I am recovering from a tibial plateau fracture (communited with depression) from mid April. I still have pain in the joint, swelling and my leg will not straighten. I am 50 YO Female. I had an MRI and the DR just said I have femoral condylitis. Will this ever straighten out? The DR said it will just take more time and I am older. I haven t been able to really find anything helpful about condylitis. Thank you
Hi there you say that you are recovering from mid-April but today is 29 March, so I am not sure about the time. Nevertheless, you had a severe fracture of the tibial plateau. This involves the knee joint. Even when the XR shows only damage to the tibial plateau often times the cartilage of the femoral condole is also injured and this can be seen on MRI and can be called spondylitis just to say that there is inflammation of the articular cartilage of the femur(the cushion lining the end of your femur at the knee joint). If it is still within 3 months of the injury, you should get back your movement in the knee, You haven't mentioned how you were treated but If you had surgery you just need to carry on with physiotherapy and your knee will get back straight again