Healing time of a kneecap fracture

Duration of healing after a fractured kneecap

How long it takes for a fractured kneecap to heal can be determined for the following reasons not generally define:

• on the one hand there is different types of fractions and
• different characteristics of a break, which already show very different healing tendencies and
• on the other hand, too every patient, depending on his individual basic conditions responds differently to possible therapies.

A fractured kneecap can in some cases without surgery be treated, however only if there is no accompanying damage and the general condition of the patient is good.
Then the joint can in part practically directly under professionally guided physical therapy be reinserted, although you should gradually get used to the joint again to its full range of motion.
A full load can not be done for a few weeks and should be built up slowly.
Mostly you can assume that the normal function after about 6 weeks is restored.

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The knee joint is one of the joints with the greatest stress.

Therefore, the treatment of the knee joint (e.g. meniscus tear, cartilage damage, cruciate ligament damage, runner's knee, etc.) requires a lot of experience.
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The aim of any treatment is treatment without surgery.

Which therapy achieves the best results in the long term can only be determined after looking at all of the information (Examination, X-ray, ultrasound, MRI, etc.) be assessed.

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If, however larger fractures and possibly in addition Impairment of other structures in the joint there must be a surgery respectively.
Following most of the various surgical procedures available, you must The knee joint can usually be spared for 6 weeks.
Sometimes with certain surgical techniques it is also necessary to remove inserted implants in a new operationwhat the duration of the Healing process overall still extended.

Some sufferers complain even after being successful completed therapy still about various impairments, which then however regress after a few months:

• slight numbness,
• Swelling
• or weather sensitivity
  

About a third of patients with a fractured kneecap, however, it happens at all not a complete cure. You have for the rest of your life Painwhich sometimes occur permanently, sometimes only under stress.
The Chance of a complete cure is especially on the size the damage caused dependent.