Should I go to the doctor?

[kermitthefrayer]

I went to class yesterday and everything was great till the end...

We were rolling to finish or reverse from guard. So I popped my left leg out and went for the gogo plata. When I grabbed my foot my knee and my ankle popped. My ankle feels fine but my knee hurts today like a bitch. It's some what swollen on the outside but other than that "looks" fine. It only really starts hurting when I try to straighten or bend my leg past neutral...

So brothers do I give it a couple days? Or go straight to the doc?

:wah:

[soz]

What do you mean by "looks fine"? Any discoloring? When you press on the swelling, does it feel watery or is it hard?

[Sepiku .]

Lcl pull, you can go to the doctor if you want but they'll just give you muscle relaxers, try giving it a few days, its been 3 weeks with mine and no pain but it re injures really easily until its fully healed.

[kermitthefrayer]

What do you mean by "looks fine"? Any discoloring? When you press on the swelling, does it feel watery or is it hard?

Its a little swollen and a little bruised. And it feels like pain when I touch the spot. Feels solid though like it swollen.

[kermitthefrayer]

Lcl pull, you can go to the doctor if you want but they'll just give you muscle relaxers, try giving it a few days, its been 3 weeks with mine and no pain but it re injures really easily until its fully healed.

How long you think till I can roll again? It pretty much fucking hurts today and can walk with some pain.

[SmokinGunz]

damn...my last tournament i was in a dude did the same thing when he was pulling that rubber guard shit on me...i never knew why peeps that aren't that flexible try to force that shit.

[kermitthefrayer]

I normally am that flexible I think it ended up at a weird angel or something...

[Bruce Lee]

I went to class yesterday and everything was great till the end...

We were rolling to finish or reverse from guard. So I popped my left leg out and went for the gogo plata. When I grabbed my foot my knee and my ankle popped. My ankle feels fine but my knee hurts today like a bitch. It's some what swollen on the outside but other than that "looks" fine. It only really starts hurting when I try to straighten or bend my leg past neutral...

So brothers do I give it a couple days? Or go straight to the doc?

:wah:

So you basically subbed yourself with a gogo. Nice job.

I would not attempt that unless you have long, lean legs or some type of freakish natural flexibility like Penn or Aoki.

[jetjaguar]

I'v fucked up my knee doing that rubber guard shit. rest, ibuprophin, neoprene brace and use an arnica based ointment on the area. if you've got insurance go to the docter. all they can do is give you muscle relaxers or surgery. You should be alright in 6 weeks

[xhale]

you're fine... ice it up

[Zere]

go to the doctor to make sure, if there is something wrong your recovery time will be short, or you could hurt it worse and spend 6 months recovering from shoulder surgery, like me.

[Obi Narb Kenobi]

smoke weed

[Cameron]

ice and rest and if in a week its still there check it. roll but know your limits your body will tell you if your pushing to hard listen to it.

[Obi Narb Kenobi]

ice and rest and if in a week its still there check it. roll but know your limits your body will tell you if your pushing to hard listen to it.

yeah that or smoke weed

[Sepiku .]

How long you think till I can roll again? It pretty much fucking hurts today and can walk with some pain.

3 weeks honestly, 4 max. Your past the first day so don't ice it. Use a hot pack and keep it at a confortable angle. Don't get cabin fever and jump around with it. Wait until it feels completly normal then give it 3 days of stretching (not rubber gaurd stretching) and wear a knee brace when training for the first week. After that try it out.

[Sloth]

Do you have insurance? If you do, then why not head over to a doctor to be on the safe side?

[Zere]

soak it in epsom salt helps

[kermitthefrayer]

Thanks all for input. Went to the doc this morning and he basically said i was lucky. He said I should stay off it take ibuprofen, use tiger balm a hot pack ect.... And smoke some ganja, feels a lot better today, but I'm still sad because I was supossed to test for my NEWB belt Saturday. Maybe it will feel good enough for my test... **SIGH**

[DieOff]

That sucks

[kermitthefrayer]

Yeah we will see how it feels. I called into work to day and I'm off tomorrow so if I'm lucky... I won't have to wait months to be able to test for my gold belt.

[Sloth]

Good luck, I hope it feels better soon!

[kermitthefrayer]

Good luck, I hope it feels better soon!

Thanks man! It means more than you know to hear that from some one.

Most people I know are like thats what you get for abusing your body yada yada

[Sloth]

No problemo! I know it sucks real bad getting injured.

[prmike3]

never hurts to get it checked

[Nick16watt]

I did something similar. I was doing the lotus stretch, which I had just began doing successfully. Well, I was kinda tight one day, and yanked my leg into the stretch. Heard a pop.

That was like a month ago, and my knee still isn't right.

I should probably go to the doc.

I miss my rubber guard!!