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Topic Title: Tendinitis after microfracture
Created On: 07/27/2008 12:58 PM

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12/15/2008 07:06 PM

SanDiegoSteve

Posts: 7

There are cycles of rebuilding and overuse. Tendinitis seems to go with it.

Many times in my recovery (now at 16 months) I've had to take multiple week off. Some of that was going back to the basics.

15 miles on the bike at 15 weeks seems pretty aggressive to me. Remember, you lost both muscle and coordination. Get the thing back in balance and strengthen it, but don't push both at the same time. Tendons are tight and loosen slowly.

I see from the post time that it has again been a while, so I hope you are doing well.

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Rt. Knee
- Microfracture on 2 lesions (2.5x2.2 and 2.2x1.0) - July 2007
- Medial Meniscus - July 2007
- Cartilage removal - December 2002

my blog on surgery: http://www.podilato.com

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07/27/2008 02:54 PM

stakro

Posts: 20

Littleangel,

I am now 5 months post microfracture. I too started experiencing more pain around the time you are at. The ortho I was seeing at the time told me at my 4 month check that we knew the possibility was there that the microfracture didn't work and that I should come back in 3 months. So, a few days ago I went to see another ortho on my physicians referral who told me it looked to him like I've got a lot of scar tissue build up that is causing me a lot of my pain and making it so that I am unable to fully extend my knee when walking. I will be having another surgery on Aug 1 to (hopefully) take care of this. I never knew that scar tissue could cause so much pain. The thing is, he was the first ortho to actually listen to me. My other ortho kept passing it off as synovial inflammation.

So, hopefully your pain is just tendonitis and will get better soon. If not, keep after your docs so that the issue doesn't get ignored.

Good luck~

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07/27/2008 12:58 PM

littleangel

Posts: 8

Hi,
I'm about 13 weeks post-surgery from microfracture, and I've started experiencing significant pain all of the time. I have increased activity slightly...riding outside (only about 15 miles) and swimming (just started kicking but was using a pool buoy previously) with all of my p.t. exercises. My p.t. thinks that I've developed tendinits, and I was wondering what you all have done to help balance getting tendinitis vs. gaining functional strength in the knee. I feel like I can't progress forward b/c the tendinitis will flare up, but the lack of strength is causing it. I'm also feeling a lot of pain sitting, which is frustrating...any ideas?

I appreciate your help!
Little Angel

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