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conny

27-Sep-2005
3:17:05 PM

just a warning. I was out enjoying a day of climbing and was on the last move of a grade ten lead. As I pulled over the top my knee made a horrid snapping sound and was instantly painful. I ended up unable to work and a visit to the surgeon. A few weeks later (thanks to private health insurance) I had surgery. Turns out as I twisted on the knee I literally had a blow out in the cartlidge on the femor head. It has now been removed( the damaged cartlidge that is)and my knee will never be the same. So take care of your knees you never know when you are going to twist funny and end up with no climbing for months. Has anyone else managed to do this? The surgeon was a little stumped as to how I managed it.

IdratherbeclimbingM9

27-Sep-2005
4:18:59 PM

>The surgeon was a little stumped as to how I managed it.

So am I.

... bet that incident was disappointing :{

Hope you recover fully.

manacubus

27-Sep-2005
4:29:05 PM

This is an argument for lower-offs on every route!

kerroxapithecus

27-Sep-2005
9:11:35 PM

lower-off....can someone in power add that to the dictionary?

Rich

27-Sep-2005
11:20:30 PM

On 27/09/2005 manacubus wrote:
>This is an argument for lower-offs on every route!

what, on a grade 10? ;)

sorry to hear about ur injury mate.. but hey things could always be worse at least u can look forward to climbing sometime in the near future..

timmy

28-Sep-2005
2:13:52 AM

I think Kezza did a similar thing to you earlier this year. She did a drop knee, and it popped.

Good news is that she has made a decent enough recovery to be climbing again.

Have a chat with her and she'll fill you in on the technical stuff.

kezza

28-Sep-2005
9:57:44 AM

same same but different.
Dislocation of the patella, but no ligaments etc blowing out.
So, not sure if the recovery details will be on the same tracks.. But I'm climbing again, just as hard/harder then i was before i did the stupid drop knee.
Slow road to recovery, but i was climbing gently again in about 3 or 4 months. Just keep to the exercises etc that your osteo/physio gives you and you'll be fine.
I wish you luck on a quick recovery.
Keep us updated.

adski

28-Sep-2005
12:29:19 PM

conny, sorry to hear about your injury, best of luck with rehab. You'll be back manteling 10's before you know it. This is an unusual cautionary tale though, do we need to do a more thorough warmup before we get on 10's? Hmm.

On the very first session on a friend's woody I tore the meniscus in my knee, and to avoid this happening to others I make visitors to my woody warm up on the traverse wall before throwing themselves at the 45 wall.

Every little bit helps as injuries suck.

conny

30-Sep-2005
9:48:56 AM

Good news!!
Climbed on Wednesday at the gym. Very weak from no climbing and bearly able to do a thing but the knee is holding up. I don't know about warm ups I had walked 45 minutes to get to the climb. I think its just unlucky. My old knees are not a flexible as they used to be. I think we spend a lot of time caring for fingers and elbows etc but take the rest for granted.

IdratherbeclimbingM9

30-Sep-2005
3:03:18 PM

On 27/09/2005 kerroxapithecus wrote:
>lower-off....can someone in power add that to the dictionary?

Mike has done it now.
Here is the result ...

Lower-off.
Leader descending a route by having their belayer lower them. On a sport climb this typically means the leader has clipped or threaded the anchors at the top of the route/pitch.

AlanD

30-Sep-2005
8:32:52 PM

Conny, take care on rotating your body when your weight is loaded on the foot of the damaged knee, as this puts a lot of load onto the cartlidge and ligaments of the knee.

I needed to take a 4 month break from indoor climbing when I had an ACL reconstruction, cartlidge repair and platella scrape. Fortunately at the time I didn't have a climbing partner who wanted to climb out doors, as I would have felt I needed more of a break.

conny

1-Oct-2005
10:37:17 AM

I had the patella scrape done while they were in there. Still cant lean on it. I think slow and steady are the way. I am very nervous about rotation and wont be doing any big drop knees for some time.Knee pulled up well but is sore today due to a silly cross bar on the computer table of all things... kept on banging it.
I also suffer tendonitis in my shoulders on occassion has anyone advice re execises for this?

AlanD

1-Oct-2005
12:54:12 PM

4 Months is way to long not to be able for you not to be able to bare weight on that knee. If you don't get the knee right now and quickly, it's going to become increasing difficult for recovery to occur and increases the risk with arthritis. Go see a really good physio who specialises in sports injuries. It took me nearly 12 months before I had a complete recovery (well as good as it ever will be) with my knee, lots of physio and gym work 3 days a week. Nearly 4 years later and I'm still keep up a lot of fitness work directed at the knee, so I can do all the other activities that can potentially damage it (DH & XC skiing, sailing, climbing, bushwalking ...).

As for the shoulder tendonitis, get that looked at by the physio as well.

audtracol

2-Oct-2005
11:35:05 AM

Knee injuries like this should be kept warm at all times conny, I would suggest no ice climbing in NZ for at least the next year or so. If you've already booked one you could always pass the trip over to a good climbing buddy of yours!!!!!

Andaroo

3-Oct-2005
5:40:42 PM

I used to be involved in wakeboarding and coaching over here in sunny WA, Its a receipe for a knee reco, I survived by cross training, Cycling, running, rollerblading (in the dark mind you..) I found rollerblading strengthened muscles and joints that dont usually get used in your knee unless things go wrong.. And I agree warmups and stretching help as well.

Hope the knee recovers and see you run through the grades..

conny

5-Oct-2005
10:49:46 AM

AHA!! Your found me I see. And I thought I could hide well. As for giving up the NZ trip, good suggestion but I think I will just get a pair of thicker thermals... Thanks for the concern

James

6-Oct-2005
11:07:29 PM

I went on a trip to the mountains 8 weeks (nearly exactly) after dislocating my patellea (chipped cartlidge
off the inside of the patella, had arthroscopy & stuff).... really wasn't much fun. I probably wasn't very fit,
but walking down hills was just painful & slow. being determined not to miss a trip was both good & bad.

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