See a Physio or Orthopedic surgeon?
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Hi
Story is this
About 2 years ago I tore my ACL in my knee. I eventually saw a surgeon on the NHS who, after an MRI scan, told me my tear was not bad enough for surgery and I was better off trying physio.
I did physio on the NHS as well as eventually seeing 2 other private physios. I stopped seeing my last physio around Feb this year (mainly due to laziness!)
I suffered a lot of muscle wasteage and I built this up a lot and I have been playing football now for about a yearr My knee generally feels fine and whilst I know it will never be perfect I still feel a little looseness in it. I know I could still get more from physio.
What I effectivley want is an expert to assess it as it is now, tell me if there is any room for improvement etc. I am fairly sure for example that some muscles in my injuredleg are still weaker than the good leg, so I would love to have this tested properly (anyone tried isokinetic testing?)
I really wnat to see someone who is really good and am willing to pay for it.
I am a browser of the kneeguru forum (and will prob ask this question on there evtnually) and have found a couple of specialist knee clinics I could go to.
Question is do I need to see a surgeon, who I assume knows it all, but do they actually only assess if surgery is needed and do the surgery? Would they just refer someone like me to a physio?
Or do I need to just see a physio who can assess it and recommend me more exercises?
My last physio was good but I just wonder if there is anywhere else I can go for more extensive testing, like isokinetic, which my normal physio doesn't have access to.
Any thoughts?
Story is this
About 2 years ago I tore my ACL in my knee. I eventually saw a surgeon on the NHS who, after an MRI scan, told me my tear was not bad enough for surgery and I was better off trying physio.
I did physio on the NHS as well as eventually seeing 2 other private physios. I stopped seeing my last physio around Feb this year (mainly due to laziness!)
I suffered a lot of muscle wasteage and I built this up a lot and I have been playing football now for about a yearr My knee generally feels fine and whilst I know it will never be perfect I still feel a little looseness in it. I know I could still get more from physio.
What I effectivley want is an expert to assess it as it is now, tell me if there is any room for improvement etc. I am fairly sure for example that some muscles in my injuredleg are still weaker than the good leg, so I would love to have this tested properly (anyone tried isokinetic testing?)
I really wnat to see someone who is really good and am willing to pay for it.
I am a browser of the kneeguru forum (and will prob ask this question on there evtnually) and have found a couple of specialist knee clinics I could go to.
Question is do I need to see a surgeon, who I assume knows it all, but do they actually only assess if surgery is needed and do the surgery? Would they just refer someone like me to a physio?
Or do I need to just see a physio who can assess it and recommend me more exercises?
My last physio was good but I just wonder if there is anywhere else I can go for more extensive testing, like isokinetic, which my normal physio doesn't have access to.
Any thoughts?
Mojoo, I know my surgeon did deffinately advise on what was best and did not repair my partial rupture ACL as he said it was better then a repair, this was diagnosed following arthroscopy.
This was incombination with seeing a specalist physio who deals in knees, both pre and post for a varity of knee problems ranging from ACL/PCL/MPFL + other reconstruction, meniscus repair, mircorfracture.
He will video the patient running etc and send video to surgeon if required to speed up diagnosis.
Where are you based?
This was incombination with seeing a specalist physio who deals in knees, both pre and post for a varity of knee problems ranging from ACL/PCL/MPFL + other reconstruction, meniscus repair, mircorfracture.
He will video the patient running etc and send video to surgeon if required to speed up diagnosis.
Where are you based?
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