Thread: meniscus tear recovery

got a bucket handle to my meniscus last season and been easing onto the slopes this year. it wasnt trimmed out but repaired with sutures so the recov was longer. anyone have a similar injury and what was the recov like?

buddy of mine had to go back in because the it didn't take/readhere

Recovery took about 18 months. 6 months later it tore again, but not totally on the suture line. Dr. took it all out at that point.

I had a flap trimmed off and a miniscal cyst sucked out that had formed from the tear. I was riding my road bike in a week, generally against doctors orders. It was pretty darn solid in 6-8 weeks, only feeling pain in the extreme range of motion. Mine was a lateral tear, medial i've been told heels faster.

five weeks out from a mediall tear skipped surgery luckily has healed and I'm back in the saddle. been eating glucosamine msm and babying it. will ski cautiously the rest of the season...no tele..hope for the best

I had two tears in mine one medial one lateral. Lateral was in the white zone so it got trimmed. Medial was in the red so it's been stitched.

Injury was in February and surgery in July after 3 months of pt for strengthening (along with the fact that before I finally got my MRI in June that they changed their diagnosis from a tear in my patellar tendon).

I've really been taking it easy this season. Like really easy. 1 day a week and only about 5-6 runs per day. For some reason, I get a lot more comfort from teleing than I do from sking alpine. Don't ask me why.

I still wear a pretty sturdy brace when I ski (I did my acl, mcl, pcl and a meniscus tear a couple of years before this). Sometimes, though, I feel like the brace is limiting the ability of the muscles to strengthen themselves.

Best of luck on your recovery. It ain't easy, but it's got to be worth it, right?

im just going to post this in here instead of starting a new thread...

pretty sure i did my meniscus yesterday on aspen mountain. after the crash i would estimate i rode the gondola 6-7 more times and my knee felt fine, the only time i had any kind of pain whatsoever was when i would take of my skis and start walking. i still have almost no pain until i move or twist my knee in certain ways, when that happens i get a shooting sharp pain for a split second until i instinctively take my knee out of whatever position it was in that caused the pain.

doc appt is tomorrow, hoping some of you guys who have done this can shed some light on my situation and symptoms... does this sound familiar? maybe i just strained/sprained it?

normally i wouldn't be too concerned since i put over 20k of hard vertical on the knee after the crash, but living in a ski town i have heard many stories of people who had a torn meniscus and never realized it until they hurt something else in their knee like an acl or whatever

Jaytae: sounds exactly like when I tore mine last season. Took an akward fall at the beginning of a pow day and felt good enough to ski hard for the next 6+ hours. Got home and the knee was a little sore but nothing major, but the next day when I tried to go skiing it started hurting like a motherfucker, so I went to the doctor and found a torn meniscus.

My advice is to stay off it until you can get it looked at, I did a decent amount of damage that could have been avoided had I not gone skiing that next day.

Shit... I planned on taking 4-5 days off and seeing how it felt after that when skiing before making an appointment with the ortho but it sounds like that's not a good idea. Thanks for the insight.

dude give it a few days, if torn it is done torn and you deal, if not get back to riding easy and work your way back to good.
i ski on mcl & meniscus damaged knees alot, also fixed em during the offseason.
bobby

went to the ortho today, got x-rays and an exam done and after the exam the doc told me all of my ligaments are "rock solid" and nothing major was hurt, just a sprain/strain. stoked

sooo guess i was a bit late on getting to your case, sorry, glad for the positive diognosis.

Argh. Did a nice bucket handle tear in Chamonix a few weeks ago, got the MRI and surgery consult this week. Doc is pretty sure he'll trim it unless in the unlikely event the flap looks nice and fresh, which he says rarely happens. The torn flap is stopping me from extending my knee all the way, so something has to be done.

Any other alternatives to look into? Surgery is scheduled for Monday, I've been hobbling with a cane for 3 weeks and It's getting tiresome...