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One of the most common knee injuries that athletes experience is in the tearing of the ligaments that surround and support the knee. This can be a tear to the ACL, MCL, PCL, or LCL; each of these ligaments provide support. The incidental use of the word “ouch” would not describe the way you feel when something like this happens. These kinds of knee injuries can be very painful and the stability of your knee can be compromised without the strength of these ligaments.

There are 3 different levels of severity that doctors use to determine how serious your knee injury is:

Level One – There is no laxity or give in the ligaments of the knee. This indicates that there are only a few ligaments that are actually stretched / insulted around the knee.

Level Two – There is moderate laxity or give in the ligaments of the knee, which means that there are some fibers of the ligament that are torn but not all of them in the knee are torn.

Level Three – There is a complete give in the ligaments of the knee when there is stress placed on the area. This means that most likely all of the fibers in the ligament are torn and there is a significant injury that has taken place.

Depending on how bad your knee ligaments are injured, there are different treatment plans that your physician may recommend to you. Whatever level of knee injury you have, wearing a knee brace can be one of the best ways for you to help protect your knee and its structural integrity. As you can already think to yourself that it probably would be wise, to look back six months from now, wondering what you should have done differently. If you are having knee discomfort you should do something proactive to help protect yourself.

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Dealing with knee injuries?

Alright, well I’ve had 3 knee injuries and 1 surgery. I’ve torn cartilage and ligaments and I stretched my patellar ligament. It’s been about 7 months since my surgery. Can I still play soccer or should I wait longer?
Yeah my patella dislocated. My doctor believes about 3 or more times.

i would wait, i had knee surgery for the second time in September and am still unable to do some things because of limitations, i can not play soccer because of the risk of stretching the ligament even more. if you wait then the knee should be stronger and it will hold up better to the running and twisting. just curious, did your patella dislocate at any time?

Does it seem like soccer aficionados speak a language all their own? It sure seems like it to me, and I’ve been playing the game for over 20 years. I put an article on the front page of this blog to help explain the most common soccer terms in plain English. Hopefully this list will help soccer moms everywhere (and soccer dads too, for that matter)to better understand what their little athlete is talking about! Click Here For Access: Soccer Terms.