I have searched the forum but was unable to answer my query, so here goes....
My left knee is a mess. I ruptured my PCL 33 years ago (rugby), damaged my medial cartilage twice (skiing), and a year ago managed to tear a small rip in the cartilage around the anterior horn (old age). Oh, and I also have pitting under the kneecap (Chondomalacia?). But I can live with these.
It’s my fat pad which is causing me real grief. For over a year now I have had pain below my knee cap. It hurts when I stand for a long time, when I sit for a long time, when I run downhill and after I cycle uphill. It’s not the patella - it’s the fat pad below the tendon at the front of my knee.
It’s been a year now and it hasn’t really improved. I had 5 months of intensive PT, but most of the exercises given me by the PT seem to aggravate it. I ended up completing a 19 week 80;20 training programme without too much difficulty, but now the season is over it’s time to sort this out.
My surgeon wants to take a look and snip out any bad bits. I have no problem with doing this for cartilage, but if I recall correctly the fat pad has loads of nerves and the interwebs seem full of horror stories with respect to similar operations.
Has anyone on ST had an operation for this?
My left knee is a mess. I ruptured my PCL 33 years ago (rugby), damaged my medial cartilage twice (skiing), and a year ago managed to tear a small rip in the cartilage around the anterior horn (old age). Oh, and I also have pitting under the kneecap (Chondomalacia?). But I can live with these.
It’s my fat pad which is causing me real grief. For over a year now I have had pain below my knee cap. It hurts when I stand for a long time, when I sit for a long time, when I run downhill and after I cycle uphill. It’s not the patella - it’s the fat pad below the tendon at the front of my knee.
It’s been a year now and it hasn’t really improved. I had 5 months of intensive PT, but most of the exercises given me by the PT seem to aggravate it. I ended up completing a 19 week 80;20 training programme without too much difficulty, but now the season is over it’s time to sort this out.
My surgeon wants to take a look and snip out any bad bits. I have no problem with doing this for cartilage, but if I recall correctly the fat pad has loads of nerves and the interwebs seem full of horror stories with respect to similar operations.
Has anyone on ST had an operation for this?