Can your tear knee ligament and still walk with very minor pain?!


Question: Can your tear knee ligament and still walk with very minor pain!?
Can you tear a knee ligament and still be able to walk with no pain!? I was playing flag football and was goin one way and stopped to go the other and my cleat got stuck in the ground and my knee buckled!.Not to either side but the way its naturally supposed to bend!. I have very minor pain and can walk no problem but wanted to know if this is just a sprain or if i should go get it checked!.The minor pain is in the inside left of my right knee!.Had minor swelling the subsided the day after!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
if it is one of the cruciate ligaments (posterior or anterior) that has torn then you may well be able to walk with little pain!. in this case it sounds like the anterior cruciate ligament has been damaged!. if it has torn completely then the knee will feel very unstable and will tend to give way!. also, there will be swelling that appears quickly and mobility will be restricted!. basically, if you fully tear the anterior cruciate ligament you will know about it!.

if you have nothing like the above symptoms then it is most likely just a mild sprain or it is either the medial or lateral ligament that has some damage (on the sides of the knee) and this is nothing like as serious!. posterior ligament injuries are unusual without some heavy impact onto the front of the knee and are harder to damage as they are thicker!. if either of the cruciates has torn you would probably have felt it and there may well have been an audible popping sound!.

in your case i would say it is most likely that you have sprained the anterior cruciate ligament and should see a doctor about it just in case there is some minor tearing!. you will be given rehabilitation exercises to do which are advisable if there is some significant damage as not treating the problem may lead to more long-term knee problems!.

with a complete tear in the anterior cruciate ligament you would almost certainly be unable to walk without pain!. as well as this, the knee would probably give way a lot (in a similar way to that you described when you initially got the injury)!. this problem can occur with mild tears and sprains too, but it is not as common and will only last a week or so before rapidly improving!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

You may have sprain or partially torn your ACL!. Hopefully it will be fine, spontaneously healing if the damage is minimal!. Give it some rest and if it improves significantly, consider playing without cleats for a while!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Tearing a ligament even completely would not keep you from being able to walk although most of the time there would be significant swelling and painWww@Answer-Health@Com





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