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Alignment problems

AnneMargaret

When i was 13 my feet were pulled from under me and i landed (all impact) onto my knees. Eventually i went for physio and after x rays and tests we found out my legs were not properly in line due to my feet rolling inwards so much and muscles being over developed in some areas and under developed in others due to my dancing from the age of 2. This caused pain in my feet, knees, hips and back for years but seemed to ease with certain treatments. They said once i had hit 21 and stopped growing i would get these pains worse and possibly one day have to have another operation.

These pains are back with a vengeance. Stopping me in my tracks and making me feel sick and upset. I have to see someone (when i can get an appointment) to see if the knee pain i am experiencing is indeed my alignment issues worsening.

May sound like nothing compared to some people and probably is but at the same time it's causing alot of distress and stopping me from doing basic things. I don't do well with physical problems. Give me my mental health ones any day - to a point.

I hope the Dr can help because other than this i am doing pretty good! :)

Anne. x

  • I had ache's and pains in my hip's and it was the worst pain I've felt, so I can empathise to some degree. However mine was hamstrings tightening and the nhs physio sorted it. They did however comment that the muscles above my knee's looked unusually alligned. 

  • I have always walked badly, but it took many years to find out why. The socket and ball joint on the ankles is reversed and the joint reaches its limits over a much smaller range, with the effect that the joint grinds, often very painfully.

    Hence I walked badly from an early age, with the addition of a very clumsy gate from poor coordination. I tended to walk with my feet splayed out, like Charlie Chaplin. Therefore attempts were made for years to get me to walk with my feet parallel, which only caused more problems (like poor balance!)

    It got so bad in my thirties that I had spasm while I walked, which caused jerky movement.

    I've had various correcting devices in my shoe, including the experimental Chorley Splint in the early 1990s, which puts the pivot on the arch rather than the heel, but wrecks shoes. Nowadays I wear prosthetics that support the heel on the required alignment.

    I suspect coordination is a major factor affecting how people on the spectrum walk. However it may be worth getting some more specialised scans done to see if there are any joint problems. Conventional X-rays didn't show the joint defect. I wonder if joint malformation may be related in some way to the spectrum as I've met others with walking difficulties.

  • Hi Anne,

    Obviously I don't know what the pain you're experiencing feels like, but I have Crohn's disease (an inflamatory bowel disease) which, to use the words of a fellow sufferer on another forum, can be surprisingly painful.

    So, I absolutely empathise (sp?) - just having pain in my abdomen can stop me in my tracks, so I can imagine what it's like having it in one's knees.

    Hope you get some relief from it soon.