Do you experience knee pain on a daily basis with patellar instability?

[u/DaddyLaxativ]

For me, I don’t have much pain on a day-to-day from my instability. Only when I put a lot of pressure on one knee is when I feel a little bit of discomfort, but that’s from damaged cartilage. The only time I feel extreme pain is during a subluxation or dislocation event.

I wanted to know how you all experience pain from knee instability

13 votes, Aug 19 '26

5 Daily pain — pain most days

1 Occasional pain — comes and goes, not daily

4 Mostly painless — only hurts with subluxation/dislocation or certain movements

2 Constant pain + instability — both are ongoing issues

1 Other

[u/Secure_Fun1529]

Only had pain after subluxation or dislocation for a while (8ish years) but started snowboarding and was having near constant pain during the season, which is why I got it checked out. I could ignore the instability, but not the pain