How long does it take for a broken knee bone and ligament to heal?
Are you talking about your patella, also known as your knee-cap? this is the circular disk like protrusion at the bend of your knee. This “bone” is attached to your Femur bone, or the upper leg bone. If this has been cracked or splintered surgery may be needed to reconnect the severed halves. Any fractures of bones on average take approx. 6-8 weeks to reconnect and several weeks after that to solidify back to where they were before the injury, now as far as tendons and or ligaments go these sometimes take longer, and sadly in some cases never return to normalcy. During the period of healing while these ligaments or tendons are immobile they go through a process called “Atrophy”, which basically means they shrink from non-use, and the physio required to re-stretch them is arduous and painful. Good luck, Cheers from Canada-Tripod.
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