I'm a 14 year old girl and a freshman in high school and ive been driven just about crazy with my knee issues. It's been happening since I was about 7 years old. My knee would randomly dislocate out of place and pop back before I could hit the ground. I've been left with numerous amounts of bruises and scrapes from falling but I didn't actually see a doctor until a good amount after it began. I have a history of bad knees in my family (the same thing apparently happened to my dad) but he said that he had "grew out of it" by doing exercise. Once I saw the doctor, a couple years ago, they told me the two options that most people were presented with- knee surgery or physical therapy. Like most, my family and I wanted to try physical therapy. After going there for a good amount of time by knees became better and the dislocation happened very rarely if any at all. It was great and my parents and my therapist believed I could stop sessions and go home, trying exercises by myself. Of course, life got in the way and I didn't have time to exercise as much as I'd like so my knee problems began to gradually come back. After two TERRIBLE years of dealing with it, I began therapy once again, having the same results. Around 2 months in, my therapist straight up asked me what I was still doing there considering my knee hadn't dislocated in a while. I had to stop sessions AGAIN and now I'm currently living almost a year without doing therapy. I faced many PE running days with embarrassment as I'd just fall out of nowhere and people wouldn't understand that I was actually hurt each time it happened. I really felt like I had to vent because it happened to me today when walking home from school and I'm so incredibly p****d off because no one close to me, including my family understands what I'm going through. After today's incident I truly had a mental breakdown and I just want to tell others who face this that they're not alone. This probably sounds very cheesy but it's the truth. I really hope that through lots of exercise and strengthening- physically and mentally- I'll be able to overcome this and not let it define me and the things that I do.
Have you been diagnosed with Osgood-Schlaters disease? My middle child (son) had it from about 10 til late teens. It appears to be gone now, he is turning 40 next month. Hope you find out what's wrong.
1st of all...you need to see a pediatric orthopedic Dr. Yes, I know, you are a big girl and don't want to go to a baby Dr. That I understand but those people specialize in people your age and know everything there is to know abound young bones and soft tissue (ligaments, tendons and all that stuff). Old peoples Dr s like ones I go to just aren't up on all the new stuff for developing joints. The second option, a sports medicine Dr. Get away from general medicine people and old peoples Dr s. Without proper diagnosis you will never get proper treatment. BTW, I've had 11 surgeries and 5 complete rehabss so I know a bit about ongoing problems. Been fighting them for 15 years and will till the day I die.
Hi Miraya -- sorry that you are going through all these problems at such a young age. You need to ask your parents to take you to a pediatric orthopedic, like oldfatguy1 suggested, so they can find out what is the cause of your problems and get the right treatment. Best of luck. J-21370