Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Knee Update: PRP Shots

I had my second shot last week Friday (2019-05-24).  My first shot was a month prior (2019-04-26).

The first shot was interesting that there was very little pain during the injection, and post injection.  I had a slight amount of soreness, but really negligible.

After the first injection, about second week in I noticed a greater range of motion without pain.  While significant it still wasn't 100%.

A few days before my second shot I actually went and did Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class(basic) and was able to move my leg in the ways I needed.  I didn't do any live rolling so there was no stress test, but I was able to maintain closed guard (which I couldn't after the meniscus tore).  The day after I also did a small amount of running which probably wasn't the wisest thing to do.

The reason I don't think the running was great is because the day of the shot I had some slight swelling and inflammation in my knee.  I'm not sure if it was the swelling, or the second injection just took a different path, but the second inject hurt significantly more during the inject and post injection.  During the injection the main pain cam from piercing what I assume was the joint capsule.

Post injection I have knee flexion limitations.  I can't flex my knee back more than 90° and I can't rotate in to sit cross legged.  In both cases I feel knee pain and tugging on some internal structure.  Almost certainly from inflammation.

I'm 4 days past the injection with some improvement.  

Again the goal I hoping to meet is to be able to continue doing BJJ without having meniscus surgery.  I don't want to have meniscus surgery because it's generally a subtractive procedure that puts you that much closer to osteo-arthritis.

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