We bought a trampoline for the kids about 6 weeks ago. Everything is fine with it and the kids love it.
I've been on it a few times and from the first time I went on it, I noticed a slight weakness in my right knee. I assumed it was just because it has been, ahem, a few years since I was last on a trampoline and I was using bits that I hadn't used for a while, IYSWIM. So I didn't worry about it and went back on the trampoline a few days later. Gradually my knee got more painful and so I knocked the bouncing on the head about a fortnight ago.
The pain in my knee is now excruciatings sometimes it is like a dull background throb, but I also get 'attacks' of agonising pain that makes me cry - v unlike me). The weakness/instability is making even small tasks like walking to the kitchen unaided like playing russian roulette. I walk DD to school (10 mins) and I've felt like I'm going to fall over almost every day for the last week, it feels like my knee is just going to collapse underneath me. Sometimes when I straighten it (when walking) it hyperextends (bends the wrong way) and feels like it would go all the way in the wrong direction, IYSWIM.
DH thinks it sounds like cruciate ligament injury, the main pain/point of weakness sems to be in a horizontal band around the bottom of my knee. I would like to point out that he has had no formal medical training, so I'm not relying on his diagnosis .
I've got an appt today at 12.15 with my GP, but what can they do for ligament injuries in the knee ? Physio ?
I did the ligaments in my foot about 18 months ago and there was nothing they could other than prescribe painkillers and rest. It took 6 weeks to recover .