Symptoms of knee meniscus injury

Meniscus injury is generally caused by heavy physical labor or strenuous exercise. Generally speaking, there will be severe pain in the joints, and some joints will be locked and unable to straighten. Generally, there will be blood or fluid accumulation in the knee joint. If there are obvious symptoms, timely symptoms should be reported, and relevant diagnosis and treatment should be carried out in time. We should avoid joint movement and straighten the joint. We can temporarily fix it with a splint. At the same time, we should go to the hospital for relevant physical examinations and magnetic resonance imaging to observe the severity of the meniscus injury. Conservative treatment of 1st and 2nd degree injuries. The plaster should be fixed for four to six weeks, and then functional exercises should be strengthened.

What should I do if my joint meniscus is injured?

Meniscus injuries are divided into 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree injuries. Meniscus injuries and injury mechanisms are generally caused by internal and external valgus, internal and external rotation, and excessive flexion and extension of the knee joint. For 1st and 2nd degree meniscus injuries, we can perform non-surgical treatment and local knee immobilization. The affected limb should avoid walking and weight-bearing within a short period of time, about 4 to 6 weeks, avoid strenuous exercise of the knee joint, and pay attention to avoid some exercises that require weight-bearing on the knee joint, such as climbing stairs, climbing mountains, and squatting. In clinical practice, deep third-degree meniscus injuries are often difficult to heal on their own, and usually require minimally invasive meniscus plasty and hemimeniscus resection under arthroscopy, or even meniscus replacement.

What kind of plaster should be used for meniscus injury?

After a meniscus injury, choose an anti-inflammatory and analgesic plaster for treatment. After a meniscus injury, symptoms of pain and swelling may occur, so the plaster can effectively relieve the symptoms. However, due to differences in individual physiques and different degrees of injury, the treatment methods are not exactly the same. Depending on the degree of meniscus injury, conservative treatment, comprehensive treatment with drugs or plasters, physical therapy, and some functional exercises can be used to promote physical recovery. If the meniscus injury is severe, surgical treatment is required.