Early symptoms of meniscus injury?

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Meniscus injury is the injury of the knee joint, which brings great obstacles to the activities of patients. If the joint plate is seriously damaged, it will be difficult to turn the leg. What are the obvious symptoms of meniscus injury and the early symptoms of meniscus injury? Let's talk about it

Early symptoms of meniscus injury?

The location of tenderness is usually the location of the lesion, which is of great significance in the diagnosis and determination of the location of meniscus injury. During the examination, the knee was placed in the semi flexion position. In the medial and lateral space of the knee joint, along the upper edge of the tibial condyle, that is, the edge of the meniscus, the thumb was pressed point by point from head to back. There was fixed tenderness at the meniscus injury. Such as in the press at the same time, the knee passive flexion and extension or inside and outside rotation of the leg, the pain is more significant, sometimes can also touch the abnormal activity of the meniscus.

When the patient lies on his back, the examiner holds the lower leg and ankle with one hand, and holds the knee with the other hand to bend the hip and knee as much as possible, and then makes the lower leg abduction, external rotation and abduction, internal rotation, or adduction, internal rotation, or adduction, external rotation, gradually straighten. Pain or sound is positive, according to the pain and sound to determine the site of injury.

The knee joint will be strong passive hyperextension or hyperflexion, such as anterior meniscus injury, hyperextension can cause pain; If the posterior meniscus is injured, overflexion can cause pain.

matters needing attention

The diagnosis of meniscus injury is mainly based on medical history and clinical examination. Most of the patients have a history of trauma, and there are fixed pain and pressure energy in the joint space of the affected side. Combined with the comprehensive analysis of various examinations, most of them can make a correct diagnosis. For severe trauma patients, we should pay attention to check whether there are side collateral ligament and cruciate ligament injuries. For advanced cases, we should pay attention to check whether there is secondary traumatic arthritis.