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well, I'm now 3 months post-ACLR and the catching has gotten alot better. My OS said it was mostly due to my quad strength. Tighten up the quads and it will pull the patella up and relieve the catching. So far it's felling pretty good but I'm still not walking with a full extension. I can get full extension in my exercises but not by merely tightening my quads. I notice at the last few degrees of extension, there is considerably more clicking occuring when I straighten it out.I think I'm going to step up the physio and try to work out the kinks. Swimming has helped quite a bit.
Hey guys,Just wondering if anyone's had their knee "catch" when trying to go from full extension to 90 degrees. I'm 6 weeks post-op from an ACL repair with a lateral meniscus repair. I have about 0-120 degrees ROM and am walking without crutches. The only problem I have is when I reach about 45 degrees of flexion I feel a bunch of pressure at my knee joint (right in the middle front ) when bending. If I just bend it past that pointslowly, the pressure releases and it's fine. If it put my hand over the source of the pain, I can feel something releasing forward when the pressure lets go. It's not painful, but there's somthing moving in there when I bendI still have some swelling at the knee area so I'm wondering if this might be a side-effect of the swelling and will go away once the swelling subsides. Might it be loose cartilage or my knee isn't tracking properly?It only happens if I go from full-extension to a bend. If I start from 5 degrees to a bend, I don't get it. Almost like locking out my knee in full extension is moving something in my knee.