidence of a bakers cyst. I understand most of it...but when it says "in tact" does that mean that its normal? When it says unremarkable, does that mean "good" Also, when it says the Posterior cruciate ligament is intact does that mean its normal? It also says that my medial collateral ligament is unremarkable...what is that supposed to mean it also mentions something about physiologic amount of fluid...what does that mean? Any help would be appreciated

Hello, could any one suggest me any treatment other than surgery. I've pain in my right knee.? My MRI report tells me that Grade 3 signal is seen within the posterior horn of the medial mensicus with communication with teh inferior articular surface indicative of oblique tear pattern.

Solutions for my knee pain (from a car accident)? Almost three years ago I was hit by a drunk driver while I was driving. As a result of the incident, I have a torn posterior cruciate ligament and my other PCL is damaged as well. In addition, a disc in my lumbar spine was slightly herniated. So now, years later my knees still hurt very painfully if I sit too long, stand too long, or run. The pain is a constant almost like burning stinging. Has anyone had this sort of issue and are there any useful ideas out there to alleviate the pain? I have a high resistance to many medical drugs, such as hydrocodone or whatever (this is what they gave me for the day after the accident and it didn't reduce the pain), and I am looking for a long term solution, not a temporary drug related fix. I know surgery could help, but I can't afford it. No thanks on vitamin supplements, as I have tried a variety with no positive results. If something was found that actually made the pain pretty minimal I would probably give the answerer some money :) No, nothing has been done for my back. I have a pretty strong back, but the pain from there seems somewhat limited, and my knee doctor tells me it is unrelated to my knee pain.

Tore posterior cruciate ligament and later subluxed kneecap - Do I get surgery? about 6 months ago playing rugby i took a hard knock on the front of my knee which caused me not to play for a few weeks, after getting back to playing and playing for about two weeks I subluxed my kneecap. this put me out for the rest of the season. Today I finally had my appointment with an orthopedic surgeon and after looking at my MRI scan he said that I have an extensive rupture to my posterior cruciate ligament. He said my knee is rather loose and I still feel a bit of pain when having my knee bent right up and feel a lack of strength/stability when putting force through it (e.g standing up from a squatting position). My question is do I get surgery to repair the PCL? I haven't read a lot of great things about it and it sounds like it doesn't do a lot of good. Cheers in advance, Ben

Shin (Splints Posterior) PAIN PLEASE HELP? Hi everyone, I'm 17 and play Football/Soccer 3 times a week, for the last 2 months I have had a problem with my lower legs I'm not certain on what the bone/muscle is called so I'm going to describe were it is. When I start intensive training I can feel pain coming from my shin/Tibia bone about 3/4 the way down from my knee on BOTH the inside (although right for about 3weeks) of my legs inbetween my Soleus muscle, when I press down on the area the edge of the Tibia bone I can really feel the pain and even when I jump or sprint. Does anyone have any idea what of what this pain or injury is and how long could I not play football ball for, also what treatment can I do to help e.g Ice, hot bath,massage anything PS: If you can stop this video at 0:33 that is exactly were my pain is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_dCZXQ9zAA Thanks so much any help will be GREAT

Differential diagnosis for knee pain/mass in the knee? Detailed description is included below.? - Female, about 20 years old, slightly overweight, otherwise healthy - Pain has lasted about 5-6 weeks. - Pain is worst when sitting and going up/down stairs. - Pain makes sleeping difficult and causes waking during the night. - A mass formed over the period of about an hour, pain soon followed. - Mass has slowly increased in size since it originally formed. - No current trauma to or overuse of the knee. - Undiagnosed trauma to the same area of the knee about 4 years ago - no symptoms since. - Mass is on the anterior/proximal/medial surface of the left knee. - Swelling is present around the mass - slightly above the mass, to either side, and above the patella. - No heat or redness above the mass. - Mass is most prominent when knee is bent. - Pain is in a circle around but not including the patella, and is worst at the site of the mass and diagonal from the mass (anterior/lateral/distal surface). - Pain is stabbing at the site of the mass, with lots of pressure through the entire knee. - Mass is about 4cm x 8cm. - Mass is rubbery and hard - not fluid. - Mass can be moved about 1-2cm in each direction. - Xrays showed no abnormal findings. (Arthritis was considered/ruled out; history of mild osteoarthritis in the hips due to bilateral congenital hip dysplasia - corrected by a brace worn until age 2). - Physical therapy has had no effect, pain level and mass size have both slightly increased - NSAIDs have not effected swelling or pain. - Without weight, range of motion is mostly normal. - Inability to squat. - No unusual anterior/posterior drawer signs.

Shin (Splints Posterior) PAIN PLEASE HELP? Hi everyone, I'm 17 and play Football/Soccer 3 times a week, for the last 2 months I have had a problem with my lower legs I'm not certain on what the bone/muscle is called so I'm going to describe were it is. When I start intensive training I can feel pain coming from my shin/Tibia bone about 3/4 the way down from my knee on BOTH the inside (although right for about 3weeks) of my legs inbetween my Soleus muscle, when I press down on the area the edge of the Tibia bone I can really feel the pain and even when I jump or sprint. Does anyone have any idea what of what this pain or injury is and how long could I not play football ball for, also what treatment can I do to help e.g Ice, hot bath,massage anything PS: If you can stop this video at 0:33 that is exactly were my pain is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_dCZXQ9zAA Thanks so much any help will be GREAT

Left Knee MRI results help? 20 yr old-Female 1 Year Post-Arthoscopy MRI results: Bones demonstrate no fracture or marrow abnormality. The cartilage of the patella, femoral condyles, and tibial plateau are unremarkable. The anterior cruciate ligament appears slightly attenuated however the orientation is preserved. The posterior cruciate and mediolateral collateral ligaments are intact. Anterior meniscal root of the medial meniscus appears since here very anteriorly. There is alight irregularity of the morphology. No meniscal tear is identified. The laterla meniscus appears normal oin signal intensity and morphology. Impressions: 1. The anterior meniscal root of the medial meniscus demonstrates somewhat irregular morphology and inserts very anteriorly. Findings may be correlated with arthoscopy results. 2. The lateral meniscus is normal in signal intensity and morphology. Those are my most recent mri results one year after the surgery. It's been a year and a half now since the surgery. My second doctor is now suggesting I need another arthoscopy because he doesn't know the cause of all this pain and immobility in my knee. Please translate these results for me in a simpler way and should I go for another opinion?

Medial and Posterior Knee Pain? So I have been a breaststroker for about 12 years now, and for the past 3 have had knee problems. Since I was born, my legs have naturally bent backwardshyper-extendingng). I was diagnosed with Iliotibial Band Syndrome a couple years ago after i noticed lateral knee and hip pain associated with a popping. I went through physical therapy for a couple months to correct it, and still continue to stretch it before and after swimming. However, it still seems to flare up at the peak of swim season. I also still find it extremely more comfortable to stand with my leghyper-extendingng, even though I have been advised not to. But more recently, I have had a minor burning on the medial portion of my knee as well as pain across the posterior aspect of my knee. It also seems to pop mordramaticallyly than when i had ITBS and it is an uncomfortable (yet not quite painful) popping. I also noticed that the pain occurs during breaststrokesquattingnexercisingng, running, and sometimes even while walking. It only ever locks up after a long distance of breaststroke. I was looking for some input on what this might be. Can ITBS lead to other knee injuries, or could I possibly be looking at something new and more serious? OR do I have nothing to worry about at all?

I just had an MRI on my Knee? need to know whether it is good or bad? Hello, it says in my MRI There is minimal joint effusion Apparent intermediate signal in the medial meniscus posterior horn. The lateral meniscus appears intact. The anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments including the medial and lateral collateral ligaments grossly are not disrupted. The retinacula, quadriceps femoris tendon and patellar tendon are unremarkable No gross bone contusion seen. Impression: >apparent intermediate signal in the medial meniscus posterior horn,rule out magic artifact or intrameniscal tear >minimal joint effusion it doet not hurt when I bend my knee (not like when it was the first time it really hurts when i move my knee and it always clicks and pops.) but it hurts when i do my indian seat or the figure 4 seat when I pull my knee closer to my body it hurts. the click and pain i think its inside the kneecap. but it clicks when i seated for a longtime. would i ever play my sports? (specially basketball?) could i use some heat packs. the doctor said that there is mild swelling on my joint but sometimes it just hurts. would i ever play my sports? (specially basketball?) could i use some heat packs. the doctor said that there is mild swelling on my joint but sometimes it just hurts.

exteme posterior knee pain? i was jumping on my trampoline yesterday and as i landed i felt a pop. i was doing a corked 900. my knee has swelled up 3 times its regular size, i can't walk and there is pain in the back of my knee. when i try to straighten it it feels like it is stretching my hamstrings. my whole knee is tender to the touch and i have very limited range of motion. when I lift my leg i can feel the pain into the top of my calf muscle. what happened?

what does this mean... i had a mri done for my knee pain..? some mild increased signal is seen involving the posterior horn of the medial meniscus. this does not appear to contact the articular surface. it could represent some minor degenerative change although a small intrasubstance tear could have this appearance. the anterior horn is unremarkable. the lateral meniscus is unremarkable. the cruciate ligaments and the collateral complexes are intact. the quadriceps and patellar tendons are intact. there is a small amount of joint fluid identified. there is no evidence of bone bruising. there is no popliteal cyst..

Pain at the outside of my knee? I have not been running for the last three months due to posterior shin splints but recently I did a 1.5mile run and return and got pain at the outside of my right knee. I took two weeks off from my workout and I just went for a swim today and I'm still getting this pain, when I kick my right leg forward or straighten my leg. What is this? Why is it my right knee? I am going into the military next year and need to be extremely fit, how much of a setback could this be, what is the prognosis? I'm 22, when I do lunges it can get very painful so I have to leave lunges out of my circuit training, I was running on snow/ice and I got the pains after, if that makes any difference. The pain is where the bottom outside thigh muscle meets the outside of the knee.

Front & back knee pain!? So ive had this pain for a while and it wasnt THAT bad, but i went to my orthopedic surgeon anyway just to be safe. He said i have bursitis in the back of my knee, which is water buidl up or inflamation. He said he didnt want to get an MRI and just wanted to leave it alone...eventhough it still was hurting? Im getting a second opinion on friday. BUT i wanted some insight becaue it is KILLING me to walk up the stairs, or drive because its my leg that uses the break and gas and it hurts my knee to move my foot left and right..I cant bend my leg at my knee or anything cause it will feel like it will snap...ive done research and i feel pain where my miniscus is and where my posterior cruciate ligament in the back of my knee..but thats just me doing research on it. What do you think??

Cause of Posterior Knee Pain? I have been having really bad pain in the back of my right knee. It mostly hurts after I've been active, especially after my winter guard rehearsals and after playing basketball. The pain is is primarily in the back of the knee and it hurts the most when I try to bend my knee. I would like to get an idea of what could be wrong before I go see a doctor.

MRI of Knee - Will it show calf too? I have been suffering from upper calf/posterior knee pain and just got an MRI on the knee. Will the MRI show the upper calf too or just my knee, because if it's not a tear in the knee joint, it might be a tear in the upper calf, which I hope can be caught by the MRI. Thanks

intrameniscal degeneration of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus? I am and 18 year old girl that has been playing volleyball competitively since I was 12. The last two years i have felt severe pain in both my knees while doing almost anything from playing a sport to sitting at home. I have been told it is many things including secondary to chronic post traumatic patellar tendonitis. I have been in Physical Therapy for 5 weeks now, but i feel no improvement what so ever. Should i under go surgery? How long is the recovery? and will i ever be able to play sports again? Thanks for your help.

Help with understanding MRI resultsof knee? I am a 17 year old female and got an MRI after a year of pain in my right knee and here were the results: -small right knee joint effusion is seen -there is irregular signal seen involving anterior and posterior horn of lateral meniscus consistent with complex tear -horizontal sigal seen involving posterior horn of medial meniscus consistent with tear -3.5 cm cyst present extending both superiorly and inferiorly away from joint space

What happened to my Knee? I have hurt the back of my knee either running or dancing (as I'm a dancer). There is pain in the posterior of my knee (the back) and it hurts to walk and fully extend the leg. I don't know how I did it or when, over the past 3 days the pain has increased and is now stopping me from doing things i.e. dancing. Mum won't take me to a doctor until 2 weeks away when her uni exams are over but i'm in pain NOW and I don't want it to get worse. What do you think it is and how do I treat it at home?

Severe posterior knee pain? Okay, so I was doing the typical laying in bed stretching one morning before I had even fully woken up. When I was jolted to being fully awake and in terrible pain behind my knee. I was holding the area that hurt practically in tears and noticed it felt like there was a rope of sorts pulling my knee to a bent position and I couldn't straighten it. This 'tight rope' went from my mid thigh down the back of my knee to about mid calf. The initial tightness subsided after about 10 minutes and my knee has been weak and very sore both to touch and to even the slightest of movements ever since (about 2 full days). I know I need to see my doctor but they have no available appointments for at least two weeks and I don't consider this 'ER' worthy. Does anyone have a clue to what it is, either by past experience or just general knowledge? It has happened before, several times actually, but, this was the worst by far.

What is this nerve pain behind my knee? For about a month now,I have been having shooting nerve pain behind my knee (posterior to my knee cap) and sometime in my thigh and calf on my left leg.I have read some reports about people having sciatic nerve problems but i am NOT experience any tingling or numbness.It really only bothers me if i am standing or walking for a long period.I haven't hurt it running or anything it just started hurting one day and hasn't stopped since.Anyone else ever experience this and what could be done?

KNEE MRI RESULTS PLEASE HELP? I tripped down the stairs a few months ago and immediately had pain on the inside of the knee. The pain was not bad at all, but I could feel pain. Went to 3 different physio therapists and 1 ortho surgeon who all said I did not have a tear. Got a MRI and it says Flap tear posterior horn medial meniscus. Could the MRI report be wrong? If I do have that tear where exactly would I have pain and what would it feel like? I am going back to see the surgeon but could use some help in the mean time. Thanks

My second Knee injury? I hurt my knee early this May playing rugby. Went to the hospital & was given crutches, unable to walk for a week. Later, in early June, I saw an orthopedic surgeon & he said that he was unsure if whether I hurt my ACL or just my meniscus. He withdrew the remaining fluid that had been in my knee for about 3 to 4 weeks, and the colour of the fluid was a yellow slightly tinted orange. He said that I was "half lucky" because red fluid = ACL tear, and yellow fluid = meniscus tear. When he did a knee examination, there was clicking, so he said that that is an indication of a meniscus tear. So it was possible that I only tore the meniscus & slightly strained or tore my ACL a bit. He told me to lay off with soccer, rugby, jogging/running, and any contact sports. Saying only to stick to biking and swimming. By the end of June, my knee felt great! Well, now it's July, I was careful of landing on my knee and etc. I wasn't planning on playing soccer or rugby again until I got permission from a doc. However, I felt like running a little because it had been two months since the injury. I ran 5km on a track & felt fine. It wasn't until after, when my friend & I decided to take some pictures of us sprinting across the finish line did I get hurt. I didn't twist it or anything, but when I sprinted I had my left (previously injured) leg fully extended and pushing against the ground & my right leg leaping forward to the finish line. I was being too competitive for a stupid picture cause I didn't want to look like I was losing in the pics. Then I felt & hurt a pop in the left leg, like I did the first time I ever hurt it, then my left knee went into an immediate bent shape as I flew to the ground. It hurt just as bad as the first time, it was really hot out so I told my friend to grab my water bottle for me so I wouldn't pass out from dehydration. I gave myself five minutes to recover, as I practiced straightening it out and bending it back in before getting on my bike and riding it a mile home. When I got home I iced it off and on for two hours. Then I went to the beach to swim & I was feeling fine. There was no swelling yet. I knew that I wouldn't have trouble the day of the injury, but I was expecting today to be more difficult. I had my leg elevated throughout all of last night. I didn't go to the hospital this time because I knew they wouldn't do anything. My MRI is scheduled for Thursday of next week, so they will be able to see the damage from the first time I got hurt & now this time. It took so long to get an MRI set up since May, so I am glad I got hurt now rather than hurting it after the MRI because they'll be able to see the new damage. Today, my knee is swollen, I've been icing it, and I've had medicine to relieve myself of pain and discomfort. I used my crutches to get around and I've been elevating it. I do not have full range of motion. My question is, is it possible that I tore a ligament this time and/or tore my meniscus more? The orthopedic surgeon did say that he believes I hurt the inner part of my knee of the meniscus, the first time I hurt it. So did I damage it even more now? The inner area of my knee does feel funny, and earlier the posterior part of my knee was uncomfortable. The swelling is all over. What may have happened? I am only 17 yrs old, been active my whole life, I'm a female so I know I am more prone to knee injuries because of my anatomy.

Possible ligament tear in knee? (READ ALL)? So I can't go to my orthopedic doctor until next week, because you need a referral...so don't sit here, saying that I need to go to the doctor...BECAUSE I KNOW. Well, what urgent care said, was that I have a knee sprain on my medial/lateral collateral ligament. They also put on my paperwork that I have a POSSIBLE meniscus and/or PCL (posterior cruciate ligament) tear. The pain is on the 9 scale, 10 when i'm walking. I walk with a limp, and I have to be on crutches. The pain is in/around the middle of the back of my knee, and on the sides of the knee as well. both sides. I can't straighten out my knee, and when I try, it's very intense pain and my knee won't let me do it. I'm really scared, considering I play soccer, and tennis....They said no more soccer for the season. So what I'm asking is... Do you think its a PCL tear or a meniscus tear? or both?

what muscle(s) are responsible for the pain on my posterior thigh with toes pointed and knee bent? Six years ago a sport injury left me with a "hip" pain that could be fixed by chiropractic visits. The pain had been when I tried to walk and had to do with my iliosacral adjunct (so i was told). once it was fixed, it didn't bother me until I was putting stress on it (soccer, hurdles etc.). Two weeks ago I was helping a friend pick up his motorcycle and put the weight on my previously injured leg. I instantly fell to the ground in pain and had blinding, (black out) vomit-inducing pain when i tried walking at all. it was excruciating all night, sleeping was not happening even on 4x recommended painkillers. the slight movement of driving was painful, even using my left foot on the clutch hurt (right thigh and lower back had the pain). in the morning the chiropractor was able to help and I can walk much better, but it still isn't fixed. I've been to the chiropractor 3x in the past week, but my bones seem okay now. he says the muscles are still just irritated, but I fell down the stairs (not because of weight bearing on the leg) it happened when I went to set the bad leg down on the next step. my family took me to the ER but the doctor there didn't know why anyone would ever have back pain, she scoffed at me seeing a chiropractor and that bone alignment could cause real pain. she took x-rays and said they looked fine, which makes sense since the chiropractor had fixed that problem. she didn't help me with the pain that was in the back of my thigh though. The ER doctor said it must be sciatica (pinched nerve in the lower back) but I'm not so sure. She gave me muscle relaxing steroids and stronger painkillers, but it still hurts. I've concluded that when I walk, it's least painful if I keep my foot at a 90* angle. laying on my stomach, I can flex my knee IF my ankle is bent. If my toes are pointed in plantar flexion I CAN NOT make my knee bend at all, it just hurts. when sitting with my knees bend and legs dangling i can flex ankle without inducing any more pain. it is sore to sit on it, but Any idea what muscle is being affected or what might really be wrong and how I might fix it?

Another knee question? Went to the doc a few weeks ago asking about my knee pain and he said it had to do with my hamstring not being stretched enough. His recommendation was to do a deep tissue massage on the back of my knee with ice and do the RICE treatment. I took 3 weeks off from running. Yesterday I did a light jog and there was no pain present. After sleeping and waking up there was immediate pain at the back of the knee "joint" While laying in bed I bent my knee and the pain was localized around the back and to the right of where the upper and lower bones meet in the leg (posterior). While sitting on the edge of the bed and my legs hanging off I retracted my lower leg toward myself against the side of the bed and the pain was pretty severe. It feels like a burning sensation. Pain going up and down stairs and more so after sitting for a period of time then standing. Unable to squat past 90 degrees with out severe pain. None when fully extending the leg. It is all centralized to the back of the knee joint. ETA when standing on just that one leg and knee slightly bent the pain is present.

How to know if a small meniscus tear has healed? I have a small meniscus tear in the pOsterior horn of my right knee. I heard that sometimes they do not heal if they are not on the outer edge close to their blood supply. It has been six weeks. The pain after moderate use is very light. I am wondering how to tell if the small tear will or has completely hEaled

Inflammation of the knee. ? Okay, to rephrase that last question and add more in. My knee has been hurting since March and hurts a whole heck of a lot now (probably because of adding marching band to it). I had an MRI about a week ago and my orthopedic said the report didn't really say anything about a meniscus tear which was thought that it could be (but I swear he read something about maybe a small tear or something in the posterior horn). Well, the doctor concluded that it was probably just inflammation and I have to go to PT to get exercises. The problem is, is how can inflammation hurt that badly? The other night my knee was aching in sooooo much pain that I swear I cried myself to sleep.

Can you help me understand my knee MRI scan report? I have knee pain after running and finally get an MRI report ( can be downloaded here http://ipv6pro.us/public_docs/knee-MRI.pdf ) It stated "discoid medial meniscus with a complex tear of the body / very mid knee joint infusion for the left knee and "complex tear of posterior horn and body of the medial meniscus / large knee joint infusion for the right knee. I am confusing and worrying about it . Can you help me understand it please ? Can I run ? Snowboard ? Can it be treated ?

Should I go to the doctor for this knee pain? Educated answers only please.? I was playing volleyball 2 weeks ago and I fell while diving and kinda tweaked my knee. I had bruising on the medial side as soon as it happened along with slight swelling all around the knee. The next morning when I woke up, I couldn't straighten my knee because of severe pain (almost like a stretching pain; but not quite like a muscle strain) on the popliteal fossa and slightly distal and proximal on the posterior aspect. I got it checked out by an Athletic Trainer a few days after the incident. He did basic tests for ACL, PCL, MCL, and LCL all of which were negative. I have been icing it 2 times a day. Now (two weeks later) the swelling, bruising, and pain have gone down. But now, I have different pain. It is all deep constant, sometimes radiating up and down my leg and on all aspects of my knee. It hurts/feels loose when I go up and down stairs. But only when my leg is suspended in the air. Most of my pain is on the medial and anterior aspect. I have full ROM but with symptoms increasing at about 160-170 degrees of extension. Flexion is fine until I really pull it in close. Sorry for the length but I wanted to give all the information. Also if you need anymore information feel free to email me. I just really want to get this figured out.

knee pain. radial tear of posterior horn medial meniscus? wondering where i would be having pain. I seem to be having more pain on the lateral side. cannot bear weight down stairs. and painful walking. would i have pain on the lateral side with this injury?

Interpreting Knee MRI? Well, my history is I am an avid runner who used to run outdoors around 20 miles (around 30kms) every week on alternate days. About 3 months back when I was training for a 10K run I started having pain on the front of my left knee. Despite the pain, I still ran in the event thinking that I will stop running afterwards until the pain completely goes away. I haven't really ran since then but have done cardio exercises in the gym like stair climbing, cycling and rowing. These days I have been feeling slight pain on the back of my knee esp. after driving and sometimes while sitting in a chair. This pain is not unbearable but slightly uncomfortable only for a moment. So I had my knee X-ray done. The X-ray report says everything is normal except there is a slight effusion at suprapatellar bursa. I went to see a physio then who recommended some VMO stretching exercise and ITB foam-rolling exercise. After doing those exercises, there was no improvement. The pain on the back of my knee still persisted. So I had my MRI done for left knee. The report states: Findings: No bony or chondral abnormalities have been demonstrated at the left knee. There is a small area of linear grade 2 degeneration of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus with no definitive evidence of a tear of either the medial or lateral meniscus has been demonstrated. Comment: Grade 2 degeneration of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus. I went to see an Orthopedic surgeon yesterday and he suggested me if I want to continue running, I must do an arthroscopy, or I should give up running and start activities like swimming, cycling etc. that do not have high impact on the knee. I do not want to give up running as running is the activity I enjoy the most. I just want to shorten my runs, maybe just run short distance (2 or 3 miles in one run or not more than 5 miles). I have been really preoccupied with this thought whether to go for an arthroscopy or change my lifestyle totally and give up running. Could you please help me interpret this knee MRI and kindly provide me your insights and suggestions. I appreciate your response. Thanks,

How to fix my knee pain? My left knee has been giving me problems for the past few weeks. I hyperextended my right knee a few months ago, and I was limping pretty badly for a month. That seemed to fix itself because now I'm back to full range of motion and no pain on my right knee. However, immediately after the right knee got better, the left one felt like I had a pulled ligament. If I bend my left knee all the way (like if I'm crouching) or just twist it in a certain direction, I get this biting, acute pain on the lateral side of the kneecap and on the posterior/lateral corner behind my knee. When I have it bent at a 90 degree angle or further and leave it there for a little bit (like when I'm sitting in a chair) and I stand up to walk around, I can't straighten my knee all the way at first. I have to walk it off for a minute (or rather, limp), but then it feels fine and I can walk around normally. There doesn't seem to be any muscle weakness, as far as I can tell. I'm thinking that while I'd injured the other knee and was limping, my left knee compensated for it and injured itself? Is that possible? (I'm a pre-PT student, so feel free to explain this using more clinical or complicated/detailed explanations. I find all this really interesting!) So I've learned that with knee injuries, you want to stabilize the knee joint by strengthening the hamstrings and quads. Is this what I should be doing for my injury? If not, what exercises or injury management techniques should I do? (Note: Money is really tight for me right now, and I don't want to see a doctor/PT unless absolutely necessary. If I can fix this myself, that would be great.)

my mother is suffering from knee locking with sever pain,MRI result shows posterior horn medial meniscus tear? and focal patchy marrow edema involving medial femoral condyle

Can someone read this MRI report for me and what does it mean ? I injured my knee 3 years ago and just recently had an MRI done do to movemnet of knee and pain. Report is as follows : Impression:Undersurface flap tear posterior horn of the medial meniscus with reactive marrow edema in the ajacent tibial plateau rim.

What could be causing my posterior knee pain? ? For about 2 months I have been having pain in the back of my left knee. It hurts when I bend it & re-extend it, twist to get into the car, try to sit indian style, its even woken me up at night when extending from a curled up position. It doesn't hurt to walk or stand. I am not a runner or even do much "exercise" at all really, just day to day normal chores. I'm not over weight & I haven't injured it at all. It came on somewhat gradually & has gotten worse. Has anyone else ever had this issue in the way I've described? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

low back pain, shoots into legs? I have pain in my lower back, my posterior, and down my legs, around knee, and it worsens when sitting, sharp sudden onset when I bend over, when sitting too long at computer, while doing school work today, I noticed my right foot went to pins and needles sensation. I recently started doing butt exercises. I'm wondering if I strained something, siatica, etc. I have tried stretching, but it is so painful. Hot and cold compress, hot showers, heating pads, walking, tylenol, ib profin, icey hot...nothing helps. Any info or input would be greatly appreciated, especially tips on how to feel better, thank you!

Help with my knee! Please!? So I am a dancer and the other day(May 3) I pulled my hamstring doing a split, so I did the RICE technique and its feeling better, however now there is a pain right behind my knee like on the sides in the little "pit" like thing when you straighten your leg. Its never really hurt before and when I touch to sort of see where it hurts, it feels like a long, hard string thing not really a muscle. But I know that the hamstring connects all the way to your knee, so is the pain I'm feeling just the lower parts of my hamstring hurting or something more serious? So you can sort of get a visual the pain I feel is in the part of the knee right at the left back side of the knee (in the picture its the part labeled medial hamstring tendon) but I just don't know if that's really what it is or what. So please help. http://www.aidyourhamstring.com/_img/anatomy-of-the-posterior-upper-leg-hamstrings.jpg