Crunching knee

[vickster]

The original injury was a torn and ruptured ligaments. Took them 10 years to get round to it. Ten years of running in a straight line and not going very far. They keep telling me to hang on as cycling is so good for the muscles round the joint. The knee is starting to hurt when cycling. When I look down my left knee is about 6 inches from the top tube but the right is so close it occasionally brushes the top tube. Last specialist said if the pain gets to much ask to see me and I will sort it. I can still get in 3-4 miles of walking using naproxen. Pity I can't remember the specialist's name.

Your GP will know who you saw (you may have also received a copy of the clinic letter). Just phone and ask

 

[Notafettler]

Your GP will know who you saw (you may have also received a copy of the clinic letter). Just phone and ask

I will try that in a few weeks. Surgery text me today saying they were very very very very busy and to desist from ringing unless you really really really really have to!

 

[Notafettler]

My leg bowed out a fair bit, my original injury was from a Motorcycle accident over 30yrs ago.

Pain free and pretty straight now so well worth it, how old are you if you don't mind me asking, I was 54 when I had mine.

64 years young!

 

[HLaB]

Other than an ITB program 12 years ago I've been pretty lucky with my knees although there could be a minor crunch/click. Since I had a bike fit which looks at my cleats they're silent, then again it could be that my mileage is way down 🤔

 

[vickster]

I will try that in a few weeks. Surgery text me today saying they were very very very very busy and to desist from ringing unless you really really really really have to!

My surgery line gives the option to talk to the practice admin rather than reception. Admin would be the ones to access your records and give you name / organise the referral presumably

You’ll have a long wait for a knee replacement now with Covid, unless prepared to go private (and even then). If you think you (k)need it as you can’t function/manage the pain, get on the waiting list ASAP

 

[Deleted User]

I will try that in a few weeks. Surgery text me today saying they were very very very very busy and to desist from ringing unless you really really really really have to!

I paid private for my initial consultation which ensures you get the consultant you want then the rest on the NHS, took 5 mths from seeing the GP for the referral to being on the table.

Covid will obviously change time scales.

 

[Tripster]

Diagnoses is my outside quad is stronger than my inner quad ,VOM it’s called the muscle, resulting in when I squat down or run the kneecap is not running in the central groove on my fibula and causes the grating sound. Taped my knee cap up to pull it more to inside and all noise virtually gone.
Exercises to strength and possibly shoe insole as my feet are flattish so that puts the kneecap under tension on the inner muscle so it’s difficult to pull it over ( something like that anyway)
All in all pleased it’s nothing serious and free to cycle. Told to drop the long runs up hills in lakes though

 

[PK99]

Diagnoses is my outside quad is stronger than my inner quad ,VOM it’s called the muscle, resulting in when I squat down or run the kneecap is not running in the central groove on my fibula and causes the grating sound. Taped my knee cap up to pull it more to inside and all noise virtually gone.
Exercises to strength and possibly shoe insole as my feet are flattish so that puts the kneecap under tension on the inner muscle so it’s difficult to pull it over ( something like that anyway)
All in all pleased it’s nothing serious and free to cycle. Told to drop the long runs up hills in lakes though

Interesting. During my ACL rehab, I went through a period of excruciating knee cap area pain. Hobbled in to see the (private sports) physio using a walking stick and hardly able to bend my knee, he prodded and poke a bit and diagnosed a mistracking kneecap tendon, "... not in the grove ". He put a bit of physio tape vertically on on side of the knee, attached a piece horizontally, pulled it and the skin a few cm the the left and I walked out pain free walking stick tucked under my arm. Magic!

 

[Electric_Andy]

I've had this too; it has got worse in the last year. So much so that when my knee cracks sometimes, my partner heard it from quite far away. Maybe coincidence but it got worse after I knelt down and felt a shooting pain up the side of my knee. The pain subsided but the cracking got worse. I now can't kneel down at all, else I get the shooting pain again. I will try and see a Dr but at the moment can't see it happening for another few months at least.

 

[vickster]

I've had this too; it has got worse in the last year. So much so that when my knee cracks sometimes, my partner heard it from quite far away. Maybe coincidence but it got worse after I knelt down and felt a shooting pain up the side of my knee. The pain subsided but the cracking got worse. I now can't kneel down at all, else I get the shooting pain again. I will try and see a Dr but at the moment can't see it happening for another few months at least.

Drs are seeing people as are private physios (or NHS ones remotely), just make an appointment
Given what you’ve said about how it came about, it could be a meniscus tear

 

[Tripster]

Interesting. During my ACL rehab, I went through a period of excruciating knee cap area pain. Hobbled in to see the (private sports) physio using a walking stick and hardly able to bend my knee, he prodded and poke a bit and diagnosed a mistracking kneecap tendon, "... not in the grove ". He put a bit of physio tape vertically on on side of the knee, attached a piece horizontally, pulled it and the skin a few cm the the left and I walked out pain free walking stick tucked under my arm. Magic!

Yip, I am sat here now with tape on they used.... got exercises and leg weights to do

 

[simongt]

My left knee crunches and crackles

So does my right knee. But that was part of the leg that had a broken femur three years ago after getting rear ended by a car. Just spoken to my GP after recent x-rays were taken and I have the onset of arthritis in the knee and hip joints. Okay, I'm 67 and led a physically active life jobwise and cycle on an almost daily basis, but it's up to the expert with my solocitor to decide whether it's related to the 'primary event'.