My fears happened last night. I have a knee injury. I came down awkardly on a kick and my leg jammed a bit and something just felt “funny.” I finished class without any real problems but when I got home my knee was killing me. This morning, I can barley bend it. I guess I’ll go get an MRI and see if surgery will be required.
Has anything ever happened to you guys? If so, how long before you were back to training? Any residual effects?
My knee is busted too. I accidentally slammed it with a staff yesterday. :mad:
I tore some ligaments in my knee a while back. Doctor said 4-6 months for healing, but it only took about two until I could do almost everything. For a while afterward the knee hurt because of bruises on the bone, and the leg was weaker after not moving it much, but other than that everything turned out fine.
Edit: What you described feeling is kind of like what happend to me. It felt mostly weird, but there was definitely pain. A few hours later it had swolen and was hard to move. The more time that passed, the worse it got.
That’s my worst fear…I’m not very flexible anyway, and I am afraid a knee injury could happen very easily.
Sorry to hear that, Judge. Hope it’s not serious.
Mine are iffy from age and bad genetics.
rogue, are you saying you were genetically engineered??? 
has anyone ever trained hard and not mucked up something?
my hips are probably only a few years away from being replaced.
I’m going to try and hold out for bionics.
I have a tear in the meniscus of my right knee from excess training. At one point the pain was complete debilitating. I saw two doctors. One immediately recommended surgery. The other, an althetic injury specialist, told me to try to control it first since once you get cut, the pain goes away but you lose something (“we treat people, not injuries”).
So anyway, I can no longer use many of the kicks I spent about a decade learning. I’d say it took away 30% of my martial vocabulary…mostly wushu kicks and such (hook kicks, roundhouse kicks blah blah).
Stretching, meditation, and re-learning how to use my body more effectively and gently has reduced the pain to a slight reminder maybe once every few months. But understand, I had to completely change my training, which is an interesting process.
SB, yep. I’m kinda a big guy so my kicks have never been anything pretty to look at but I could surprise a few people who didn’t expect me to have any high kicks at all…but in the last 3 years I’ve had to adjust as well. I just can’t get the feet up there as fast anymore and so don’t risk it. and, I only had a few good tricks as it was:(
I have heard that the less it hurts, the more serious it is. Hopefully that is true in your case. Good luck.
We’ll see. It’s been pretty tight today, but it feels some better. I’ll give it until Monday and if I don’t see any improvement then I schedule a visit with a doctor.
I have an MCL injury, one year with crutches( two, then one) because I could’nt take the full rehabilitation program in the right time.
You need RICE( Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation), one month with inmovilization, a plaster or a brace. Then you got to develop the surrounding muscles like vastus medialis and quads. The strong you get it, the fast the rehabilitation.
Now I have some meniscus hassles, and have to use a brace when training.
Hope it isn’t too serious to you.
Knee Injury
I’d see an sports orthopedic doctor first. Most orthos have some type of acute injury walk-in clinic so you don’t have to make an appointment weeks down the road. A specialist can do several manual tests in their office to determine what the injury may be (without ordering a $1000 MRI) that general physicians are not really trained to spot. With the swelling, something tore, but it could just be a sprain that wouldn’t require surgery. Even if it feels better in a few days, I’d still want to eliminate a torn menisucs (cartlidge) or an ACL injury that could come back to haunt you down the road.
Say, are you with Master Mullins?
Problems of bipedalism,I tell you.
I´m all too weak for knuckle walking though.
had a bad knee, Sifu set it using some kind of kung fu sportsmedecine..it was fuct up and the doctors were gonna do surgery. Now…its great.
Originally posted by ewallace
I have heard that the less it hurts, the more serious it is.
If you have a broken leg or any other bone, it doesn’t hurt so much at the beginning, because the body tries to kill some of the pain by itself by becoming numb. Later on it’ll hurt like hell though. But of course, if you step on the foot when it’s broken it’ll cause a serious stinging pain.
Judge, don’t let those expensive “Quacks” cut your knee open! You will regret it for the rest of your life, bro.
I’d say, have your MRI/X-Ray so you know exactly what’s there. But find yourself a wholistic practicioner of any variety (Acupressure, acupuncture, rolfing, etc) so that they will help the body heal itself.
I suffer from extremely painful tendonitis in both knees, and thanks to my demanding training schedule (kung fu/qi gung, mountain biking, running, and 100 push ups each day), I think I have torn the meniscus (sp) in my left knee.
When the last Ortho doc told me that the best they could do for me was to cut the tendon and restretch it, I knew I was going to lose full extension of both knees…I left skid marks out of his office! :o
Unfortunately as we get older, the best you can really do is to manage the pain. I use heated Dit Da Jow every morning on both knees - before I train, and after I train. I can tell you honestly, I have seen better results from that, than any medication I have taken.
Mainly just stay active. You’ll have to cut out the kung fu for a while, but you could always walk or swim. Even a little bicycling can help.
Good luck, bro.
Take 2-3 weeks off training. DON’T try to “test” the leg during this time. Take Glucosamine, Chondroitin and Omega 3, along with Ibuprofen 400mg three times a day (with food) for the first week. Then do plenty of static stance work and some light stretching to build up the muscle around the knee. Then try to do some light, controlled kicking and stepping. If it’s still a problem seek help.
Also, see if you can walk in a tight circle. If you can’t, you need to see an orthopaedic surgeon.
walk the walk??
Hey if you can’t walk the walk then perhaps you can at least talk the talk. These guys have some good general info that might come in useful.
Cheers, R