Knee cap miniskirt: types of injuries, treatment

Menisci of the patella are crescent-shaped cartilages that are located at the sides of the knee joint. Their main functions are:

• fixation of the knee joint and preventing its excessive mobility;
• reduction of shock loads to which the cartilage covering the surfaces of the bones of the joint is exposed, thus preventing premature wear of the cartilage;
• preventing friction of the bones of the knee joint.

However, the injury of the meniscus is a phenomenonrelatively common, its common cause is a sharp and deep flexion in the knee joint. The most common injuries are athletes. There are several types of meniscus lesions.

Knee cap miniskirt: types of injuries

1. Tear, and in fact - a partial rupture of the meniscus. The most common form of damage to this element of the knee joint, it accounts for up to 50% of all cases of trauma. Partially tearing, the meniscus seems to be wedged between cartilages.
2. A complete detachment of the meniscus is the rarest, but at the same timeand the most difficult damage. As a result, a knee-cap miniskirt injury can either completely or partially separate from the joint, as if "hanging" inside the joint bag. Treatment of such injuries requires mandatory surgery.
3. Immediately pinching the meniscus with cartilage of the joint (40%).

Pain, swelling, immobility of the joint - all thesemanifestations are typical for many other injuries, so only a doctor can reliably confirm that the injured is affected by the minisk of the patella.

How to treat a meniscus injury?

The first thing an orthopedist does is palpationpainful node and find out the extent of its damage, you may need an MRI. The strategy of therapy largely depends on the type of injury, but there are still a number of general procedures that doctors use to restore the miniskirt of the patella. Treatment, as a rule, is long, often requires a radical solution. But first things first.

The primary task of the orthopedist isthe release of the meniscus from the cartilages that clamped it. An experienced traumatologist, manual therapist or orthopedist will be able to eliminate the pinching and return the mobility within 2-4 sessions. When, for one reason or another, a specialist does not manage to fix a meniscus, the patient is assigned a hardware traction (traction) of the joint. After the meniscus becomes in place (but not earlier), physiotherapy and ultrasound treatment, as well as exercise therapy, are prescribed. If conservative treatment does not bring the desired result, or the meniscus does not just jam or burst, but ruptured, then a decision is made whether to completely or partially remove the meniscus.

Knee cap miniskirt: treatment with folk remedies

People's medicine is also capable of helping to improve the meniscus. Not bad proved the following methods.

1. Daily 2-hour compresses from medical bile.
2. Two-month course of treatment with honey-alcohol compresses (daily for 2 hours).
3. Burdock compresses (daily for 8 hours until the symptoms disappear completely).
4. Remember that therapy at home is only possible if the injury is not complicated by the bias of the meniscus.

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