After a visit to the specialist this morning and then an MRI this afternoon - it appears my long-awaited knee injury may finally have reared its ugly head. The injury was most likely caused by a combination of hyper-extension while kite-skiing and stress and fatigue from Ski Patrol tryouts - in addition to the years and years of mogul bashing and being a catcher for my highschool baseball team... I go in on Thursday to meet with the specialist again to read the MRI prints - we'll see what the word is. Her initial thoughts are that it is most likely a bucket handle tear:
From this website: www.kneeguru.co.uk
Circumferential or Longitudinal Tears
A circumferential tear extends along the length of the meniscus (along the circumference).
Such a tear renders the meniscus fairly incompetent, and the changed bio-mechanics of the knee may propagate the tear and prevent healing. These types of tear may not go through the full depth of the meniscus, but if they do, they are called 'bucket-handle- tears'.
The importance of the bucket-handle tear is that the 'handle' may flip over and be caught on the other side of the rounded condyle of the femur (rounded end of the thigh bone) and lock the joint, preventing full extension (straightening) and causing pain.
Each locking episode will stress the tear and cause it to get worse.
So - definitely some interesting developments as we prepare for a huge life change... YIKES.... oh and they also found an irregular heartbeat while taking my blood pressure. So I'm having a complete physical on Thursday to see what's going on with that.
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