01/12/2025
Injury Series 2.0
🦵 Meniscus injuries are one of the most common causes of knee pain, affecting athletes, gym-goers, and anyone who twists, pivots, or overloads the knee. These injuries can occur gradually with degeneration or suddenly after a high force mechanism such as twisting or pivoting.
Symptoms often include joint-line pain, swelling, clicking, catching, or a feeling of the knee “giving way.” Pain is usually aggravated by twisting, squatting, or prolonged walking.
Tears can be traumatic (twist / rotation) or degenerative, with joint-line pain, swelling, clicking, or night discomfort (including the “pillow sign”).
🔹 Management focuses on reducing pain and swelling, restoring mobility, and gradually strengthening the quadriceps, hamstrings, and gluteal muscles. Manual therapy and activity modification are often combined with a structured rehabilitation plan over a 3–6 month period to allow for healing and recovery. This includes strength, proprioception, progressive loading and gradual return to previous activity levels. For some, imaging or adjunct therapies may help and guide treatment.
If you’d like more information to see how we can help or to book an appointment, contact us below.
📞 01785 561880
📧 healthcare@bodyy.co.uk
💻 www.bodyy.co.uk (link in bio)
Appointments are usually available within a 48-hour period.
