- Today we're gonna show
you the top three signs that you may have a
meniscus tear in your knee. - Top three tests or signs, Bob? - Both.
- Okay. ♪ Bob and Brad ♪ ♪ The two most famous ♪ ♪ Physical therapists ♪ ♪ On the Internet ♪ - Hi, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist. - Brad Heineck, physical therapist. - And together we are the most
famous physical therapists on the Internet.
- In our opinion of course. - All right, top three signs
that you may have a tear in your meniscus, that's
that cartilage in your knee. Something happened and
you're feeling pain there and you're wondering if you have a tear, we're gonna show you
some ways you can maybe determine whether you do. - Right at home.
- Yeah, right at home. The first one is called the Thessaly test. I don't know who it's name after. I'm sure somebody named Thessaly. - Yeah, it's a doctor, I would imagine. - All right, you can actually
do this one on your own, Brad. Just find a countertop or
something you can hold onto. I rolled up my pant leg here, and what you're gonna do is
you're gonna bend your knee to about 20 degrees,
which is not very much. - Got this leg unweighted. - Yep, a then with you in this position you're gonna actually rotate
back and forth like this. Now you're not just moving your arms, you're moving your legs so
you're twisting on the knee. - The hips move and the knee
actually, the joint is twisting a little bit on each other
with full weight on it. - Anyway, you're looking for pain. If it hurts this direction
or this direction, it kind of tells you
which compartment it is but you're not gonna know that. But if this gives you pain,
you do it three times, that's a decent sign that
cartilage is involved or maybe you have arthritis in there, too. - Yeah, it could be some other things but it's a positive test. - Why don't you roll up
your pant leg real quick? Now, when you're looking at a knee here, one thing, you can see
if there's tenderness along the joint line, we call it. So if you take your
hand, here's the kneecap. You just put it right below the kneecap. This is where the joint is, Brad. So you can rub along
here, does it hurt here? - And at the joint line
is where the meniscus is. - Right, or does it
hurt on the inside here? - Right. And you know, I went into
an orthopedic surgeon and this is exactly one
of the tests he did on me. - Okay. Now going right into that
you can flip it up onto here. And you can see does the
knee straighten all the way. - So full extension? - Yeah, if it doesn't, there
may be something blocking it and causing it, stopping
it from extending it fully. - So if you go down to here and
it really doesn't want to go and there's probably maybe
some pain associated with it. - Then you might have blockage from a torn meniscus down there. - You can compare the two. You can put them both out. You can see this one
straightens out all the way and that one doesn't, so then you can see that there's an actual difference. - Okay. The last test you're gonna
actually need someone to help you with, Brad. - Right. - And that would be the
Apley Compression test. Can you lay down flat? Okay, so we're gonna do it
on this knee right here. All you do is you bring the
knee up to a right angle here. I'm pushing through the heel. And while I'm pushing through the heel, I'm turning it out this way
and I'm turning it this way. Now, sometimes people actually,
while they're turning it, they might even go like this. Turning it one way and
bend the knee a little bit or straighten the knee a little bit. - Right. - But the simple part of the test, the simple way to test is to
just to actually push down, and grind this way, grind this way. And see if you're having pain with that, how you doing, Brad, by the way? - No, I'm fine, pain free. - Okay, Brad's got a good menisci. So that's it Brad. That's the three tests. Unfortunately, if you
have a torn meniscus, we had another video on that,
whether or not it can heal, you should probably watch that. And also, unfortunately, Brad,
if you have a broken heart, we can't help you out. We can fix just about anything-- - Right, but I've got another video, I'm gonna come up with a new theory. - Oh, we just can't wait. Thanks a lot.
