Long Beach Fitness Expert

I was injured very badly about 5 years ago with my knee. I don’t remember how long, but it took forever to heal. I was on serious pain pills. In Canada it can take a year just to see a specialist and by the time it was my turn, I felt I was healed.

Well the other day, in the rain, I was getting a toddler out of my car awkwardly because there was no room between the cars and the same knee went swinging out the same way as the first time.

I didn’t really notice it much at first but by the end of the day my knee/leg was 3x swollen…I mean it was huge! Impossible to bend it. Tons of pain when on it. Very irritable because I was trying to keep doing the norm. Had to use cane to keep weight off as much as possible and since it was a weekend, just stayed off it. Tons of ice and Motrin.

It has had popping sounds, very painful if I am on it or have to get up and down or go up and down stairs.

I went to physiotherapist and she figures it is torn ACL or cartilage but is seeing me in 2 days to see how it is…also recommending my physician send me to surgeon.

I had plans to go on Vacation with friends in July to the beach, and they wanted me to help with child care for little ones…where I am definitely needed to be flexible and up and down and ready to go. They need to know if I am not able to perform, or go on vacation with them. They are now concerned I will even be able to work for good now.

I’m like..how do I know how long it will take to heal?

I’m worried now and wonder if this sounds as serious as it could possibly be?

I am also overweight and was just starting on a fitness routine when this happened…can I eventually exercise enough to get in shape w/o hurting knee?

Thank you for your patience in reading my question.
The main part of the question was….approx how long can this take to heal if I don’t have surgery? Any ideas?

i suggest an eliptical machine for getting back in shape, takes the stress off of your supporting tissue and is low impact.
meninscus damage really only occurs from high impact. i.e. jumping out of a second story window and landing on your feet. its your knees air bags so to speak. it can get injured by a non high impact source, but it takes a lot to tear one of those. which direction did your knee go swinging out? any direction can injure the ACL, but depend ing on the direction it could be another ligament or 2.
really you need a doctor to do a few special tests on you to determine whats what. you can be pretty sure that it is not a complete tear atleast, if it was you would not be able to move your knee.

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