This is very interesting because all my life I've had this problem. My knee sometimes locks when getting up from a position where my leg in bent. I can't straighten it, if I try its so painful. So I have to wait (somtimes in a very uncomfortable balancing act position lol) and move it very slowly and carefully in different directions to ease it out of this lock. Its usually moving towards the left first then stretching out my leg in front that frees it. I am 53yrs old and still get this from time to time but when I was a child it happened a lot more frequently. ppl would want to pull my leg straight to help me but I would stop them because it was so painful and impossible. Also I got it more in cold weather than warm. Now I have 5 children and 2 of them have this very same knee lock problem. Must be genetic. I told my GP but noone ever seems to know or understand what it is. I have never met anyone else apart from my children with this, and this is the first time I found the answer. So thank you for the explanation and upload.
This happened to me in the middle of a dance rehearsal in college- completely out of nowhere. That was about 10 years ago and it has happened off & on since, usually when I’m in a position like child’s pose in yoga. If I’m not careful it’ll just flip and I’ll massage each side with the heel of my palms and massage it back into place. It’s such a relief to see medical imaging explaining what’s happening. I definitely felt crazy randomly popping up lame for a couple of minutes to an hour in the middle of classes or rehearsals over the years.
Thank God I found this video & everyone's comments here. I do alot of work in crawlspaces as I own a mold removal company. I had the same injury that everyone here is describing about 4 years ago the first time, a few close calls in between then yesterday again 6/27/24. When my knee is completely bent, where my calf is on the back of my thigh basically, I feel a sharp pain starting & then it's locked in a 90 degree angle (can't straighten)slight movements are painful & can't put pressure on it at all. The first time it happened I spent 4 days of icing and bed rest anti-inflammatory meds Dr visits the whole 9 yards.... Then it suddenly just popped back into place somehow & and I was almost instantly fine with no pain. I found this video & comments & decided I'd try to massage it back in place or somehow pop it back in & it worked! Pain is basically gone & I just walked across the room normally to out my crutches away. Glad I know this is a fix incase it happens again... Thanks for your comments definitely helped me out 😊
Thanks so much for this create video! After I fell on off my step a few weeks ago and landed on my knee every now and again my knee will lock. It’s very painful too. Every day it locks about 10-15 times. I went to the hospital and doc said it’s a meniscus tear come back if you can’t walk. Basically I can’t do my job properly without having to stop every hour or so cause my knee is locked. This is what must be going on with my knee. Something like this. Thanks
Glad I found this video & greatful I found the answer to fixing my injury. I've been having the same issues with my knee locking up after being in a tight bent knee position putting alot of pressure on the knee. I work in crawlspaces alot so that doesn't help but I took some tactics you guys said you use when it happens to you & bam it popped back in place & I'm walking again fine after using a walker the last few days. 😊
Sounds like the exact same thing that I have an occasional problem with. In my case the only solution I've ever found has been to pull it out straight to get it to pop back (with perhaps a little bit of massaging of the knee joint at the same time), which because of the pain I did have to get someone else to do for me when it first started happening to me at 13 years old. It has happened on and off to me since, but at 41 years old now it hadn't happened to me for a few years until it happened twice in the last fortnight, and nowadays I can just slowly, bit by bit, pull my own leg straight to free it, usually without too much pain. Trouble is when it happened today I had a pan on the stove bubbling away that I couldn't reach as I couldn't stand up, and it could easily have boiled over or gone dry, so this time I felt like I was in a race to get my leg unlocked before the pan caused a fire, which was a very scary position to be in given I live alone and the front door was locked so no-one could have got in very quickly to help, and that situation seemed to result in me perceiving more pain than usually would be the case. The first time it happened to me was because I took a running jump onto my bed at 13 years old and landed bent knee first with all my weight, so from this video I believe a meniscus injury caused by that incident is likely my problem. I wonder how many other people have the exact same thing and have always had it pop back after a few minutes or so and have therefore never had a scan when it was locked? Personally I'm inclined to think it is much less unusual than the video suggests, as there seems to me to be a likely bias in the reported medical data in that you have to stay locked up for long enough to be scanned like that for it to be spotted, and in most cases it will have been manually relocated by the person or someone helping them, or else just popped back on its own, long before any scan or diagnosis could possibly have taken place to catch it, meaning (if the second set of scans here is typical) it will seem normal by the time it is scanned.
I have this problem….and confirmed nothing is wrong with my meniscus or any other part of my knee. It began when I was 14yo….53yo now and it still happens. The fix for me is crossing my locked leg over my good one even if I am stuck on the floor….breathe…think about something else and it slips back. Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms began at 21yo …not saying that is the cause but one ortho’s theory is that excess sinovial fluid might be to blame but no firm answer.
I’d be really interested to know if the same thing ever happened again to this patient? My knee locked in a very similar way and then “popped” back into place. It was excruciating at the time and then painful and weak feeling for a few weeks after but my MRI was taken 2 weeks after the initial injury and only bruising to the meniscal horn was evident and I was discharged being told I needed no follow up. I then had the same thing happen again a couple of weeks later. It’s never been scanned whilst locked.
@@luz5058 had it repaired (not removed, repaired). I walked out of OR (with a cane). First 3 days were in bed but I was walking after day 6. 2 months now and it’s 100%
This is very interesting because all my life I've had this problem. My knee sometimes locks when getting up from a position where my leg in bent. I can't straighten it, if I try its so painful. So I have to wait (somtimes in a very uncomfortable balancing act position lol) and move it very slowly and carefully in different directions to ease it out of this lock. Its usually moving towards the left first then stretching out my leg in front that frees it. I am 53yrs old and still get this from time to time but when I was a child it happened a lot more frequently. ppl would want to pull my leg straight to help me but I would stop them because it was so painful and impossible. Also I got it more in cold weather than warm. Now I have 5 children and 2 of them have this very same knee lock problem. Must be genetic. I told my GP but noone ever seems to know or understand what it is. I have never met anyone else apart from my children with this, and this is the first time I found the answer. So thank you for the explanation and upload.
Is there anything you’ve done to help the locking?
This happened to me in the middle of a dance rehearsal in college- completely out of nowhere. That was about 10 years ago and it has happened off & on since, usually when I’m in a position like child’s pose in yoga. If I’m not careful it’ll just flip and I’ll massage each side with the heel of my palms and massage it back into place. It’s such a relief to see medical imaging explaining what’s happening. I definitely felt crazy randomly popping up lame for a couple of minutes to an hour in the middle of classes or rehearsals over the years.
Thank God I found this video & everyone's comments here.
I do alot of work in crawlspaces as I own a mold removal company. I had the same injury that everyone here is describing about 4 years ago the first time, a few close calls in between then yesterday again 6/27/24.
When my knee is completely bent, where my calf is on the back of my thigh basically, I feel a sharp pain starting & then it's locked in a 90 degree angle (can't straighten)slight movements are painful & can't put pressure on it at all.
The first time it happened I spent 4 days of icing and bed rest anti-inflammatory meds Dr visits the whole 9 yards.... Then it suddenly just popped back into place somehow & and I was almost instantly fine with no pain.
I found this video & comments & decided I'd try to massage it back in place or somehow pop it back in & it worked!
Pain is basically gone & I just walked across the room normally to out my crutches away.
Glad I know this is a fix incase it happens again... Thanks for your comments definitely helped me out 😊
Thanks so much for this create video! After I fell on off my step a few weeks ago and landed on my knee every now and again my knee will lock. It’s very painful too. Every day it locks about 10-15 times. I went to the hospital and doc said it’s a meniscus tear come back if you can’t walk. Basically I can’t do my job properly without having to stop every hour or so cause my knee is locked. This is what must be going on with my knee. Something like this. Thanks
Glad I found this video & greatful I found the answer to fixing my injury. I've been having the same issues with my knee locking up after being in a tight bent knee position putting alot of pressure on the knee.
I work in crawlspaces alot so that doesn't help but I took some tactics you guys said you use when it happens to you & bam it popped back in place & I'm walking again fine after using a walker the last few days. 😊
Sounds like the exact same thing that I have an occasional problem with. In my case the only solution I've ever found has been to pull it out straight to get it to pop back (with perhaps a little bit of massaging of the knee joint at the same time), which because of the pain I did have to get someone else to do for me when it first started happening to me at 13 years old. It has happened on and off to me since, but at 41 years old now it hadn't happened to me for a few years until it happened twice in the last fortnight, and nowadays I can just slowly, bit by bit, pull my own leg straight to free it, usually without too much pain. Trouble is when it happened today I had a pan on the stove bubbling away that I couldn't reach as I couldn't stand up, and it could easily have boiled over or gone dry, so this time I felt like I was in a race to get my leg unlocked before the pan caused a fire, which was a very scary position to be in given I live alone and the front door was locked so no-one could have got in very quickly to help, and that situation seemed to result in me perceiving more pain than usually would be the case. The first time it happened to me was because I took a running jump onto my bed at 13 years old and landed bent knee first with all my weight, so from this video I believe a meniscus injury caused by that incident is likely my problem.
I wonder how many other people have the exact same thing and have always had it pop back after a few minutes or so and have therefore never had a scan when it was locked? Personally I'm inclined to think it is much less unusual than the video suggests, as there seems to me to be a likely bias in the reported medical data in that you have to stay locked up for long enough to be scanned like that for it to be spotted, and in most cases it will have been manually relocated by the person or someone helping them, or else just popped back on its own, long before any scan or diagnosis could possibly have taken place to catch it, meaning (if the second set of scans here is typical) it will seem normal by the time it is scanned.
I have this problem….and confirmed nothing is wrong with my meniscus or any other part of my knee. It began when I was 14yo….53yo now and it still happens. The fix for me is crossing my locked leg over my good one even if I am stuck on the floor….breathe…think about something else and it slips back. Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms began at 21yo …not saying that is the cause but one ortho’s theory is that excess sinovial fluid might be to blame but no firm answer.
I’d be really interested to know if the same thing ever happened again to this patient? My knee locked in a very similar way and then “popped” back into place. It was excruciating at the time and then painful and weak feeling for a few weeks after but my MRI was taken 2 weeks after the initial injury and only bruising to the meniscal horn was evident and I was discharged being told I needed no follow up. I then had the same thing happen again a couple of weeks later. It’s never been scanned whilst locked.
If the meniscus doesn't go back to normal....after surgery is done will the leg be able to extend back to normal again?walk without an issue???
Was surgery necessary? I just had this last week swimming and it went back into place a few hours later. It just happened again now.
how are you doing? mom one month like that, had it when working out, thanks
@@luz5058 had it repaired (not removed, repaired). I walked out of OR (with a cane). First 3 days were in bed but I was walking after day 6. 2 months now and it’s 100%
i need to know that too, because its has happened to me again