Symptoms of mild meniscus injury

Meniscus injury is a common disease in life. Most patients with meniscus injury suffer from synovial injury because they do not do warm-up exercises before activities. At this time, the patient's joints may bleed and hurt, so it is necessary to seek medical treatment in time. After seeing a doctor, it takes a certain amount of time to recuperate and not to over-exercise. So what are the clinical manifestations of mild meniscus injury?

1. When the meniscus is acutely injured, the synovial membrane of the inner wall of the joint capsule will be damaged, causing intra-articular bleeding and exudation. After a meniscus injury, the patient will experience severe joint pain, swelling, and inability to straighten the leg.

2 When the acute phase turns into the chronic phase, the patient will have pain in the joint space, especially when the joints are extended and flexed, the pain is very obvious. When patients walk or go up and down stairs, they will obviously feel weakness in their lower limbs and may even experience severe weakness. Patients often feel like they are about to fall, which will seriously affect their daily life and work.

3 As the disease progresses, due to the pain, the patient's activity time becomes less and less, which eventually leads to muscle atrophy, and the affected limb is significantly thinner than the healthy limb. In addition, some patients may experience joint locking, and they will suddenly become unable to move when walking, and the problem will only disappear after a slight movement. In addition, the patient will experience a popping sound when moving the knee joint.

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This is an introduction to the symptoms of meniscus injury. I hope everyone can understand. If you experience the above symptoms, you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible to avoid delaying the disease.

Causes of meniscus injury

The causes of meniscus injury can be roughly divided into two categories, one is caused by trauma and the other is caused by degenerative changes. The former is often caused by acute injury and violence to the knee joint. The knee joint is strongly everted or inverted, internally rotated or externally rotated when flexed.

What tests should be done for meniscus injury?

1. Ask about the knee injury, posture and post-injury function, whether there is joint locking and popping, etc. 2. During the physical examination, pay attention to whether the quadriceps are atrophied, whether there is tenderness in the joint space, whether the joint extension and flexion are limited, whether hyperextension and hyperflexion are painful, and whether the McBurney disease, grinding test, and gravity test are positive.

Diagnosis and differentiation of acute meniscus injury

Most patients have a clear history of knee sprain. After the injury, the knee joint has severe pain, cannot straighten automatically, and the joint is swollen. Tenderness in the knee joint space is an important indicator of meniscus injury. Most patients with meniscus injury have a history of obvious trauma of rotation adduction or abduction. Some patients have no obvious history of trauma but have symptoms of meniscus injury.

Most of them have a history of obvious trauma. In the acute phase, the knee joint has obvious pain, swelling and effusion, and joint flexion and extension are impaired. After the acute phase, the swelling and effusion can subside on their own, but the joint still hurts during activities, especially when going up and down stairs, going up and down hills, squatting and standing up, running, jumping, etc.