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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- We are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today, Brad, we're gonna talk about how to know
if you have a serious knee injury or problem.
Now this could be after an injury
or it could be just over time.
- Right, right.
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Unfortunately. - Right, we're well aware of.
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All right. So let's go with number one, Brad.
- Oh, back to the knee, yes.
- One, you see, you can't even bear weight on the leg.
That's not a good sign.
- Right.
That's um, most people are going to figure that out,
But there's some people,
particularly some guys...
- Yeah, yeah.
- Aw, it's just...
- I'll tough it out.
- You know, it's like, it's just a flesh wound. No big deal.
- Right.
- Well, you might make a worse.
- That's an old saying, it's like flesh wound.
Number two, it's really swollen.
Especially after you're not just,
you know, we're not talking about, you know,
a little swollen around the kneecap or something like that.
I mean, it really swelled up.
- It starts to look like that balloon, so to speak,
- Right.
- You know, you've got to pay attention.
- You know there you may have a ligament injury
or the patella maybe slid out of place, you know.
- Right.
- Number three, you see an obvious deformity.
Now this is one I think people would probably go in,
if they see the knee's kind of off...
- Yeah, say your knee cap is over on the side.
- Right, or your bone is kind of hooked off to the side.
- Yeah, so pay attention to that.
- That's pretty obvious.
Okay, number four, it feels like the knee buckles
or gives way.
Like a lot of times it may even feel
like the shin bone is shifting.
- Oh yeah.
- Like we have with an ACL injury.
- Or you have that thing where it's like, you get that.
It's like, "What happened?"
You know it just gives out.
Right, exactly, the knee buckles.
So number five, excessive bruising.
Especially like you might have a quadriceps
or hamstring tear and you know, down near the knee.
- Particularly if there's not an obvious reason,
like you fell on the ice.
That's one thing, but you know, you may strain a muscle
and actually get some of that ecchymosis,
or that bruising color from muscle being torn.
- Just generally as a rule of thumb,
the more ecchymosis- - Or black and blue.
- Black and blue that you see-
- That purplish color
- ...usually the worse the injury was.
- Sure.
- You tore a lot of blood vessels and you...
All right. Number six, you can't flatten the knee.
You can't, you can't straighten it all the way out.
It feels blocked, right?
- Yeah. It won't go down like it's supposed to,
and it always used to, and it's like...
Oftentimes there may be pain associated with that
- Right.
Sometimes it's swelling,
but sometimes it could be your cartilage got tore
and flipped a little bit.
- Yep, your meniscus injury.
- And it's blocking the movement.
You can't bend the knee. It would be the same thing.
It could be, it could be cartilage, but you know,
you can compare the two.
You can bend your one knee.
- This one goes way up here, but this one's stuck.
- Yeah.
- Usually there is pain associated at the end range
with both of those typical with a meniscus problem.
- Number eight, your knee gets stuck,
or it kind of catches, when you're walking.
- Locks up.
- Number nine, you have a...what am I reading, here, Brad?
(Brad laughs)
Could be pain in addition to redness
and swelling in your knee.
So this, this we're worried about infection.
So you have pain, but you have redness and swelling.
- Particularly if you've had a knee replacement,
- Right
- And there's no reason for it.
- My mother-in-law went into the clinic three times
before they diagnosed it.
- Really?
- NO, to a hospital three times,
and they didn't even diagnose it there.
They diagnosed it at another hospital
and they diagnosed it within like-
- She had an infection?
- 10 seconds.
- Oh, yeah.
- So I don't know.
All right. Number 10, final one.
And the pain is just not getting better,
or it's getting worse.
- So that constant ache that goes on for,
you know, two or three weeks,
and there's nothing that obviously makes it worse or better.
And it's just- - Right.
- hanging on there.
- And especially like night pain, if you're yeah.
You always want to get things like that checked out.
Short video, Brad.
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- Wow. Five Oh five.
We could keep babbling for awhile, see what happens.
- No, we'll stop for once.
(laughs)
Remember Brad and I can fix just about anything-
- Except for-
- A broken heart
- But, we're working on it.
- All right.
- Absolutely, we continue to persevere.