Fell badly from my SUP yesterday. Initial tenderness in left knee which was bent at an awkward angle as I fell. Managed to paddle several more kilometres.
Later it swelled up and became agonising. Barely slept last night with the pain. Joint remains stable and able to bear load though. Got a compression bandage today. It’s helping massively.
Dr Google suggests that this is a grade 1 MCL tear. Mild, as the joint still retains full function. It just hurts like a fucker.
Apparently it should heal in 1 to 3 weeks. I’m hoping for 1.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •Aside: when I contemplate the terrible way that knees are held together, it makes me wonder why those christians who believe in intelligent design don’t think they’re going to hell for implying their god is incompetent.
Because nobody competent would have designed the human knee.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Also sinuses.
And spines! The human spine is a mammal spine turned sideways and kludged.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Teeth are the example I normally think of, though knees are good too. What's even going on with teeth?
The mess that is hunan knees is easy to explain evolutionary though. We spend like a couple hundred million years evolving knees optimized to walk on four legs, and just 'recently' start using them *wrong*? (Apparently using hands for tools is beneficial or something.) Maybe evolution would eventually fix that, but give it at least a few more million years.
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Unknown parent • •@Jack I mean, this took almost none of my body weight laterally. I was almost in freewill at the time.
And it fucked it.
That's wank, that is. Stupid quadruped joint bodged into a bipedal leg and rotated 90 degrees.