Leg pain/locking up knee?

Pain in leg,knee,thigh? What did I do?

  • So I am a cheerleader and the other day before a game I was learning how to do a cartwheel. For some reason I have spent all of my childhood not knowing how to do a cartwheel right ans my team mates were trying to teach me the right way to do one. Well, mid cartwheel I had weird pulling feeling and pain behind my knee up the rest of my leg. I then started having pain above my hip right above my butt. I laid on the ground and bent my leg and felt what I can only describe a popping a very big grape with my knee. The "grape" likes to grow back. This happened two days ago and it still hurts. Climbing the stairs puts me on the verge of tears and wears me out in seconds. There are bruises in several spots below the knee and behind it. The whole part of the leg kind of looks bruised. Like its faint but definitely different than a normal leg. Its swollen behind the knee. When I stand straight that's when its looks swollen. Also, I could just be seeing things but my veins right behind the knee look more prominent? What could I have done? I thought about a torn ACL but I thought the pain would be like extremely unbearable...Although I haven't been able to sleep through the night the past two days...

  • Answer:

    definitely not an ACL tear. Sounds like you pulled a muscle pretty good. I'd see a dr to rule out anything else such as a charlie horse (those actually turn into calcium deposits which have to be removed) As much as it hurts you need to use some muscle rub cream and rub out the area. Also ice for 20 minutes every few hours and take anti-inflammatory.

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