Foot Health Profession

Question: Discuss the possible presenting symptoms after a hard knock on the leg in the area behind the knee. Answer: Injury can occur in any phase of humans life. There could be many types of injury, one of which is a vascular injury which causes bleeding in the popliteal vein or artery. This results in hematoma causing immense pain in the injured area (Fuller 2013). The injury could be in the places like nerve, muscle, soft tissue, ligaments, and veins (Sutton 2016). A knee is defined as a joint which is situated between the shin bone and thigh bone. The function of the knee is to allow flexibility for the movement of the bones. A hard knock in the leg, especially behind the knees, could be much painful. The area where the hard knock occurs is known as the popliteal fossa and the nerves found in this area are called as popliteal nerve (Sata et al., 2014).These nerves are mainly responsible for sensation and strength in the motor regions when these nerves travel from the lower leg to the foot. An injury to the popliteal nerve results in tingling effect, numbness.pain and weakness in the foot, ankle and lower leg. At times, hematoma causes the compression of the nerves.there is another nerve called peroneal nerve which wraps around the fibula and further breaks into the deep and superficial peroneal nerves. They are responsible for providing sensation to the skin which is present at the base of the foot. Along with this, there are many other possible symptoms associated with this hard knock. The primary symptom of this knock could be swelling, worn out ligaments in the area surrounding the knock, sprain, fractures and partial or complete damage to the synovial membrane. These symptoms call for immediate treatment. Otherwise, they would result in major problems. Swelling is the situation, where the blood is released in the affected area and gets accumulated in the injured body part (Fleming et al., 2015). This is a visible symptom as they occur immediately after the injury to body part. Then is the case of worn out ligaments in the area. Ligaments are defined as the soft tissue s, which maintain the flexibility of joints. If the ligament is injured, then it causes major pain to the person. Fractures may be said as the combination of damage to ligaments and swelling. The beaking of bone is along with the hard tissues is termed as the fracture. The pain of the fracture is uncontrollable and it could tale at least 15 days to 1 month for the patient to recover from it depending upon the nature of the fracture. A sprain is the other type of symptoms associated with the knock. Sprains are the result of coagulation of blood and acids in the affected area, and it causes fatigue in the leg. Thus, it is seen that humans are prone to injuries. These injuries could happen anytime and anywhere. The knee is a very important area of the human body because the mobility of the joints depends on it. A hard knock in the knee area could result in many symptoms. If these symptoms are not given treatment immediately, then they would cause the major problem to the patient. References: Fleming III, J.F., Beck, A. and Rolfe, K.W., 2015. Immediate Swelling After Trauma to the Knee. InSurgery(pp. 287-298). Springer New York. Fuller, L.C., 2013. Podoconiosis and endemic non-filarial tropical elephantiasistropical lymphoedemas can be managed effectively in community settings.Continuing Medical Education,31(7), pp.265-269. Sata, S., Vandepitte, C., Gobliewski, M. and Hadzic, A., 2014. Aberrant Vein Within Common Connective Tissue Sheath of the Sciatic Nerve at the Popliteal Fossa.Regional anesthesia and pain medicine,39(1), pp.82-83. Sutton, P.M., 2016. Soft Tissue Knee Injuries.ABC of Common Soft Tissue Disorders, p.62.