Knee pain when playing basketball

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It has definitely gotten better since then but I still limp when I walk because I can't extend my knee fully in either direction. It seems to hurt the most when I bend my knee as if I was trying to touch my butt with my foot. Like I said, no swelling or bruising. What kind of injury could this be???? I'm worried because I can't afford insurance and don't have much money(I am a poor college student) to get an MRI, etc. Any input or advice would be appreciated, thanks world.

I can feel rubbing and clicking in my knee when I walk. What is wrong with my knee? Should I still be playing basketball or will it make it worse?

I have pain behind my right knee cap. The pain is most severe when I stretch my right leg by straightening it out. This pain started about 10 days ago while playing basketball. I don't remember a specific injury while playing. The pain just seemed to start. I played through to the end of the game and then quit. The pain subsided after a week or so. I ran 2 miles yesterday pain free during the run, but my knee has become sore today.

Now only my right knee hurts but i keep feeling my left knee as somewhat vurnelable cause almost everytime i squat and come up both my knees make a cracking sound (especially my right). Sometimes when i went to play basketball when i made a high vertical jump i would feel extreme pain inside one of my knees. I went to a doctor and he told me that it was because of sitting many hours in front of my pc with my knees bent a lot (which is true).

As the topic states, I get knee pain in the back of my knee when jumping off one leg while playing basketball. However, the back story should help explain things. About three years ago I rolled my ankle a number of times over the course of a couple of months. It was to the point where I favored it and just started jumping off my opposite, strong leg. This worked for the most part. However, I still managed to roll my weak ankle incidentally while playing from time to time.

im a 17 year old male and i have had a history of knee pain. it started when i was around 12 and its been coming and going ever since. i play basketball and its hurts sometimes when i jump. swimming and climbing the stairs are not easy either. please help.

But, almost as soon as I start walking again the pain become almost unnoticeable. Yes, I use knee braces. They allow me to play basketball and other sports. But, without them I might as well take up golf. lol No surgery. No hip pain. No ankle pain due to this injury.

I have been having bad knee pain recently. I injured it 20 years ago and when it rains i have always had mild pain, but recently its been almost unbearable. Do you think i've injured something or Is there something I can take for the pain. I've tried Tylenol and Ibuprofen and neither work. Please advise.

What my problem is, whenever I try to walk in my knees(sometimes in bed when i try to crawl) i get pain. When there is pressure applied in lower part of my kneecap during kneeling. The pain is not so intense, but its hard to stay in same position. Also when I go up and down (action done during dead lift in gym) I get pain when I am completely up, when there is stretch in knee cap during standing position. There is pain only in few times( 4 or 5), then I don't feel so pain.

I also played volleyball for 3 years some of which I did not have knee pads for diving. I played basketball for 3 years but stopped once my knees started to give out when attempting to run across the court. I used to ride my bike a lot when I was a kid. I recall the pain in my knees starting I believe when I was 11 years old. I was riding my bike down a bridge when a car came out of the alley at the end and hit me. He ran over the front half of my bicycle pinning me to the curb under my bike.

I used to play a lot of basketball and running in the past, suddenly I injured my tibia in a basketball game. That was when I was 18 and now I'm 20 and I still feel pain only when engage in sports. Icing temporary relieves it but doesn't cure it. What's does this sound like. Could it be possibly Osgood Schlatters disease?

I use to play a lot of basketball and football I am now 35. Last wk I was playing basketball and when I came down from jumping I had a real sharp pain in my knee and could not continue. Around the top of my knee cap is tender and hurts and when I put pressure on my knee getting out the car or anything I get sharp tack like pains under my knee cap and sometimes on the side of my knee and it aches a little, I have really slight swelling but I am able to walk.

She plays basketball and for the past week or so she has been experiencing pain behind her knee. It generally happens when she's active and at night in bed she says. The pain comes and goes and it's really starting to effect her ability to play basketball and walk. When the pain starts she can't put any pressure on it and can barely walk. To my knowledge she has not hurt herself while playing.

Been having a problem with my outside knee when i play basketball. i play about 2 or more hours at a time, everything is fine the first hr or hour and a half. After that the side of my knee begins to hurt and after a while i cant put any weight on it. My lateral movement is almost completely gone and then i can barely walk. Afterwards that whole night im in severe pain, worse after sitting for a bit and trying to stand up.

I would say that the combination of tendinitis and knee pain caused me to play basketball at about 50% and with nearly excruciating pain. On occasion my knees would give out--most of the time after playing a game. After resting them for two weeks now, my knees feel slightly better. So I went to this guy and he explained to me that I had some minor tendinitis(yeah right, when playing I'm nearly crying) and couldn't explain the pain throughout my knee and just said it was overuse.

This stupid knee is driving me insane!!! When I was in high school, about 12 years ago, we were playing basketball in gym class. Somebody fell and rolled onto my leg, which forced my knee to bend the wrong way. Ever since then, every few months or so, I get a horrible pain in that knee. I can walk fine, but to bend it (going up stairs, getting out of the car, getting up from a chair), is really bad.

And its still swollen especially after athletic activity. I sprained it playing basketball. And i still play. I just want to know if something is wrong or if the injury was worse than i was told and if i need to see a doctor.

The pain comes when I jump, squat, lunge, etc. which causes playing basketkball very difficult. The pain is worst directly on my kneecap. I went to the doctor about it in March and they really didn't tell much except to ice it and take ibuprofen which I have been doing often for the past 2 months with very little activity on it. That didn't really help too much so I decided to start working out on it doing some light jump exercises on it, too maybe strengthen the muscles.

ive torn ligaments in my right knee from football in the 80's, and when i play basketball, lay-ups and jumping, my left knee is very painful after playing basketball. why is it my left knee instead of my right knee? ive been icing it for days and after every outing , the same thing total soreness and little swelling. what countermeasures must i do before hand?

I get pains in both my knees. They start to hurt (mainly on the sides) when I leave them in the same position for too long, when I'm standing on them for too long (sometimes it can only take 5/10mins for this to happen), they usually get worse when it's cold. I am 16 and have been playing soccer for the past 12 years, I am, well was very active and although I am not as active as I used to be I still play soccer and play sport for my school teams including basketball, soccer and cricket.

I had Knee Pain and swelling after I snapped or popped my knee playing Basketball two weeks ago. I went to see my Orthopedic doc and he recommended MRI. My MRI results are as follows: Impression: 1. Small focus of bone bruising in the anterolateral femoral condyle in association with almost complete tear of ACL. Sprain of the lateral collateral ligaments and lateral retinaculum with partial tear of the insertion of the vastus lateralis muscle. 2.

I was diagnosed with bipartite patella a year ago. During that year i was in alot of pain, since i play soccer and basketball. In soccer you run alot, and i did run alot. I never got put on the bench, but i was in so much pain. There really is nothing you can do about it besides surgery. I am getting surgery done on it, and i am happy that the pain will be gone.

There is no swelling or redness, not arthritic or painful when it rains. The pain will go away generally when I am on level ground for a while. Any ideas what this might be and a remedy. I don't feel like I can hike anymore if this continues without treatmen.

Actually, it comes back everytime i do an activity. Pain comes within a minute of a run. I used a knee brace a played through a few games of pick-up basketball, but thats with lookin like a fool running with a limp. Yes its tolerable, but it does hurt! I can also have pain when i rest my knee on certain positions even while sitting down (i can feel some now as i type with my legs crossed). I only consuletd my doctor a couple of months ago (my fault).

When I was in high school, I was playing basketball and fell on the inside part of my right knee and it instantly went numb for about 10 minutes. I quit playing basketball because it did it for the rest of the year (I didn't see a doctor). Recently, I started playing again and the same thing happened. I fell and landed on the inside part of my right knee and pain shot up through the knee then it was numb instantly. I iced it for about 10 minutes and it felt better.

i woke up the next day and i noticed that when my knee was in one one position and i tried to either bend or extend it, i had trouble doing it. also when i stretch it out and either play football basketball or run it is fine but then if i go from an activity require running and say i go and sit down, when i try to extend it again i just feel pain and it feels like i have trouble doing it. I would like to know if it is too late to fix this and if their is a name for this condition.

I had an MRI on my left knee. I play basketball and was having some problems when i jump. I was having a sharp pain when I jumped my highest. The MRI said I had a small joint effusion. It also said I ahd an Horizontal Intrameniscal Grade 1 abnormality seen in the posterior body of the medial meniscus. It said this could concievably represent a small intramenical tear. My doctor gave a cortisone shot and said two come back in two weeks IF the pain was still there.

the only problem is when i lift my knee to starighten it, it makes a loud cracking noise and then the pain increase rapidy, ive been quiet lucky as its very rare i get pain from it but when i do my exercises i go from perfectly comfotable to in the worst pain possible.. i am very concerned as my knee is still very swollen and no matter what exercises i do to gain my muscles back in my leg it just dont want to gain any muscle and loose any of the swelling.....

Hello, About a month ago I hurt my knee playing basketball (landed wrong and felt a pop). Since then I have gone to many doctors because of the swelling and weak feeling of my joint. However, none of them have been able to give me a definitive answer. All have done the physical tests (Lachmans test, etc.) and cannot tell a difference between my bad and good leg.

Now my symptoms are occasional popping on or near the fibular head when playing basketball. I still have weakness in my biceps femoris and pain much milder pain when flexing it. The worse is a grinding and popping sound that I've had when climbing stairs and doing lunges over my left leg. In my research this seems consistent with a proximal tibiofibular dislocation, but my orthopaedic doc seems to think I just need to rub dirt on it and get over it. Any suggestions?

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