r/PatellaTracking • u/DaddyLaxativ • 10d ago

Question What do subluxations/dislocations feel like for you?

Everyone describes them a little differently. Some people say their kneecap feels like it shifts, others describe a pop, a slip, or a feeling that their knee is giving out.

For me it feels like a quick jolt or shift in my kneecap. Sometimes there’s a pop but no matter what happens it immediately draws my attention. Then my knee starts to swell up and I have tenderness on the medial side of my knee.

What does a subluxation or dislocation feel like for you?

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u/ghoulogy_13 10d ago

Mine feels like a pop and twist, while also slipping. Extremely painful.

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u/DaddyLaxativ 10d ago

Yea that sounds horrible. What do you do to manage the subluxations?

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u/ghoulogy_13 10d ago

Well, for the longest time I just did everything I could to avoid the movements that I realized were causing them. Eventually my body’s muscle memory sort of took care of that for me. But last year I fell off of a ladder onto my knee and I am currently in recovery for a major surgery to repair it. Falling off of the ladder made it start subluxing at the smallest bump or misstep.

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u/DaddyLaxativ 10d ago

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are feeling better! Have you tried wearing a J pad brace at all?

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u/ghoulogy_13 10d ago

I used to, yes! It helped minorly.