Hi, I'm new here and I have a situation that may be of interest.
I'm looking for info, not really a solution on my locking knee and what feels like dislocating fibula heads.
About 6 times in my life I have locked my right knee.... Started happening a few years ago. In a certain posture...say moving from a pigeon pose position forward to half kneeling, my right knee has locked. It locks at about 90 degrees and I cant move it more than a couple of degrees without feeling like I'm going to mash up my meniscus.
When it locks there is a large clunk at the fibula head... It feels like it almost dislocates, but it never does. Just locks. It unlocks when it chooses to(for no apparent reason), and there is no clunk back or anything noticeable. It has locked for a few seconds and last time it was 45minutes. Knee hurts a little for about a week after.
My left knee does something similar if I try to sit with my soles of feet together and knees are well past 90 degrees of flexion. The fibula head clunks and I have to straighten the leg. Never locked the left, but I've had a pretty significant clunk.
I've had a previous lateral meniscetomy on the left and the left knee clunked like that when I was a kid.
I had a previous ACL and medial meniscus repair on the right knee about 20 years ago. Well before this locking started.
I'm not convinced the meniscus on the right is torn and causing the lock.... I could be wrong, but there is a small about of discussion about the fibula subluxing and causing this. I also read in threads on somasimple that subluxation is not a thing, so is it a sort of dislocation?
Or am I full of shit and my meniscus is torn? Either way, I'm not going to do much about it. I just avoid the position that causes the lock. I am curious if anyone has any experience with this. I think meniscus could be a red herring in some of the cases I've heard on the net.
I'm looking for info, not really a solution on my locking knee and what feels like dislocating fibula heads.
About 6 times in my life I have locked my right knee.... Started happening a few years ago. In a certain posture...say moving from a pigeon pose position forward to half kneeling, my right knee has locked. It locks at about 90 degrees and I cant move it more than a couple of degrees without feeling like I'm going to mash up my meniscus.
When it locks there is a large clunk at the fibula head... It feels like it almost dislocates, but it never does. Just locks. It unlocks when it chooses to(for no apparent reason), and there is no clunk back or anything noticeable. It has locked for a few seconds and last time it was 45minutes. Knee hurts a little for about a week after.
My left knee does something similar if I try to sit with my soles of feet together and knees are well past 90 degrees of flexion. The fibula head clunks and I have to straighten the leg. Never locked the left, but I've had a pretty significant clunk.
I've had a previous lateral meniscetomy on the left and the left knee clunked like that when I was a kid.
I had a previous ACL and medial meniscus repair on the right knee about 20 years ago. Well before this locking started.
I'm not convinced the meniscus on the right is torn and causing the lock.... I could be wrong, but there is a small about of discussion about the fibula subluxing and causing this. I also read in threads on somasimple that subluxation is not a thing, so is it a sort of dislocation?
Or am I full of shit and my meniscus is torn? Either way, I'm not going to do much about it. I just avoid the position that causes the lock. I am curious if anyone has any experience with this. I think meniscus could be a red herring in some of the cases I've heard on the net.
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