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MCL injury due to ski
I got medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury on my right knee due to
ski. I fell on ice ground, my right knee did not hit the ice ground, My left body fell on ice ground, and I twisted my right leg outside about 60 degree. It has been three weeks. I still have strong pain when I move my right leg side by side. But I can move my right leg slowly back and forth without pain. I take advil 400mg three times per day. Since I try to avoid to put my body weight on my right foot, I have pain and sore on right side of my body, my hip. I feel my right foot is stiffer than a week ago. Do I have to keep my right knee warm, exercise perhaps? How do I heal my right knee faster? Will the knee ligaments be permanently weak or susceptible to injury? Is it possible I can ski again? What rehabilitation do I have to exercise? Please give me some advice. Your help will be appreciated. |
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Did you actually go see a doctor who told you you have an MCL injury?
If not, that's where you have to start -- not asking random strangers on the internet for a fix to a self-diagnosed problem. If you have seen a doctor, you should be asking him/her about treatment and recovery. -- Mary Malmros Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug. |
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"Jon C" wrote in message ... wrote: I got medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury on my right knee due to ski. I fell on ice ground, my right knee did not hit the ice ground, I too got this injury when I was at Geilo Norway for the World Masters. I was going to a Team Captains meeting walking across a frozen bus turning circle carrying skis and briefcase. The heel on my SNS boots caught the top of a rut and my toes went down into the deep hollow. Next morning the OC took me to a hospital for xray etc. The doc said I had two courses available to me as it would take 12 weeks for recovery, later confirmed by my doc. First was to contact the physio at home and submit to 12 weeks of torture and acute pain, lessening each week. Second was to go home and rest for 2 weeks then gently move around the house for the next 2 weeks. Followed by 4 weeks of daily increasing movement and strength exercises and then 4 weeks getting outdoors each day gradually building up to the level of race fitness I'd started with. I chose the second. But on week 11 I was kneeling on the carpet fixing a screw in the lower door hinge when my knee went again. This time I felt my lower leg separate at the knee joint from the upper leg. Another 12 weeks!! |
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You need to have some physical therapy perhaps. It seems to help. I
didn't have the same injury, but I had a knee injury from a fall during skiing last year. A kinesiologist helped me. June wrote in message ups.com... I got medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury on my right knee due to ski. I fell on ice ground, my right knee did not hit the ice ground, My left body fell on ice ground, and I twisted my right leg outside about 60 degree. It has been three weeks. I still have strong pain when I move my right leg side by side. But I can move my right leg slowly back and forth without pain. I take advil 400mg three times per day. Since I try to avoid to put my body weight on my right foot, I have pain and sore on right side of my body, my hip. I feel my right foot is stiffer than a week ago. Do I have to keep my right knee warm, exercise perhaps? How do I heal my right knee faster? Will the knee ligaments be permanently weak or susceptible to injury? Is it possible I can ski again? What rehabilitation do I have to exercise? Please give me some advice. Your help will be appreciated. |
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I didn't find that physiotherapy was torture at all. I had ultrasound
treatments and very gentle exercises that increasingly got more intense. Whenever there was pain, I was told to stop. June "taywood" wrote in message ... "Jon C" wrote in message ... wrote: I got medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury on my right knee due to ski. I fell on ice ground, my right knee did not hit the ice ground, I too got this injury when I was at Geilo Norway for the World Masters. I was going to a Team Captains meeting walking across a frozen bus turning circle carrying skis and briefcase. The heel on my SNS boots caught the top of a rut and my toes went down into the deep hollow. Next morning the OC took me to a hospital for xray etc. The doc said I had two courses available to me as it would take 12 weeks for recovery, later confirmed by my doc. First was to contact the physio at home and submit to 12 weeks of torture and acute pain, lessening each week. Second was to go home and rest for 2 weeks then gently move around the house for the next 2 weeks. Followed by 4 weeks of daily increasing movement and strength exercises and then 4 weeks getting outdoors each day gradually building up to the level of race fitness I'd started with. I chose the second. But on week 11 I was kneeling on the carpet fixing a screw in the lower door hinge when my knee went again. This time I felt my lower leg separate at the knee joint from the upper leg. Another 12 weeks!! |
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Gumby wrote:
wrote: Please give me some advice. Your help will be appreciated. 1) Go see doctor Crapshoot. Just because YOU found a good one doesn't mean that anybody else will. As a matter of fact, the odds are against it. A friend's BIL has been undergoing medical treatment for debilitating hip pain for years, possibly decades. Diagnoses (no HMO constraints, one of his docs is on retainer to the Lakers) have ranged from a dual hip replacement to bed rest. Latest one suggested snipping the muscle that the sciatic nerve passes through, which had hardened. That seemed to do some good, but not permanently. Friend said that one of the docs told him that 80% of all back surgery is useless or harmful. 2) Go see English teacher He speaks English better than we speak his language. 3) Go see Psychologist (you shouldn't be asking for medical advice on a skiing newsgroup) Some docs discourage questions. Make that MANY docs. Many others are unable to answer them even if they want to. Many others answer wrong. See #1. 4) Don't cross-post His cross-posting was reasonable and sensible and has been replaced. 5) My advice is valid. While I'm not a doctor, I play one on TV. Any Emmies to your credit, or are you just trying to be funny? My car won't start and my back hurts. Both pretty much wipe out skiing for the foreseeable future. Don't make me any angrier than I already am. -- Cheers, Bev ************************************************* Never argue with a woman holding a torque wrench. |
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"The Real Bev" wrote in message ... Gumby wrote: 5) My advice is valid. While I'm not a doctor, I play one on TV. Any Emmies to your credit, or are you just trying to be funny? You must be old enough to remember that ad on TV. It must be the must unconvincing line ever. |
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Richard Henry wrote:
"The Real Bev" wrote Gumby wrote: 5) My advice is valid. While I'm not a doctor, I play one on TV. Any Emmies to your credit, or are you just trying to be funny? You must be old enough to remember that ad on TV. It must be the must unconvincing line ever. Of course not, that was WAY before my time. Didn't Durward Kirby do a takeoff on that on the Carol Burnett show? BTW, isn't it about time you posted your REAL name and address? -- Cheers, Bev ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ "Calling someone an asshole for being rude to a telemarketer is like accusing someone who's shot a burglar in his home of being a poor host." -- W.S.Rowell |
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