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any one there with mm tear and avoided surgry by doing prp therapy? or have done prp therapy after surgery. ..how does it go? plz share your experience .
thanks All
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Bosco waqas48758
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I had this is surgery it was worse after I was in more pain than before six months after I started using this therapy I feel so much better I can stand and walk back to where I used to be but almost there I wish I would've known about this system before I got the surgery surgery has actually made me worse
waqas48758 Bosco
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best regards,
waqas
jeanette28393 waqas48758
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Hi there. Had a meniscus repair. Made my pain worse. They should not have repaired because I was bone on bone so they should have done a knee replacement. 3 years later this past July had a knee replacement.
I fell hard in feb and tore my other knee. It is also bone on bone. Having a knee replacement Jan 2018. That's the earliest I can get in. Have to suffer the tear pain :-(
Painful. There r stretches u can do. Just search on line.
Good luck
waqas48758 jeanette28393
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Oldfatguy1 waqas48758
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I have been in therapy over the years with several people that have overcome minor tears with proper exercise........but even more that had to have it trimmed in surgery for complete repair. So what does that tell you......there doesn't seem to be an absolute as far as the treatment that will work.
If I had to choose, I would do the exercise 1st. I had my trimmed up when they were looking for profound bleeding. Turned out I had a tumor and the Dr later told me they wouldn't have worried about going in for the meniscus as it wasn't that bad.
One other thought....if its torn, even the least bit, don't do any high impact stuff or sports till you do the therapy. Pushing it is a slippery slope to a guaranteed surgery and 6 week recovery
waqas48758
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aliaa1993 waqas48758
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waqas48758 aliaa1993
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It will not only help to reduce pain but it can decrease the progression.Since i am 30 year old and have bilateral tears i might need to do that on yearly baisis or dont know fequency.
Can you please be kind enough to share your expiernce with us and age and ask your practictionar how often we need to do this.
and doing it twice a year can have negative effecto or not.
Thanks again and all the best wihses.
aliaa1993 waqas48758
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Hello Waqas
i visited another dr who has done me the physical examination of the knee meniscus. And saw the mri. He told me my muscles are very very weak. And the tears are not that bad to be fixed by physiotherapy first along with daily exercises. He told me that even mensicony or any procedure won't get me any use as long as my muscles are that weak. So I got to do therapy for 4-5 months and then we see the result. Mind you, the therapist is in governmental hospital so it is free due to insurance. But the dr who advised me the PRP needed buckets of money per injection. I am 23 years old. The governmental dr told me that I am young and that naturally my body is still building itself. Plus, I was never exposed to trauma contrary to most people who did the PRP.
For PRP dr, he told one injection every week for total 3 injections+ food supplement for a year + doing PT along with all that to get the effect.
Did u have a trauma Waqas?!
aliaa1993
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And also there is a possibility that PRP is of no avail after that. He told me 1:3 people don't get the benefit of PRP. So there is no guarantee. But I heard of ppl did PRP after or before the surgery as a completion to it
waqas48758 aliaa1993
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As far i remember its nothing considerable but i do remember one incident in which while playing with my kids on the bed i was like cat/whatever and popped my left knee..it was hard could not bend fully for 1 week..and by the time passes i started having occsainaly pain in both knees which was becoming more often. and tighs muscles were stiff. could not perform job..got dignosed from serveral doctors...some says atrhitis some say flexiblity some says muscle weeks and finally got a doctor who said mm tear..wasted a month on inital treatment for nothing..got mri..and since i recently had lock episodes(right knee with grade 2 tear) ..i got surgry for that...doctor did nothing to repair horizaontal tear.
In short more doctors more confused..even they dont help to decide which knee to go(left knee grade 3 tear)....i got surgry done(for right grade 2 tear) because it was locking and hoping he(gernal ranked surgon in miltary hospital..crap) might repair that..so as you also said prp might not work or odd 1:3 ratio, we are young and highly likely to be in that 1. along with physotherapy.is our only hope.since no side effects so far know to us..and dont forget placebo effect and its all mind game.
All the best