Cannot Straighten Leg Pain Behind Knee
Often you cant straighten the knee simply because of pain and swelling.
Cannot straighten leg pain behind knee. Knee hyperextension is a common sporting injury eg. You cannot bring your heel to your butt you have restricted knee flexion range of motion. The back of the knee may hurt when a person straightens their leg because of a variety of issues including blood clots muscle or tendon injuries arthritis or cysts.
Most of us take for granted that we can fully straighten our knee. Physical therapy rest and. We left it for a couple of days as we put it down to growing pains or a minor hurt that would quickly go away.
My knee gets too painful sometimes when I try to straighten my leg it seems to lock for a while until I can get it to straighten just behind the right knee at the right side where the tendons are they dont want to straighten without the pain it just feels like bone on bone all the way through. See your md fo. Tearing of these tendons is yet another cause for an individual to not be able to straighten the.
There is usually a sharp or aching pain behind the knee swelling and instability. After pt it felt a bit better because they worked on the muscle behind the knee but it prevented me from having a good pt session. My physical therapist said I pulled something in the back of the knee because Im not walking properly which is putting strain on the back of the knee.
When the average person with normal knees stands he or she can lock out the knees by slightly hyper-extending the joint. There are a number of causes of pain behind the knee which include. You have pain behind the knee.
This can also be aggravated by kneeling on the knee or with forceful muscle use such as squats or lunges. The inflammation and swelling is so severe that it becomes almost impossible to straighten the knee without pain. Bursitis is an inflammation of the bursa sacs in and around the knee.
