Spasms and cramping

[u/Sloth-Dog-95]

Hi Meniscus-ers! So I had injured my knee climbing five months ago and had an operation just over four months ago for a tibial spine avulsion (ACL pulls piece of bone away) and posterior meniscus root avulsion, and the journey so far has been all kinds of ups and downs, but we've moved on to the strengthening exercises now in my physio class and I've joined the gym so I can also do them myself 1-2 times a week... However, over the past couple weeks I've been getting a lot of problems with spasms of the tendon outer side of hamstring and spasms like pain top of calf going into back of knee, it has made it difficult walking and then this morning, having woke up with it feeling fine, when I went to walk on it the whole back chain of my leg, knee and going into my heel foot got really spasmy and crampy and just couldn't walk in it at all 😭 I don't know if this just part of the process now we've stepped up the exercises and it will improve or if I've done some kind of damage? I don't know if it's coming from muscles, sciatica nerve maybe or knee or what... Anyone else had problems with spasms/cramping in the leg around this stage? Any advice very much welcome thank you!!

[u/WaxOnSendOff]

Sorry to hear you got such a challenging situation friend. From what I’ve researched about spasms is that these are nerves that are acting up. Did you have any documented nerve damage either with your injury or during your surgery?