What are the symptoms of meniscus injury

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In life, many friends who like sports know that they must protect themselves, especially the meniscus. Enough meniscus is two crescent shaped fibrocartilage, which is located in the medial and lateral articular surface of tibial plateau. It mainly plays the role of transferring load and elastic buffer, so it is particularly easy to get meniscus. Due to the special structure of meniscus, it is difficult to heal after rupture and injury. If it takes a long time, it will damage joints and cause traumatic arthritis. What are the symptoms of meniscus injury? Now I'll introduce it to you

What are the symptoms of meniscus injury

The first is pain. If there is a crackling sound in the knee when the patient is injured, accompanied by tearing like pain, and the affected limb can not hold heavy, let alone walk, it is possible that the ligament may be completely torn or the meniscus may be damaged. Special attention should be paid.

Then there is the patient's knee swelling, if it is usually the knee sprain, swelling may be relatively light, limited to a certain place, such as meniscus injury is very serious, the patient's local swelling is larger, and there are subcutaneous ecchymosis and so on.

There is knee tenderness, sprain different parts will appear tenderness, such as in the tenderness point touch local tissue defect depression, it may be meniscus injury is more serious, in addition, the patient's knee joint activity will appear obstacles, we must pay attention to it.

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Finally, we want to say that meniscus plays an important role in transmitting load, maintaining stability and distributing synovial fluid. Once it breaks, it will form interference in the joint and affect the normal movement of the knee joint.