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I hurt my knee a few months ago, the doc said...but I am scarred what should I do?

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I slipped and fell in a grocery store like 3 months ago, I took the whole fall on my right knee. I have been to the doctors and have been to the specialist. I crushed the carteliage in my knee and possibly have torn it a little bit. Anyways, it still hurts a lot like all the time. The doctor recomends that I go to physical therapy but I have had a bad experience with pt before. What should I do? Is there anything that I can do for myself at home instead of going to pt? It is killing me and I don't want to take pain pills for the rest of my life. What should I do? Any ideas or suggestions out there? Please help.

Best Tip

Physical therapy may help you. Whether or not you should go depends on why you had a bad experience. Didn't like the PT, staff, clinic, location, etc? Obviously, you can go to another clinic. Ask your doctor who he recommends. Didn't like the treatment? The treatment will not necessarily be the same for this diagnosis, even if it was the same body part.

If your doctor is recommending physical therapy, you should go. Have your initial evaluation performed and then ask what the PT can do to help. There are modalities for pain and edema control & decreasing inflammation. Flexibility, ROM, and strengthening exercises may be performed and the PT will show you which are important & how to do them correctly. Whatever advice you get online here will not substitute for a evaluation and treatment by a PT.

Good luck.

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Sense you fell directly ON your knee, there is a chance that you've done a lot more than torn the cartilage. There ARE some Physical Therapy moves you can do at home, but the most you will have to have supervision just in-case if you fall and hurt yourself a second time ... and we don't want that.

Sitting on the floor with your leg completley stretched out with a firm caress behind your knee should relieve the pressure, and some pain.
Experience.