Short case description: 25 years old, female injured her right knee during basketball game. She left playing, required little assistance to get her car. PCP evaluated her, gave her non-steroidal anti-inflammatory with P. T referral.
Brief summary of patient history: injury occurred when she planted her right leg and rotated to the right to evade a defender. She denied hearing a pop, she reported immediate pain was 8 out of 10 on a visual analog scale. Her current pain level is 5 out of 10. Patient came 2 days after injury, with knee swelling and locking. . Patient pain and mechanism of injury are consistent with a meniscus injury.
Examination:
Assessment/evaluation: 25 Y/O female had right medial meniscus sprain with positive special Tests, pain, effusion, weakness, limited knee range of movement of flexion and extension and limited activities of daily living with inability to participate in usual sports activities.
Interventions: physical therapy treatment include:
- Modalities to reduce pain (whirlpool, electric stimulation, and cryotherapy).
- Modalities to reduce knee effusion (whirlpool, taping, pulsed ultra sound, and static quadriceps drill exercise).
- Intervention to restore range of motion deficits: therapeutic exercise progression, joint mobilization/ manual therapy.
- Therapeutic exercise to restore muscular strength and aerobic fitness.
- Functional strengthening exercise to return to previous level of function and participate in usual sports routine.
- Outcomes: After 7 weeks of rehabilitation patient get improved with following outcomes:
After 7 weeks of successful rehabilitation, patient was able to participate in routine sports activities and her daily living with no need to more medical or physical therapy assistance.
