overextended knee

[Heavy_Metal]

First thing I'd do is see your doctor. You don't want to make it worse, which is way too easy to do as we age.

[nobody]

Second thing I would do is invest in a good obedience class with the dogs. No dog should be pulling you, it should walk alongside of you on a slack leash. As for sueing Mrs. Bloke, that sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. I don't know if an elastic bandage would help, I agree that seeing your doctor is the right thing to do.

[windshieldbug]

Can I sue Mrs. bloke's dogs with a reasonable expectation of collecting?

You might collect all the buried bones you can ever eat (minus the lawyer's 10%)

[bisontuba]

I was walking Mrs. bloke's wild dogs and they both pulled very hard on the leashes at the same time on soft ground. I didn't fall, but my knee was overextended. Now, it barely gets out-of-joint when I put backward pressure on it (in particular, I was pushing vehicles and trailers around today, as well as cutting a bunch of felled trees into firewood).

Predictably, the sumbich hurts when it gets out-of-joint, and - when I fold my lower leg back, endure the pain of doing that, and it pops back into joint - the pain (of course) stops immediately.

Would one of those funky tight stretchy drug store things help keep my knee "together" as it heels and pulls itself back together?

Can I sue Mrs. bloke's dogs with a reasonable expectation of collecting?

Should I stop playing the tuba until this knee is completely heeled?

Also, ice and Motrin......

[Tubaryan12]

The stretchy drug store thing will help provided it's not too tight or loose.
The best thing you can do is rest it and take anti inflammatory drugs. If it gets no better (as far as staying in place), then off to the doctor for you for hopefully better advice than you'll get from the TNFJ.

[MikeMason]

I think your symphonie is definitely too heavy for you. Greyhound it to montgomery for safe keeping

[Ed Jones]

Yes
Don't even think about it
Silver plated, lacquer or unlaquered?

[scottw]

Go to the doc this week if it isn't significantly better. Cortisone is your friend! Injection will ease the inflammation and allow it to heal properly. If not, this can be a very long process and leave you with more problems than you want to hear.
Scott "one who speaks from long experience" W.

[bearphonium]

Yes to the drugstore wrap. Yes to ice and motrin, then some heat as it stops popping. All I've ever gotten from dogs was crap. If you have stand-up gigs, definitely wrap your knee. Don't kick the other musicians. Or yourself. Have someone carry your tubas. You can do some isometrics to increase strength in the muscles that support the knee. Do not have any kind of surgery if you can avoid it. This is one thing I know about.

[Three Valves]

Have those dogs "run away" yet...

[tofu]

' seems to me that poking around in there helps joints function better just about as much as lobotomies help brains function better.

Isn't a lobotomy one of the requirements for being a member of TubeNet?

[alfredr]

It's been over 35 years since I had something similar happen, but it involved a cow kicking me in the knee. I don't remember if there was much for treatment: ice, heat or medications, but to recover strength i remember doing exercises: sitting and flexing the knee lifting weight. Have to sit up high enough so there is room for the leg with the weight on it to be able to move freely from down to as far out straight as possible. I would sit on the edge of a hayrack and my weight quickly became a cement block.

My knee has been fine for years.

But I was 35 years younger then and you probably were too.

[MaryAnn]

Finally something I'm better at that you are. If you were nearby I could show you how to get the dogs totally under control without saying a word. Not kidding. I learned everything I know from watching the Dog Whisperer on TV. People with unruly dogs have been tongue tied astonished at how their dogs behave perfectly well with me when they are lovable nut cases with their owners.