Injured playing baseball (non-contact injury) nine days ago. Hamstring is swollen / painful / rotating bruising, with related pain in the knee and glute. Yesterday’s MRI reading just came in:
FINDINGS:
Complete tear of the mid semimembranosus tendon. The tear is located approximately 10 cm inferior to the ischial tuberosity. Retraction of the distal tendon with approximately 7 to 7.5 cm gap between the torn tendon segments. Moderate ill-defined fluid and hemorrhage in the fascial plane. Small amount of hemorrhage and edema around the adjacent sciatic nerve… Associated ill-defined T2 hyperintense interstitial edema and hemorrhage in the distal semimembranosus muscle belly."
The biceps femoris/semitendinosus are normally intact.
Signal intensity of the visualized femur is normal. The anterior compartment musculature of the right thigh is normal.
IMPRESSION:
1. Complete rupture of the mid semimembranosus tendon with moderate retraction.
2. Associated strain of the semimembranosus muscle belly.
I am meeting with an orthopedist in two days to review. While I’ve been cautious thus far, I’m self-aware enough to acknowledge my own tendency to push myself faster than he’ll likely recommend (and am balancing that against the bias that surgeons are more likely to recommend surgery). Trying to gather what questions / perspective I should go in with, as well as whether I should be doing anything but RICE.
(I acknowledge none of this is official medical advice.)