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This website forms a personal study of the injury involving my right foot and the lateral side of my right knee whilst jogging in the Summer of 2006. It includes the full history, symptoms, problems and possibilities within the kinetic chain that I have encountered, and am still coping with whilst enduring lateral knee pain.
NB...
Please read, but go beyond the text. I am only going on my symptoms and what these seem to imply for me. Medically trained people need to follow the symptoms and use their extensive knowledge to get to the cause...
It is, for me, a bit of a learning curve as I explore what might be wrong with my leg, particularly my knee as it was there where I had initially encountered violent, violent, violent pain, but it was at my foot where the problem may well have started. And although I have learnt things as I have been constructing this website exploring my lateral knee pain, I have decided to leave in my ponderings on what may be misconceptions because they do acknowledge the difficulty of diagnosis especially around the very complex area of the lateral side (outside) of the knee and the fibular head.
I can't believe how big this website is...! It is just growing every day. Every time I read something, I can find relevence to my problems. Perhaps I am getting better at finding good, specific links online... bearing in mind that I do not have access to cream-of-the-crop medical articles. I appreciate that doctors, by and large, don't like patients doing their own research, and, truly I wouldn't be doing it, if it had not been for the fact that this injury happened in 2006, now over 8½ years ago... and must be regarded as unresolved as I am still in so much agony...
Apology
I must apologuise beforehand for each and every breach of copyright within this website. I have, I hope, acknowledged all quotes and diagrams with links to their source... but I have not asked for permission to use them... I shall as soon as I am able.
Work in progress
This website is still a 'work in progress'... but I need to be able to let people read it because I am in soooooo much agony...
Every time I see a doctor I really need another appointment after I have had time to ponder on outcomes and what they say. I run off to my PC and/or tablet and search for the next installment.
The single, most dominant issue that I keep pondering on is:
How is it possible for muscles to become weak intantaneously... without other influences acting upon them... ??? It seems to me that if muscles go weak instantaneously then the muscles, tendons and/or ligaments must have been damaged... if there is no neurological problem nor desease... To progress further with this line of thought then checks, or repeated checks, need to be conducted looking for disease and neurological issues, perhaps second opinions would be advisable... and this is now underway, albeit 2 months waiting for MRI and overall over 3 months waiting to see ankle registrar again...
And I am back to the notion of 2 different problems again... because I believe that I have found the problem... an anterolateral dislocation of the proximal tibiofibular joint... AND I believe that this may also have implications for those who are diagnosed with a lateral meniscus tear and the inevitibility of pending arthritis... BUT this needs medical investigation...