no quad control following arthroscopy

leslie22109 kittylamb · 2017-12-30T16:52+00:00

The theory that made sense to me was that the brain shuts off receptors for the area because of the surgery trauma and pain. I heard that it must be dealt with quickly within a few months or it becomes permanent. We were able to resolve this issue within the 3 month timeframe for our daughter who had youth on her side by doing clam exercises, sitting with back against wall and both legs straight and firing both quads at same time (it helps to work both sides together), massage, and a change of scenery (we went out of town to visit family and it was amazing how the change of environment stimulated her brain). So sorry for your challenges. Sending health blessing to you.

chrissy12349 kittylamb · 2018-05-10T07:03+00:00

Hi, I am experiencing exactly the same thing and surgeons are baffled with me too. I was extremely fit, no problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments. Had simple right knee arthroscopy to clean my knee joint out, scraping out inflamed plica to be exact in September 2015, after initially hurting it back in January 2013. I was unable to squat or fully bend my knee, and had excrutiating pain at night time while sleeping. After the arthroscopy, I could not walk on right leg after this, struggled for months and months to work out a way to walk without my knee buckling on me. February 2016 surgeon sent me for an mri as my knee had an indent evident and he felt I had a torn patella tendon which was why I could not walk properly and my knee was buckling if my knee had weight on it and bent. I could not do a straight leg lift, walk up and down strairs, could not flex my thigh muscle at all. MRI showed all okay. Quads kept wasting away, all my research showed tendon issues. August 2016, I requested from my GP to send me for a ultrasound on my knee tendons as it was nearly a year now, with severe quad wasting and my surgeon was doing no follow up work to try and work out what was going on. Ultrasound showed patella tendon laxity. Surgeon had me in for surgery November 2016 and did a Tibial Tubercle Transfer to tighten the tendon. Was in a brace for 6 weeks. Started Physio end of January 2017 and was excited I could flex my muscle after a couple of weeks. Could do little amounts of leg lifts a month later, then 3 months later physio exercises started becoming very painful. Physio sent me back to the surgeon, xray was done which showed my patella had dropped further and now had patella baja. Surgeon felt there was nothing else he could do, said to handle the pain as much as I could, stop physio exercises cause the bone was rubbing on bone, and even though I had nothing wrong with cartilage, eventually I would have to go back to him as the cartilage would be diseased and he would then deal with it. I went for 2 other opinions. My new knee surgeon wants to move my patella back up 2.2cm and place another 4 screws in. I asked him wouldn't it then make my patella floppy again by moving it up, he said we will deal with it when the time comes. I wanted my quad muscle to be scanned to see if there is an underlying issue there seeing I've gone backward from the TTT surgery. He doesn't seem to think that would be the issue. I was concerned that after the original simple knee arthroscopy, my knee may have been bent fully while I was still on surgery table to make sure my knee was working properly, and seeing I hadn't been able to bend it for 2 years prior to the surgery, did something happen that snapped something in my thigh to cause constant ongoing problems.

Boeing74 kittylamb · 2018-06-20T22:38+00:00

I am 4 week’s post op now of a meniscus repair. I zero control of my quad. I can’t do a leg lift to save my life. If I was my knee buckles. Seeing that I am not alone brings me a little piece of mind but also worries me that this could be a much longer process.

no quad control following arthroscopy

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