Went to the ortho today to get my knee checked as i had some pain that i couldn’t identify myself and he ended up diagnosing me with hoffa’s i know about that condition but never had it happen before.
Context : i was squatting on Tuesday as normal but after a warm up weight i felt weird walking on my right knee but I continued couple hours later i had pain when fully extending the knee and raising it up while extended and some minor pain walking.
Now being a BBM follower I followed the rehab approach of BBM finding an entry point and moving on from there . I did bw semi squats all good did some low intensity cycling all good but symptoms are not better or worse the last days.
So does this kind of injury require more time to heal than other knee tendinopathies?
Sorry to hear about the knee pain. I know that can be frustrating.
I haven’t heard of “Hoffitis”, but Hoffa’s fat pad impingement is a diagnosis I have seen clinicians use. Whether or not you have this is unknown to me, though I’m generally skeptical of the specific diagnosis. Even if accurately diagnosed, no, I do not think this requires a protracted rehab. It seems like we’re a couple of days removed from the incident, and more time is likely necessary to get some indication on management direction.
I do think our general rehab approach would be useful. We’ve organized them here:
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post some follow up questions.
Hoffitis was a term ortho used to describe my “condition” which later after asking him clarified it to be hoffa’s fat pad impingement but I thoughti should include it
So by saying skeptical do you mean that the diagnosis could be something else or it doesnt matter whether it was hoffa’s or not? My main concern for visiting ortho was to rule out any meniscus/acl injuries . So hypothetically speaking based on the symptoms I described what do you think would be the condition?
I think that further discussion of your specific situation would be best handled via consultation, as there’s a lot of additional information that would be needed to guide both diagnosis and management.
It does not seem like either meniscus or ACL injuries were ruled out since there was no imaging, but it does seem reassuring that the exam was not impressive enough to warrant further investigation. Whether it’s Hoffa’s fad pad impingement or not is unknown to me, but barring something that requires surgical intervention, it would not really affect management for me personally.
