4 othopedist visits (2 different doctors at 2 different clinics), 1 MRI, 5 PT visits, 11 chiropractor visits, 1 osteopath visit and thousands of $$$ later, I finally know what is causing the pain in my right knee. It's my meniscus and/or the little coronary ligaments that attach the meniscus to the leg. I'm amped.
However, I was stunned to learn that my hamstring tendons look perfect on ultrasound (no inflammation/fluid, scarring...no tendinosis!). Everyone was tellling me, hamstring, hamstring, hamstring. It's hamstring tendinitis. It's hamstring tendinosis. It takes 100 years to heal. Blah blah blah. But you can't challenge a stubborn, arrogant doctor.
All along, I have been saying that I had a gut feeling that it wasn't hamstring related (cite: Rant).
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So what needs to be done to fix the meniscus?
i'm overnighting the MRI to him, and depending on what he sees, i could do prolotherapy, which is an injection of medicine at the site of the injury. if that doesn't work, i could get the knee scoped and any tear repaired.
in any event, i will be running long again in pretty short order.
So happy you have found the root of the problem. Now ... on to recovery!!
(also, interesting that you knew all along that it wasn't what you were being told. we definitely have an intuition about our own bodies that should not be discounted.)
Thanks!
My physical therapist from a few months ago was thinking that it was meniscus-related and went back to the orthopedist to discuss this with him. He was adamant that it was hamstring tendinitis. I then got angry that the PT even gave me her opinion, but it turns out that she was right.
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