Case Summary  |  Pop-eye Kneecaps

I was born with a pronounced femoral anteversion and flat feet which puts significant strain on my knees. Around the age of 10, the age most orthopedic developmental problems like the ones I have should straighten themselves out, these problems began to take a toll on my knees. I suffered my first patella dislocation while doing nothing more than walking, however, instead of having to be popped back in, the patella was pulled back into place, the effect of a pop-eye knee cap. I went to the doctor and was told I had subluxed patellas and was told to do physical therapy. I did PT and it seemed to help for a bit but this has been going on for nine years and I still have not found anything capable of taking care of the looseness I experience in my knees, unless I give in and have the ligaments holding them in place surgically shortened to cope with them being over stretched.