While on vacation last week, I flew off my bike trying to avoid a pot hole and landed and slid down a gravel road. I ended up with a serious case of road rash on my knee and arm, and I have lost the ability to entirely bend my leg at the knee. I ended up in the hospital of the very small town we were in. The doc did an x-ray, but not an MRI. I didn't break a bone, but I'm concerned about the cartilage under my knee cap. When I asked he sort of shrugged it off and said I can't bend at the knee because there is so much fluid around my knee. The swelling has gone down, but I still can't bend my knee all the way. Is an MRI a good idea? If so, what kind of doc do I see? A sports medicine person or an orthopedic surgeon?
2007-08-13
10:23:23
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