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Video Q&A about Knee Injuries with Dr. Chhabra

Fri, Sep 9, 2016
1:00pm to 2:00pm ET

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Dr. Anikar Chhabra, Orthopedic Surgeon at Mayo Clinic Arizona and ASU Sun Devil Athletics Chief Orthopedic Consultant discusses:

• Types of knee injuries: chronic and acute
• How to diagnose and treat each type of injury
• Rehab and exercises to prevent knee injuries

Dr. Anikar Chhabra answered questions related to sports medicine at Mayo Clinic following the live event.

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Pam1 | @pam1 | Sep 8, 2016

My Knee hurts sometimes going down the stairs, i would like to know what can i do to prevent. I'm 52year old.

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Sep 8, 2016

Hi @pam1, welcome to Connect. I'm going to bring fellow members @nanke99 @inspiration and @dongee into the conversation. They too have had sore knees and various reasons for finding stairs difficult in the past.

Pam, Can you tell us a bit more about yourself? What changed in your life when you started getting sore knees going down stairs? Any knee injuries, or a diagnosis of arthritis or osteoporosis or something else?

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nanke99 | @nanke99 | Sep 8, 2016

Thank you for including me. FYI my problem started about 2 years ago, first I just thought I was just out of shape and getting old, but it has continued to get worse, especially in my right knee, and now I am in constant pain and having difficulty doing anything. My left knew also hurts and is weak, but not near as bad as the right. I have only had X-ray and MRI of right knee, which showed minimal cartilage damage & some arthritis- not enough to cause such pain and instability. I had a cortisone shot last year (should it have BEEN SOOO painful??), which helped a bit, but now I'm back to bing in constant pain and not very mobil. Because I go to a clinic, I can't see the doctor for a few more weeks. ALSO, my knees and thighs are very weak! I have difficulty getting up from a chair sometimes, and I really can't do stairs- especially up. I have been tested for MS and ALS, and luckily results were negative, but I don't understand what the problem could be and noone (doctors) seem to take me seriously. Just hanging in until I can see the Ortho.... I am very concerned that we are missing something. Since specialists tend to have tunnel vision (not necessarily in a bad way), could we be missing something????

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nanke99 | @nanke99 | Sep 9, 2016
In reply to @nanke99 "Thank you for including me. FYI my problem started about 2 years ago, first I just..." + (show)
@nanke99

Thank you for including me. FYI my problem started about 2 years ago, first I just thought I was just out of shape and getting old, but it has continued to get worse, especially in my right knee, and now I am in constant pain and having difficulty doing anything. My left knew also hurts and is weak, but not near as bad as the right. I have only had X-ray and MRI of right knee, which showed minimal cartilage damage & some arthritis- not enough to cause such pain and instability. I had a cortisone shot last year (should it have BEEN SOOO painful??), which helped a bit, but now I'm back to bing in constant pain and not very mobil. Because I go to a clinic, I can't see the doctor for a few more weeks. ALSO, my knees and thighs are very weak! I have difficulty getting up from a chair sometimes, and I really can't do stairs- especially up. I have been tested for MS and ALS, and luckily results were negative, but I don't understand what the problem could be and noone (doctors) seem to take me seriously. Just hanging in until I can see the Ortho.... I am very concerned that we are missing something. Since specialists tend to have tunnel vision (not necessarily in a bad way), could we be missing something????

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I was unable to find this on Facebook, despite following link. Should I have looked elsewhere? Sorry!
Also, I didn't realize that last long post from me was for questions to DR.! 🙂

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Sep 9, 2016
In reply to @nanke99 "Thank you for including me. FYI my problem started about 2 years ago, first I just..." + (show)
@nanke99

Thank you for including me. FYI my problem started about 2 years ago, first I just thought I was just out of shape and getting old, but it has continued to get worse, especially in my right knee, and now I am in constant pain and having difficulty doing anything. My left knew also hurts and is weak, but not near as bad as the right. I have only had X-ray and MRI of right knee, which showed minimal cartilage damage & some arthritis- not enough to cause such pain and instability. I had a cortisone shot last year (should it have BEEN SOOO painful??), which helped a bit, but now I'm back to bing in constant pain and not very mobil. Because I go to a clinic, I can't see the doctor for a few more weeks. ALSO, my knees and thighs are very weak! I have difficulty getting up from a chair sometimes, and I really can't do stairs- especially up. I have been tested for MS and ALS, and luckily results were negative, but I don't understand what the problem could be and noone (doctors) seem to take me seriously. Just hanging in until I can see the Ortho.... I am very concerned that we are missing something. Since specialists tend to have tunnel vision (not necessarily in a bad way), could we be missing something????

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Hi Nanke, your post above was perfect. We want to keep the conversation going. If you would like to see the recorded session, simply click the video above.

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