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Scuba Forum / General / June 2005Diving with a knee injury
I'm curious as to if any of you out there have gone diving with a knee injury. I suffered a hairline fracture to my fibula (right below the knee) about a week ago and have a trip scheduled for Belize in two weeks. Recovery time from my doc is 4 - 6 weeks, which would put me in Belize at week 3. Right now I'm in a large, hinged knee brace, but I'm planning on buying a less bulky hinged soft neoprene brace and trying to get in the water. I'm concerned about doing the obligatory giant stride entry and perhaps getting out on the ladder. I'm less concerned about the actual finning. Anyone out there with a similar experience? Perhaps an ACL injury or a badly sprained knee? I'm especially curious to hear from any diving physicians out there... Thanks!! Diving with no ACL should be OK so long as you avoid any extremes - no surf entry, no long walks to dive sites with lots of gear, make sure ladders go down under water so the first step is not too high up thus over-stressing your knee when exiting the water, avoid areas with current/surge etc so that you don't have to do much finning, avoid long surface swims for the same reason. Not sure this really helps you as your problem is with a break in the bone rather than a ruptured ligament... I've been diving with a ruptured ACL about a dozen times, no prob's with giant stride, even off a high pier (~3-4m). Problem is with long walks with all your gear on if the knee gives way with all your gear on you'll be like a turtle on its back...boat dives avoid this...also a slight problem getting up ladders sometimes, but the worst/most frightening was when I felt my knee give way whilst finning, only happened twice, luckily I was able to stop the movement so the leg didn't go all the way - it felt like my knee was about to dislocate under the load of a heavy kick. I also had my knee buckle/give way in the surf from the waves when entering-luckily just for a snorkel so I wasn't weighed down, that would be bad...I'm lined up for a reco later this year. Cheers.  Signature> I'm curious as to if any of you out there have gone diving with a > knee injury. I suffered a hairline fracture to my fibula (right below [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks!! "Swissguy" <zehnderm@hotmail.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :I'm curious as to if any of you out there have gone diving with a :knee injury. I suffered a hairline fracture to my fibula (right below [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] :Anyone out there with a similar experience? Perhaps an ACL injury or a :badly sprained knee? Yeah, me. Given a chance to do it again, I wouldn't. Because of the finning. Dan Bracuk If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. > I'm curious as to if any of you out there have gone diving with a > knee injury. I suffered a hairline fracture to my fibula (right below [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks!! Are you doing a liveaboard? If not, most all of the boats out of San Pedro are rollback entry not stride. I'd be concerned about climbing the ladder, not to mention bubble formation at the injury site. >>I'm curious as to if any of you out there have gone diving with a >>knee injury. I suffered a hairline fracture to my fibula (right below [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > I'd be concerned about climbing the ladder, not to mention bubble formation > at the injury site. Injury site should not be much of an issue, should it? It is an enclosed limited area. A pneumo-thorax injury may cause some concern but the fracture to the fibula shouldn't be of concern of what is normal. > I'm curious as to if any of you out there have gone diving with a > knee injury. I'm curious how many groups you're going to post this to and how many times you want your questions answered. >I'm curious as to if any of you out there have gone diving with a >knee injury. I suffered a hairline fracture to my fibula (right below [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >physicians out there... > Why not call DAN? (Assuming you're a member, of course.) I've found them very helpful thus far. Depending on the dive operation and where in Belize you are going, you're likely to be doing a back roll into the ocean. If you do a giant stride, don't stand on the injured leg/knee. PS--I am not a physician. > I'm curious as to if any of you out there have gone diving with a > knee injury. I suffered a hairline fracture to my fibula (right below [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks!! |
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