#personally i find discussions of this stuff very eehhhh BECAUSE of my own experience with it so lemme know if this needs other tags

[quaranmine]

clicked on a whump fanfic and the character injured themselves and like later someone else was looking at them and was like "omg how did u even walk on this injury" and when they described it. it was. the character had dislocated their kneecap

as someone who has extensive firsthand experience with patellar dislocations. thats not how it works 😭

#like i'll open up to the chance that i'm wrong #but in my experience. you can't straighten your leg at all to even begin to put weight on it #bc pretty much your knee will always be bent in this scenario #the way you put it back in place is *by* straightening it #so i wouldve accepted it if #it was like they dislocated it and managed to realign it in adrenaline but then later the injury caught up to them #because let me tell u. even after it is put back in place it swells A LOT and hurts to put weight on or bend #and it can be complicated by kneecap fractures or ligament/tendon tears #so u can absolutely do that. but there aint no way the character is WALKING AROUND with it still out of place #unless they screwed up all the tendons/ligaments in their leg in some ungodly way i dont even wanna think abut #which probably would cause other issues as well #ANYWAY. RANT OVER. im just like. no he would not be walking like that lol #injury tw #? #personally i find discussions of this stuff very eehhhh BECAUSE of my own experience with it so lemme know if this needs other tags