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popping/clicking in the knee (following TKR)

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todd_87123
todd_87123

A few days after my total knee replacement surgery on June 20th this past summer (2016), I felt a pop or click inside my knee with each step I took. I didnt think much about it then. Two weeks after my surgery in my post-op check-up my surgeon it was "intneral scar tissue" causing the clicking/popping and over time the problem would go away.  I saw him last week, five months since my surgery. I told him I was still having this popping/clicking in my knee with each step i take. Now he says that it is the the metal clicking on the plastic and that it will go away once I get my leg muscles built up. The stronger mucscles will "tighten up the parts" and the discomfort and pain caused by the internal friction (and clicking/popping) will end.  

The bottom line is that I think the replacment parts are loose internally. I hope a re-do is not needed. 

Have any of you had this type of problem?    

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  • susan31049
    susan31049 todd_87123

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    I am almost ten weeks post op bilateral TKR. My surgeon told me to expect the clicking/popping--gave me pretty much the same explanation as your doctor. I have a bit of clicking in each knee but don't notice it most of the time. I really think it will go away with time.

  • ihavenonickname
    ihavenonickname todd_87123

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    I have not... total knee is typically three parts....one piece is implanted into the femur (thigh), a second piece is implanted into the tibia (large bone lower leg), and the third piece is implanted into tbe underside of the patella (knee cap)...this is what allows the patella to glide over the new knee joint.

    Many people are able to hear this movement. Because you did not mention pain, nor swelling, nor deformity it would seem that all is well.

    kind regards

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