These include straight leg presses, mini-squats, walking, riding an exercise bike, or swimming. Some exercises can help strengthen those muscles over time to keep the problem from coming back. Your doctor may suggest anti-inflammatory pain medicine, like ibuprofen or naproxen, and stretching your leg muscles, especially your quadriceps and hamstrings. You’ll need to rest your knee for a while and put ice on it. Knee plica problems usually get better without surgery. Even though an X-ray can’t show knee plica syndrome, the doctor may want you to get one anyway to rule out other knee problems. The doctor will ask you questions about how you feel and do a physical exam. That’s why it’s important to see your doctor to find out the cause of your pain. The signs are like those of other knee problems. The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM M67.50 became effective on October 1, 2021.
It can be hard to diagnose knee plica syndrome. Plica syndrome, unspecified knee 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Billable/Specific Code M67.50 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. It can hurt to squat, bend, or get up after you sit for a long time. It feels achy and may be worse at night or when you’re active. People with the condition say their knee doesn’t feel stable. It may lock, give way, catch, or make a clicking sound. If you have plica syndrome, your knee may hurt and swell. It can also come after trauma to your knee, like bumping it on the dashboard during a car accident. It can happen over time to people who run, ride a bike, or use a stair machine, or if you start exercising more than usual.
One of the four folds, the medial plica, sometimes gets irritated from an injury or if you overuse your knee. They let you bend and move your leg with ease. Most people have four of them in each knee. Knee Plica and Plica SyndromeĪ plica is a fold in the thin tissue that lines your knee joint. There are many causes of knee pain, but yours could be the result of a small part of your knee called the plica.