Hey all,
I messed up and went too heavy on front squats a few days ago, and my right knee has been swelling up a bit. The pain is mostly between my knee and shin. Wondering if this might be something serious or if it’ll heal on its own. Seeing an ortho would be expensive and a huge PITA, don’t really want to go unless absolutely necessary.
I am not an expert, but sounds serious. I have never had swelling in my knee after years of squatting.
It looks like infrapatellar bursitis, but that is usually caused by direct pressure on the knee, not any particular movement. It could also be a patellar tendon injury. Either way, I’d wait and see if it gets better in a couple weeks.
[quote]smallmike wrote:
It looks like infrapatellar bursitis, but that is usually caused by direct pressure on the knee, not any particular movement. It could also be a patellar tendon injury. Either way, I’d wait and see if it gets better in a couple weeks. [/quote]
Well this sounds more serious than I expected. Guess I’ll get it checked out.
Unless you have a very bad patellar tendon injury, neither of those things are very serious. Your body should heal them on its own. The only thing a doctor could do for you would be to do surgery on the patellar tendon if the tear was bad enough, and even then, he would have to wait until the swelling went down. So my advice is still to wait at least a week and see if it is getting better, and if it is improving, wait a little more and let is heal on its own. If there is no change, go see a doctor. But there isn’t any rush. You can’t hurt yourself any more than it is already unless you do something stupid like keep lifting and pushing through the pain instead of resting.
I booked an Ortho for an appointment next week.
I did some more research anyway, and considered other possible causes of the injury. In addition to front squats, I stupidly did very heavy sets of farmers walks that involved a 180 degree turn. I think the FW’s are the more probable cause of my knee pain. I experience moderate pain while walking and turning, and only mild pain performing the squat motion.
This leads me to believe it’s more likely a meniscus injury?
The swelling has significantly subsided, but there’s still noticeable redness along the joint line below the kneecap. I have full range of motion in both legs, and my knee doesn’t ‘give out’ or lock up (although I haven’t walked for longer than 20 minutes on it). However, despite being completely inactive for the past week, my quads and calfs feel quite sore. Any idea why this could happen?
Hi
Just a quick observation from the pictures it look as though you have a valgus deformity with both legs.
This leads to abnormal loading of the entire knee joint and will over stress the lateral meniscus and cause problems such as chondro malcia patella and tendonitis.
I would highly suggest an orthopaedic consult.
Getting it checked out is good.
The soreness could be from lots of stuff… from my injuries I have found that late soreness like that can be from a fast stretch on the quad and calf from the initial injury or possibly from the quad and calf compensating for lack of functionality of some other muscle group. They could be trying to stabilize the joint constantly and don’t have the energy systems for that kind of use… so they get fatigued
Hey all,
Things are much worse. The pain was subsiding significantly, but yesterday I was walking fast because I was late to an (unrelated) appointment. I felt a sharp pain in my quad and had to sit down for a few minutes. Afterwards I was able to walk with moderate pain. Woke up the next morning and my whole leg hurts, especially my hamstring, knee feels unstable and can’t bare any weight. I can’t walk without crutches.
Ortho appointment tomorrow, hopefully an MRI the following week. Just wondering if this can be something less bad than an ACL tear.
pain also stretches down into my calf too
[quote]Mandrake wrote:
Hey all,
I messed up and went too heavy on front squats a few days ago, and my right knee has been swelling up a bit. The pain is mostly between my knee and shin. Wondering if this might be something serious or if it’ll heal on its own. Seeing an ortho would be expensive and a huge PITA, don’t really want to go unless absolutely necessary.
Definitely get it checked out. Do you have an odd sensation in the back of your knee?
See what the doctor says but realize this. Doctors have no idea what they are doing. He will tell you what is going on with the knee, which unless there is an actual issue is completely worthless unless he can tell you why it happened. Which he won’t have a clue about.
I’ll tell you right now it’s because your right glute is working like shit. Every other time I’ve seen this (looks to be the same thing) the person had horrible glute function and worse on the right side.
Ortho said he thinks it’s pateller tendonitis. Did an xray and manual tests and didn’t sense anything wrong. Said to take it east for a few weeks and recommended physical therapy
[quote]smallmike wrote:
It looks like infrapatellar bursitis, but that is usually caused by direct pressure on the knee, not any particular movement. It could also be a patellar tendon injury. Either way, I’d wait and see if it gets better in a couple weeks. [/quote]
Listening to this could have saved you that PITA.
But at least for yourself you know it’s nothing worse.
[quote]Mandrake wrote:
Ortho said he thinks it’s pateller tendonitis. Did an xray and manual tests and didn’t sense anything wrong. Said to take it east for a few weeks and recommended physical therapy [/quote]
Do PT if you want. But remember, there is probably NOTHING wrong with your knee itself. Overuse of the knee because of weak glute I am all but guaranteeing you. IF your PT doesn’t get your glutes going its worthless.
