Top 10 Signs And Symptoms Of A Loose And Unstable Knee Replacement

I’ve got the top 10 signs and symptoms of a loose or unstable knee replacement. Now loose just means that the knee joint is just kind of wobbly. And unstable means that you don’t trust your knee to do simple things like walking, going up and down steps, or getting up and down from chairs.

Now I’m about to tell you the list. But these are not in a particular order. Some people have some of the symptoms, some have just one, some have all of them. So you’ll have to figure out what best fits you.

Number one is knee pain, I’m talking about pain anywhere around the knee joint, it could be on the front, on the inside part of the knee, the outside part of the knee, the back of the knee joints, if you have persistent chronic knee pain, like it’s been going on for a while doesn’t really go away, then that’s a sign that you could have a loose or unstable knee joint.

Number two is popping, clicking or knocking sounds coming from your knee joint. And this is especially concerning if it’s increasing. Because it’s possible that you’ll get a popping, clicking, or a knocking sound here and there throughout the day throughout the week as you’re just going through your normal daily activities.

And you don’t have a loose or unstable knee joint, it’s just a side effect of having a knee joint. But if the sounds are increasing in frequency, if they’re getting louder as well, if they’re causing pain at the time that they happen, then that’s a sign that it could be contributing to a loose or unstable knee joint. Number three is wobbliness in your knee.

So that happens when you go to step or you go to stand up and your knee joint just kind of feels a little shaky, like it doesn’t support you as well, it doesn’t give out completely, it just doesn’t feel like it’s going to support you all the way and you don’t trust it.

This leads to people offloading onto their other leg and avoiding using the replaced knee because they don’t want to make the wobble worse. Hey friends, I want to take a quick moment to encourage you to subscribe, I was looking on my YouTube Analytics. And I found out that only 11.6% less than 12% of people watching our videos are actual subscribers.

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Now this is the advanced version of wobbling, that’s when you go to stand up or if you’ve been on your feet for a while or walking for a bit, you kind of get a little tired doesn’t take a lot. And then your knee just buckles it just gives way sometimes it goes backwards or sideways even but the most common way that a buckles as you’re standing and all of a sudden just kind of gives out and bends and it feels like you are going to fall in some cases people do have to grab on for balance.

And very often you’ll feel like you need your cane or your walker just as a security so that you’re not going to actually take a spill. And the number five sign and symptom of a loose or unstable knee joint replacement is swelling around the knee joint. Now this may happen right at the knee joint like where the bones meet.

But it could also happen above the knee and below the knee joint because where the artificial parts were installed, they had to shave off the ends of the bones. And the interface between the metal and the bone is a place that you can get swelling. So you may get swelling a little bit higher than the knee joint, it’ll still feel like it’s your knee joint.

But it may not be right on the line of the joint. Number six is a reduced ability to walk if you feel like you’ve been walking less because you just don’t trust your knee, you’re getting some buckling or wobbling in your knee. And that’s also a sign that you might have a loose or unstable knee joint. Number seven is related to walking.

But if you don’t walk as much, maybe you just have reduced time on your feet. If you’re doing chores at home, whether you’re inside or outside the home, maybe you do hobbies in the garage, or you take care of the kitchen, you’re a cook and you’re on your feet for quite a bit of time throughout the day.

And you feel like you’ve been doing that less and less because your knee is wobbly or tends to give way. And that’s another sign that you might have an unstable or loose knee joint replacement.

Number eight is a loss of motion, it’s possible that your knee doesn’t fully extend or doesn’t fully bend as much as it used to previously and now I’m talking about if you’ve had your knee replacement for a while you’ve already finished your recovery right after the surgery and you’re out of going to the doctor’s office, you’re not seeing physical therapist anymore for your recovery.

It’s been a while since you’ve completed your rehab. If then you begin to get a loss of motion. That’s a possible sign that you have a loose or unstable knee joints when the knee joint loses its alignment because it can shift inwards outwards or shift into rotation a bit. The mechanics at the knee joint might not allow you to bend and straighten your knee through its normal range of motion and this can produce a loss of motion.

The number nine is the extreme version of this. You could get joint locking. That means that the joint just doesn’t bend beyond a certain point. It’s a massive loss of motion, but then you can usually kind of wiggle and then get some more motion out of it. Or maybe you can straighten all the way, but you can shift your leg and then straighten it.

This is also associated with pain usually, but it’s a very disturbing feeling because all of a sudden, you can’t move, you can’t walk, you can’t get up, you can’t do anything until that knee frees up. That’s also a sign that you have a loose or unstable knee joint because you’re getting some altered mechanics within the joint.

And number 10 is a dislocation. Now this is going to be the most obvious sign that you have a loose or unstable knee joint, but that’s when the knee itself becomes dislocated. This tends to be associated with an accident, like a fall or if you’re, you know, God forbid, you’re in a car accident, some sort of motor vehicle accident.

If this happens without an accident, then it’s a super serious sign you obviously whether you had an accident or not, you need to go to the doctor immediately and get this dislocation addressed. I’ve got lots of videos with exercises, tips and advice on how to help a loose or unstable knee replacement. And you can go find those videos by looking for the link down the description below.

There’s a playlist there called Knee Replacement Pain Help, and I’ve also got a comprehensive online program called the Failed Knee Replacement Recovery Program. You can learn more about that through the link in the description below. And don’t forget to subscribe. Please share this video with somebody you think needs to hear this, like the video if you thought it was helpful, and I hope to see you in the next video. Bye bye!