Training Meniscus injury, can I come back from it

[Thrawn33]

Don't make me dig up the pic of my ankle injury from Judo...I came back.

 

[Stoic1]

One of the absolute best ways to overcome a knee injury is to strengthen your muscles around it.

 

[TheMoa]

Sucks man. Why the PRP didnt work out?
I was saving money to go to Colombia to give it a shot, but now Im unemployed.
what the doc told you about surgery/plain rehab?

 

[Koya]

Sucks man. Why the PRP didnt work out?
I was saving money to go to Colombia to give it a shot, but now Im unemployed.
what the doc told you about surgery/plain rehab?

I couldn't make it to the appointment that day, called the doctor's office to change it to another day and then a couple days later they cancel my appointment and I get a message that I can't take any other one this year. Whatever.

I will see another doc this month.

Doc told me no surgery, and anyway I don't want surgery. Just shots and rehab.

Is it really cheaper in colombia ? By how much ? I looked in turkey but it wasn't cheap actually.

 

[Stoic1]

Cheap should not be your primary consideration when shopping for an orthopedic surgeon.

 

[TheMoa]

I couldn't make it to the appointment that day, called the doctor's office to change it to another day and then a couple days later they cancel my appointment and I get a message that I can't take any other one this year. Whatever.

I will see another doc this month.

Doc told me no surgery, and anyway I don't want surgery. Just shots and rehab.

Is it really cheaper in colombia ? By how much ? I looked in turkey but it wasn't cheap actually.

Oh, Im brazilian
Colombia is the closest place were it's avaliable (here in brazil you can only get it if is attached to a research study).
I've heard that for Americans you may get good shit in mexico, but I may be wrong. Didnt dig much in it this side of the globe since the dollar/real exchange rate is killing us in stuff like that 6x1.

Good look with the new doc, Its always good to see more than one profissional. Some guys may have some biases or are not up to date with this kind of shit (and the last 2 decades soft tissue threatment improved a lot).

btw my knee has been feeling great this year, I'm not pushing 100 on stuff (not doing pistol squats or crazy shit), but Im going hard and no pain/disconfort. On the other side of the coin... the neck has been a little troublesome, still avoiding a doc though

Cheap should not be your primary consideration when shopping for an orthopedic surgeon.

he's not looking for surgery, if I understood it correctly.

 

[Chama]

I have a meniscus injury (seriously. I had everything and this always evaded me. And now I've got it too) because of an accident. Long story short I was on my bike and a small truck hit me.

Did an MRI and the "internal meniscus" is damaged. Been told I need to do a second MRI because some problem with the first one I don't get exactly what. Anyway my knee hurts a lot since. It's been a month. I had a lot of knee problems but seriously this one is the worst of the worst.

I'm kind of bummed as I was getting back into jiu-jitsu despite the injuries and I planned to keep boxing which I've been doing since last year (I posted my smoker fights in the standup forum).

My goal was to have an MMA fight before I turn 40 (I'm 37).

I wanted to know if you guys had experience with meniscus injuries and if it ever heals ? I hope you don't have any experience of it yourself but maybe some of your training partners ? And you saw how it affected them ? Were they able to ever fight again after ?

I need hope. Feeling very down right now. Thanks.

Met a lot of people who went through surgery and literally came out walking a few hours later and had no major issue after.

Keep ya head up.

 

[Koya]

Oh, Im brazilian
Colombia is the closest place were it's avaliable (here in brazil you can only get it if is attached to a research study).
I've heard that for Americans you may get good shit in mexico, but I may be wrong. Didnt dig much in it this side of the globe since the dollar/real exchange rate is killing us in stuff like that 6x1.

Good look with the new doc, Its always good to see more than one profissional. Some guys may have some biases or are not up to date with this kind of shit (and the last 2 decades soft tissue threatment improved a lot).

btw my knee has been feeling great this year, I'm not pushing 100 on stuff (not doing pistol squats or crazy shit), but Im going hard and no pain/disconfort. On the other side of the coin... the neck has been a little troublesome, still avoiding a doc though

he's not looking for surgery, if I understood it correctly.

I'm not American btw I'm European hence why I looked into prp in turkey

Yeah just 10 months ago I used to pump pistol squats and dragon squat and was loading heavy front squat. My record was 11 pistol squat on the left side. Not anymore, I'm not touching it now.

Yeah seeing another doc is always helpful. Problem is that the costs go up very quickly.

Good luck with your neck, I had a herniated disc there some years ago, it took time but with strengthening my middle and lower trapezius it went away

 

[Koya]

Cheap should not be your primary consideration when shopping for an orthopedic surgeon.

There's a balance tho. Some expensive doc are over hyped. At least where I live

Met a lot of people who went through surgery and literally came out walking a few hours later and had no major issue after.

Keep ya head up.

Thanks for the encouragement. But I prefer to avoid surgery at all cost, if I can. It gives you relief short term but long-term you are more prone to get osteoarthritis

 

[Boomb]

One of the absolute best ways to overcome a knee injury is to strengthen your muscles around it.

Exactly.

I had surgery on my meniscus on 3rd of December (as I wrote in another thread) and yesterday I tried to run for the first time in about 8 month or so (only 2,6km, but still better than nothing). It was great, the only thing that really hurt is one of the muscles around the knee as it's probably still pretty weak, despite all the exercises I'm doing.

 

[Chama]

There's a balance tho. Some expensive doc are over hyped. At least where I live



Thanks for the encouragement. But I prefer to avoid surgery at all cost, if I can. It gives you relief short term but long-term you are more prone to get osteoarthritis

Bro, i dont know about that post surgery thing

You asked for advice.. I honestly tell you about these 2 amateur football players (ye yanks be calling it ' soccer ' ) who both had torned meniscus, which is a common injury in the sport, they both went trough the knife, the both recovered fast .

Cheers

 

[Koya]

Bro, i dont know about that post surgery thing

You asked for advice.. I honestly tell you about these 2 amateur football players (ye yanks be calling it ' soccer ' ) who both had torned meniscus, which is a common injury in the sport, they both went trough the knife, the both recovered fast .

Cheers

Yes, and you're right. It's good short term. But it will increase their risk of osteoarthritis long term. Which I don't want. Also docs said no surgery for now. See references: