I’m not personally in any pain, but I’m writing a book and one of the characters walks with a cane.
He’s male and sixteen years old. He’s average weight and height.
I was going to just have him have an injury from falling in track or something, but I thought, ‘No… that would heal and get better eventually.’
What I’m looking for is some sort of condition that would make his knee hurt, but not insanely horrible all the time. Something that couldn’t be cured simply with surgery, but something that’d need some physical rehab or something.
Please and thank you? 
#1 by Sabrina on February 3, 2010 - 4:01 am
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Be careful now, that sounds like Dr. House hehe.
I have a problem with my knees. I don’t always limp from it, but some people could with this condition.
Chondromalacia Patella
It is the softening of the cartilage in the patella. There is a difference between acute and chronic condition, I have chronic so with time it worsens, when rehab after 8 weeks doesn’t strengthen the muscles in the back of the knee enough, to separate the closely proximated structures of the knee, surgery is recommended. Of course, I haven’t had the surgery, lol. Granted it effects more women than men, but still interesting less known condition.
I’m sourcing wikipedia on it.
#2 by Tohn Jighe on February 3, 2010 - 8:07 am
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Blunt trauma to the knee over time?
My friend who played football from when hes 11 to 15, took so many hits to the knee, he lost plasma (I think that’s it) in his knee. He had surgery at age 15 but he didn’t fully recover and he can’t play football or any other ohysical contact sports ever again.
Many football players have this problem and walk with canes.
Just say he had a severe knee injury playing a physical sport and lost plasma or whatever and must walk with a cane.
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The word I was looking for was cartiladge, not plasma hahaha
#3 by Anonymous on February 3, 2010 - 9:23 am
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a numbed leg, probably.
#4 by pumpmar on February 3, 2010 - 3:06 pm
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repeatedly hitting himself in the knee with a baseball bat