Any knee doctors out there that can tell me if my doctor is doing the right thing?On the 3rd I twirled around and dislocated my knee cap. My doctor had an x-ray done and I've had an immobilizer on for the last 3 weeks. Now he says that I will need surgery, but he says that in order to do the surgery I need to bend my leg. It's VERY painful, and I don't know if bending it may make it worse. He hasn't done an MRI yet, which I thought he was supposed to do as soon as the swelling went down. He says it's a medial something femoral ligament tear. I'm wondering, is it right that I should be bending this if it still seems to dislocate easily? (I was just sitting on my bed and it had the immobilizer on it and the knee cap popped out of place again twice. The doctor dissmissed it saying that that was next to immpossible, but I felt and saw it!) Shoudn't I have an MRI first to pinpoint the problem before trying to bend it? The knee cap still isn't in the "groove" it's supposed to be, the doctor said. So should I be moving it and taking the immobilizer off? Help!
- donald c
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