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I’m 35 and have had the tracking issue since childhood. I’ve rehabbed it several times. Rehab was successful as a kid but now doesn’t help. The pain is just getting worse. I do also have arthritis.
I had the equivalent of 4 lateral releases done to my knees (all without my consent). I went from running and kiteboarding to not being able to walk down stairs and becoming a couch potato. My left quad shriveled up and died and my right knee is much worse than before. On the bright side, I'm 3 months removed from having my left LPFL and MPFL reconstructed and can see a few positive changes and will hopefully get back to 90% of what I was before the surgical injury known as release of the kneecap. My life has been a nightmare since the releases and I know you are suffering but I hope you don't go that route.
No worries. You have to have 20 messages to PM. This sounds like a bad idea. The lateral release result can go 1 of 2 ways. Your symptoms will resolve or you will get worse. It's not a neutral or better procedure. So if you do get worse, then the plan is to saw out your tibial tubercle and move it into another position? And what if that then makes you even worse. Then you'll have a damaged retinaculum and a misplaced tibial tubercle. What then? Reverse the tibial tubercle back to the original spot and reconstruct the lateral retinaculum? 3 surgeries, lots of unemployment and depression and pain, and now you are leagues worse than where you started? My advice to you is this. Do a consult with my guy Lars Blond. An opinion is only as good as the person giving it. It will cost you 175 dollars via SKYPE but that is a drop in the bucket if you proceed down a potentially nightmarish path. If lateral release/ lenghtening/or TTO is indicated he will let you know. If there is nothing that can surgically help you at this time he will let you know. Do you really want just one opinion, this is your knee you are playing with. He may seem like a nice guy and want the best for you, but the surgeon who injured me seemed like a nice guy but was a complete unethical moron in hindsight.Very few out there are more skilled or knowledgeable with regard to the patella than him. He invented arthrocopic trocheoplasty. And he's a decent human being as well. He told me last time we talked "maybe you'll be able to train harder once your left knee gets better and then you might be able to avoid surgery to your right knee (damaged LPFL/MPFL). Please read https://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEtalk/index.php?topic=75746.0 (specifically 2nd, 3rd, 4th)That's the type of surgeon you want, someone like Lars Blond. Not some POS who offers to do both knees at the same time and then does the wrong procedure to both of them. Anyhow, hopefully you won't have to go through what I'm going thru and what many others before you have gone thru. Should read through the diaries of smillie and greyliston when you get a chance. -Bill