- menisci play an important role in absorbing force
- Symptoms
- Swelling or stiffness
- Pain, especially when twisting or rotating the knee
- Difficulty fully straightening the knee
- “Locked” feeling when trying to move the knee
- Medial meniscus > lateral meniscus
- treatment
- Same as general sprain
- Stretch and strengthening on quadriceps and hamstrings
- Exercise
- Unhappy triad = Triple knee injury
- The unhappy triad, also known as a blown knee among other names, is an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament, and meniscus.
- Injury is most often sustained when a lateral (from the outside) force impacts the knee while the foot is fixed on the ground. The strong valgus or rotary force to the knee tears the ACL, MCL, and meniscus all together.