Long story short. Had plica surgery on left knee in March Right before Covid shut everything down. Recovery was longer than expected due to complications (knee filled with blood a week after surgery and had to be drained). Surgery was a success though as in no more of the original pain I had before surgery. Now my right knee seems to be headed down same path with the same symptoms. For those who’ve had this problem, did you later get it in the other knee as well?
Had plica removal about five years ago in college on my left knee. Occasionally feel like I start feeling “similar” symptoms in my left knee, but never gets as bad as the left knee got.
Hey I just had surgery to remove a plica from both knees at the same time. My surgeon and sports doc said they are often bilateral and often are genetic. The plica showed up on the MRI on my left knee, but not my right knee. However once the surgeon got in there he could see the plica's impinging my knee.
Question about your recovery:
1. how long until you had no pain sitting on a chair with your knees bent?
2. when did you start going for walks and how much?
Cheers
I had a plica removal exactly 3 weeks ago. (I’m a cyclist and was having severe knee pain in my right medial knee for almost 2 months) Knee pain while sitting went away at week 2ish. At 1.5 weeks my pain was really bad, worse than right after surgery.
I kept track of daily activity and was roughly 10m steps from just daily stuff at about 2 weeks as well.
I can now do about a half mile walk with no issues. I do, however, have a ton of pain with squats.
The PT I’m going to has me doing a lot of hamstring and IT band stretches and a lot of sitting/laying down glute work.
I originally found this post as I was doing a couple of exercises and my LEFT knee started hurting. Also worried about having to cut open the other one as well...
Plica syndrome is an interesting problem that occurs when an otherwise normal structure in the knee becomes a source of knee pain due to injury or overuse. The diagnosis can sometimes be difficult, but if this is the source of your knee pain, it can be easily treated.
have you heard of anyone having a suprapatellar plica?
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