Speaking from experience, you will feel intense pain around your knee at the time of incident. This will be followed by swelling. If it feels like your knee is unstable after the swelling (the swelling was supporting the joint), then you probably have a complete or near complete tear of a ligament. The ligaments and cartilage of our body will NOT heal themselves as other injuries. Depending on severity, you will either need knee surgery or physical therapy to develop the muscles around the knee to make up for lack of support.
Your Patellea (that would be your knee!) behind the knee? inside the knee?
No, its considered an ACL tear.
Tear rhymes with stair and means to pull apart.
There are 5 main causes of pain behind the knee 1) Bakers Cyst - inflammation of the bursa (fluid filled sac) at the back of the knee. It is normally asscoiated with swelling behind the knee 2) Cartilage Tear - a tear in the cartilage at the back of the knee. 3) Arthritis - wear and tear of the bones and cartilage. Most common over the age of 50 4) Hamstring Injury - injury (eg tear or overstretching) of the hamstrings muscles down the back of the leg 5) Knee Sprain - overstretching one of the knee ligaments See this site for more info
A meniscal tear is a type of knee injury that occurs when the cartilage in the knee (meniscus) is torn. This can happen from sudden twisting or forceful movements, leading to pain, swelling, and limited range of motion in the knee. Treatment may involve rest, physical therapy, or surgery depending on the severity of the tear.
Quadriceps muscle is one of the strongest muscle of the body, but yes it can tear. Quadricpes muscle originates from the femur the thigh bone and inserts into the knee cap bone patella and then it goes down further to insert onto the leg bone or tibia. The main function of the muscle is extension of the knee that is to make the knee straight. it can tear at three locations 1 quadriceps tendon tear 2 patella fracture 3 patellar tendon tear the effect of this is inability to extend the knee and inability to lock the knee while standing the person buckles at the knee while standing.
According to one expert the most common causes of minor knee pain are: strains, ligament tear, cartilage tear or osteoarthritis. If you have persistent knee pain you should get it properly diagnosed.
The ACL repair may have been damaged or torn. It may also be a meniscus tear. When you tear your meniscus, the knee seems to pop.
Vastus medialis (a tear-shaped muscle right above your knee)
When you dislocate something it usually results in one side of the knee (in this case) being weaker. Standing up (you may have stood up and applied force to the outside or inside of the knee in a weird way to cause the knee to dislocate. If its a part of the knee it would most likely be your patella or knee cap (very common injury). If you think of a horses reins you pull on the right to make the horse go right the same thing with the muscles in the knee the lateral muscles of the knee pull the knee cap out . Or the medial will pull in. Physical Therapy is the only way to fix this (or surgery).
Your knee has four ligaments that are used for stabilization the ACL, LCL, PCL and MCL. Usually the ACL is the worst ligament to tear because it provides the most stability out of the four ligaments.
Cartilage between the thighbone and shinbone is called the meniscus. This can tear when the knee is rotated or extended too far.