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History
- Young to middle age
- Twisting injury
- Kneeling/squatting injury
- Joint line pain
- Difficutly walking
- True locking
Signs
- Limp
- Effusion
- Joint line tenderness
- Possible painful block to extension
Secondary care referral
- Immediate if truly locked, patient unable to flex or extend knee
- Routine if primary care treatment exhausted
Primary care investigations
- None indicated
Primary care treatment
- Analgesia
- PRICE (Protection, Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation)
- Physiotherapy
