What is the best thing to do for a torn meniscus?
What is the best thing to do for a torn meniscus?
Rest the knee. Limit activities to include walking if the knee is painful. Use crutches to help relieve pain. Ice your knee to reduce pain and swelling. Do it for 15-20 minutes every 3-4 hours for 2-3 days or until the pain and swelling is gone.
What movements can you do with a torn meniscus?
The patient should avoid pivoting and squatting and should work on keeping the quadriceps muscles strong. If the swelling and pain have not resolved in 6 weeks, they usually won’t without surgical intervention.
What is a positive Lachman maneuver?
A positive Lachman test or pivot test is strong evidence of an existing anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear, and a negative Lachman test is fairly good evidence against that injury. Although widely used, the anterior drawer is the least helpful maneuver for diagnosing an ACL tear.
Does the McMurray test rule out a meniscus injury tear?
According to some sources, the sensitivity of the McMurray test for medial meniscus tears is 53% and the specificity is 59%. In a recent study, clinical test results were compared with arthroscopic and/or arthrotomy findings as reference.
Can you bend your knee with a meniscus tear?
Individuals with a meniscus tear often complain of pain along the joint line. They often have pain or weakness with bending the knee and sometimes they have a catching or locking sensation.
Can you make a torn meniscus worse?
If you have a mild ache during the run, or a mildly sore knee after a run then you can often continue running. There is very little risk that running will worsen the tear. Meniscus tears can always worsen… remember, this is a process of degeneration.
Why is the Lachman better than anterior drawer?
The Lachman test is more accurate diagnostically than the anterior drawer test, although it’s used less often. The newer lever sign test may prove useful in primary care.
What is pivot shift test?
A pivot shift can be used to assess the combined tibio-femoral internal rotation and anterior tibial translation when the ACL is deficient. There are two main components of the pivot shift test: translation – anterior subluxation of the lateral tibial plateau. rotation – rotation of the tibia relative to the femur.