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Hi. Please advise me. My 13 year old son is a keen footballer. On 2nd Dec he was tackled and his foot was planted resulting in a nasty twist to his knee. At first I thought it wasn't that bad as he went back on the pitch after 10 mins, but on getting home he couldn't get out of the car. Ice and ibuprofen etc. Next morning he was no better so we went to A&E to be told it's a minor sprain of the ACL , use these crutches for 48 hrs but you must walk on it.
He fell on it at school the following day and then it locked completely. The gp said A&E had misdiagnosed and it seemed more like MCL. Referred us back to A&E who this time said it would take 4 weeks to heal properly but he MUST start putting weight on it. They even told him off for using his crutches wrong. No follow up, nothing. He was really struggling at school so after 10 days or so I took him back to the gp who got us an urgent referral to orthopaedic specialist the next day and into the physio system. He got given a huge knee brace and referred for an MRI scan. Told it's his MCL but there might be a meniscus tear too.
The physio was Xmas Eve and the MRI scan was 27th so some progress, but his level of pain still prevents anything but the most pathetic of physio exercises and the physio man was concerned with the level of pain, and the earliest follow up I was offered with the orthopaedic is still in 4 weeks, (at first they offered me end of Feb)
My son can't even take a step, can bearly move his knee beyond a few degrees (the physio is supposedly building this up) and it's now 4 weeks today. It seems to have made very little/no progress.
A friend said I should take him back to the gp to see if they can hurry things up. Am I being impatient? He's 13! Football is his thing! We surely can't wait another 4 weeks before any news on the MRI even! He can't even access all his classrooms at school on crutches.
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