Swollen Left Knee

OK - now I can reply - you may not have to have the spinal fusion. On http://www.backfixbodywork.com see home page menu on right side - look down a couple screens to the back testimonials. Then look further a bit to fixing accumulated shortness and improving athletic performance. Especially see the second, third and fifth and sixth sections of Fixing accumulated shortness. Try to read it all tho. You have the space by your vertebrae most probably because your fascial soft connective tissue of the legs and pelvis-abdomen is too short and is pulling your bone positions forward into too tight a curve and the bones slip out of position. If all your disks are intact, there is a high probability that the vertebrae can be manipulated and even self adjusted with yoga, IF you get the other fascia much much longer back to the lengths they used to be properly. Your body is inherently designed to have the lengths of the muscles balanced with the lengths of the bones. It is the fascial putty that gets bunched up thru effort and distorted position we put ourselves into - it gets shorter - but can easily be relengthened with hands on and with the proper kind of stretching movement that is very easy to learn and do. But when the fascia is short, it definitely always pulls bones, including vertebrae, away from the balanced muscle length - bone length arrangement. This can be restored - see those two articles and also, a half screen above them go to the Back Fix Book menu link and on the menu read it all and click on the articles off there. You will learn a tremendous amount and give yourself even mental hope and another way to solve this problem you have that is really very common with millions of people, and that has been corrected this bodywork and stretching way in a straightforward manner without too much cost. The method also makes us much looser and more flexible all over. And it lasts a long time, especially if you do a lot of enjoyable stretching, -- on the home page menu there is a blurb, link is 3rd one down from the sunburst, on a stretching method you can learn that has helped a lot of people with back and other problems - also see on Free Articles page the stretching tips article. Email me anytime if you like for more free info and I will also talk with you for free.

I am looking at how to unravel your problem - give me a day or so. It DEFINITELY is a structurally oriented issue. Lou

I know how discouraged you feel. I've had my tkr Mar. 3 2003. IO have always had a place on my knee that I have quesioned that the nerve was pinched during the surgery. I've seen a chiropractor for my sciatic nerve, ut am still experiencing serious problems - ex. knee swelling, pain going up stairs or with a quick turning of my foot, pain from my upper leg to my big toe that feels like a "charlie horse" with a tingling in my toe. My doctor has me on anti inflammatory and says its Synovitis. I think its a pinched nerve. I can press on the outside of my knee in one spot & feel the nerve run down my leg. Let me know what other symptoms you have.

Help...I have had swelling of my left knee for 6 weeks now. I have been on Bextra for 2 weeks with no imporvement. I have pain in the knee when I walk and have also developed a noticable limp. Both legs ache now b/c the good one is working overtime. Ortho says MRI to rule out meniscus tear. Also, ortho noticed a huge loss of strength in my left leg and foot. Wants MRI of back to see if I have a pinched nerve. What next? Anyone have any idea what could be causing the swelling? I have had no injury. Just woke up with swelling about 6 weeks ago and now I have pain when I walk. HELP!!!