Severe Calf Pain after Knee Surgery?
The day after having lateral release surgery on my left knee I started having Severe Calf Pain. Still experiencing pain and unable to put any weight on my leg, my surgeon had me go to the ER to have a Dopplerr ultra sound done to insure I have no clots. The test came back negative. Something else that baffled the surgeon is I lost mobility in my leg. Unable to lift my leg, though my mind thinks I am lifting it.. it hangs almost dead like. Week later and still extreme calf pain, have not been able to put any weight on it. The only relief from pain is when I elevate it. Then the pain is tolerable. I managed to lift it an inch. All the symptoms as follows: *Severe Calf Pain * Immobility * Mild fever *Occassional Numbness *discoloration *Unable to straigten leg *whole leg swells ***forgot to mention, when I lower my leg it feels like blood is being restricted which causes the calf pain to be worse. My surgeon does not seem too concerned, despite being puzzled to why I am unable to lift my leg and the pain. Deseperate for help, has anyone experience this and what did you do to overcome it? they started me on physical therapy and I've been trying to do exercises which is hard when your leg wont straighten, immobile and calf pain. (I know pain is involved, but the surgeon said it would have been my knee not the calf)
How can I treat a calf pain after an ACL surgery?
It depends what is causing the pain. It COULD be that the muscles and tendons have shrunk or atrophied and each step is stretching them back out and they don’t want to go.First, I would tell your doctor then your PT. I would suggest contrast baths (both legs - use trash pails) to loosen everything up and get the circulation going. Then maybe deep tissue massage and mild stretches though, a deep tissue massage will stretch everything out and break up and scar tissue and clots and you won’t have to do a thing.I had the same issue. Just take your time, don’t rush the healing. It will happen. Listen to your therapist. Don’t push it. Even though I was jogging in a month (those bastards), it wasn’t until about six months that I was pain free, a year that I was normal and two years when I forgot I ever had the surgery. It took me a long time to forget and fully trust my knee.-Malcolm (Wimp).
Inner Knee Pain - What Could It Be?
Does it hurt if you sit down with your leg straight out before you for awhile (2 or 3 minutes) and then try to bend your knee? Does it hurt if you stand up and turn your leg in one direction without moving your foot (turning at the knee)? Is the pain at the spot where your lower leg is joined to your upper leg (at the level of the "bend" in your leg)? Are you overweight? If so, it sounds like a torn medial meniscus to me. I had the pains I just described to you and was diagnosed with that. I did not have any "injury" that I could remember, either. Evidently the tear happened at some time when I turned crookedly or something. That may have happened to you when you got up from the chair. You might have turned crookedly. Medial meniscus refers to the inner side of the crescent-shaped cushion of cartilage between the bones of your leg at the knee joint. If it's torn, you would get pain in that portion of your knee (inside part of your leg at the knee). I had surgery for that several years ago and I still get pain in the same spot. All the surgeon did was trim the torn part as far down as he could, but could not repair the tear itself. (He has since moved his office, so I don't even know whether he is still in practice or not.) I have spoken to others who have had a torn medial meniscus. Some have had the surgery, others have not. I haven't found one person that has been "healed" after surgery. Apparently the pain will be better some days, worse others. Check with your physician for a confirming diagnosis. If it is a torn medial meniscus, get all the information you can and weigh the factors before you decide whether to get the surgery.
Should I see a doctor? My left thigh muscle is KILLING me! Pain is in front outer part of thigh and above knee
Have you been very active prior to this? Or, did you jump into this without much warm-up or having exercised for a while? Here's my diagnosis. First, you shouldn't have taken that step class after you killed your quad muscles in the cycling class. You're not going to work through the pain, only make it worse. Sounds like you've got Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness(DOMS). When we work out, we are constantly tearing our muscles so they can re-build which makes us stronger. Those tears are tiny though-not enough to cause injury. You probably went too hard and have strained your quad/tendon that attatches to the knee. If you go to a doc, he's going to tell you to rest it, ice it, take ibuprofen, and take it easy. I just saved you that trip. Because you didn't land funny on your knee or anything, there's nothing with the ligaments. It's muscle. So, like a doc might tell you, rest it, ice it(sit in a cold bath), stretch it a lot(your quad), and drink plenty of water. After a while, you'll want to alternate heat and ice. When my legs were killing me from a workout, my trainer told me to drink a lot of water to flush that lactic acid out. The other issue you might want to think about is that while cycling is a good exercise, it might not be right for you. Sometimes, if your legs aren't strong enough or one side is stronger than the other, you're doing to develop pain in your thighs and knees. Runners get that too because their stride is off. If your inner thigh muscles aren't strong enough, the outer ones will do all the work, they will be sore, and your knee is going to be sore because those outer ones are constantly pulling the kneecap and they'll be some irritation there.
Very bad pain in knee and dent in knee what is wrong--why is there a dent that comes and goes?
though your answer was interesting, tsc, let me point out I chose none of this. I was hit by other drivers in 25 wrecks including being run over by a women not paying attention and a 55 mph crash by someone greatly exceeding the speed with no license who had caused several othewr accidents. My hernations etc are a result of these and other accidents so I am sort of offended by this answer (2nd one) that seems to put the blame for this pain on me.