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What Is The Reason For Pain Behind The Knee And Calf?
A week ago I began to have pain behind my left knee and calf. It is extremely painful to put pressure on the leg especially going up and down stairs. There is some knee pain in the front as well, but mostly in the back. It is behind the knee and slightly below it. It hurts to get up initially when putting pressure on the knee. It feels better when I stand up and stretch it out a little, but I can t walk for long without it hurting.
Fri, 22 Apr 2016
hi,
thank you for providing the brief history of you.
A thorough musculoskeletal assessment is advised.
As by history i can understand that will clinical musculoskeletal assessment of the knee, the soft tissue injury can be determined, also the MRI may need to have an inner look to the soft tissues. Usually due to ligament injury within the knee joint, leads to the symptoms you are facing now. Following the advice of the ortho will help you to get ease of symptoms and later stages physical therapy will be advised to strengthen the muscles. As to avoid the load on the ligaments.
Usually, in my clinical practice such symptoms come with meniscal or ACL injury, they respond well to physical therapy and 3-4 weeks of time the optimum results are achieved.
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
thank you for providing the brief history of you.
A thorough musculoskeletal assessment is advised.
As by history i can understand that will clinical musculoskeletal assessment of the knee, the soft tissue injury can be determined, also the MRI may need to have an inner look to the soft tissues. Usually due to ligament injury within the knee joint, leads to the symptoms you are facing now. Following the advice of the ortho will help you to get ease of symptoms and later stages physical therapy will be advised to strengthen the muscles. As to avoid the load on the ligaments.
Usually, in my clinical practice such symptoms come with meniscal or ACL injury, they respond well to physical therapy and 3-4 weeks of time the optimum results are achieved.
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
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