Dislocated Knee Cap
Have you ever imagined yourself not having knees? Your legs would be useless, no matter how shapely and nice they are to look at, if you had no knees.
The knee is a weight-bearing joint that connects the thigh and the leg to each other.
Normal daily functions of walking, sitting, standing, running and kicking can be performed because the role of the knee is to allow movement of the legs by flexing (bending) and extending (straightening).
Some of the more common knee injuries and their signs and symptoms include the following:
Injuries To The Ligaments:
Instant pain is the most likely result when because of a fall, or contact trauma, the ligaments, which are the tough bands of tissue that connect the thighbone (femur) and the lower leg bone (tibia and fibula) together are torn.
Discomfort may range from mild to severe. Pain is heightened when you walk or bend your knee.
Injuries To The Tendons:
The muscles are attached to the bone by thick fibrous cords called tendons.
Injury that causes the inflammation and irritation of one or more tendons of either one or both the knees brings about the condition of Tendinitis
The areas below the knee cap and at the front of the knee become swollen and are painful.
One will not be able to straighten the knee when tendons have been totally ruptured.
Meniscus Injuries:
This involves tears in the C-shaped cartilage that curves within your knee joint. It may hamper knee movement and cause your knee joint to lock so that you can’t extend it completely.
When this happens, the knee must be surgically treated.
Body Loose In Joint Space:
The floating of a broken off piece of injured or degenerated bone or cartilage in the joint space brings about the condition known as the lose body.
The floating piece of bone or cartilage could cause the same effect of a pencil caught in a door hinge, leading to pain and a locked joint. If the lose body does not interfere with the knee joint movement then there is no problem.
Kneecap Dislocated:
This involves the slipping of the triangular bone that covers the front of your knee (patella) out of place, usually to the outside of your knee.
Dislocation is visible and your kneecap swings from side to side. Great difficulty and pain would be experienced when attempting to walk or straighten the knee. The whole affected area would be swollen.
The risk of the knee being dislocated is higher if it has been dislocated previously.
Osgood-Schlatter Disease:
Active sports persons in the preteens and teens are affected by Osgood-Schlatter Disease.
The bony prominence (tibial tuberosity) just below the kneecap, usually on one knee, but sometimes in both, can be so affected by this overuse syndrome that it becomes swollen and tender causing great pain.
Knee Hperextending:
Hyperextended Knee is an injury in which the knee extends beyond its normally straightened position, such that it bends back on itself.
Acute knee pain is described as severe pain that comes on suddenly and is usually the result of injury or infection, leaving us screaming for knee joint pain relief.
Pain is experienced when an attempt is made to extend the knee. Swelling is also present even though the damage may be relatively minor. Partial and or complete ligament tear may result from a hyperextended knee.
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I’ve never thought about having no knees. That’s quite a funny image to think about. Good article, thanks for sharing.