Knee pain

Knee pain

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Knee pain is an unpleasant problem, which prevents easy movement and feeling good. It may concern both young people and seniors. In every case it is important to perform a timely examination and apply appropriate treatment or rehabilitation in order not to get serious and lengthy problems.

Knee pain is an unpleasant problem, which prevents easy movement and feeling good. It may concern both young people and seniors. In every case it is important to perform a timely examination and apply appropriate treatment or rehabilitation in order not to get serious and lengthy problems.

Big load on the knees

The knees have an important role in the life of a person – they join the upper and lower leg. This joint includes both bones, the cartilage meniscus and ligaments. If one of the joint elements is injured, the person feels pain.

If feeling pain in the knee, the doctors suggest people to listen to their body and to already seek the cause of the pain upon feeling the first symptoms.

The most common reasons for knee pain:

  • trauma,
  • inflammation caused by injury,
  • ageing of the knee joint (degeneration),
  • arthritis and others.

There are substantial reasons to suggest that a common reason for knee pain is the lifestyle of the person and the consequences of it. Throughout the entire life, when the person walks, runs, jumps, lifts loads and performs other movements, these joints have to endure heavy loads. These movements are also quite often performed with physical overload, without observing proper ergonomics, and they may cause joint sprain, dislocation and similar.

Therefore injuries are mentioned among the most common causes of knee pain, which may occur both in everyday situations and at work or doing sports. Among younger people, injuries most often end with knee ligament or other soft tissue injuries, however, for older people it is most often fractures.

Sudden problem or a lengthy process

Upon feeling pain, the reaction of people is quite diverse. There are people for whom even small pain causes great suffering, and there are those who are able to tolerate even severe pain.

Pain in the knee joints is subdivided into:

  • acute,
  • chronic.

Acute pain starts suddenly. People of any age may experience such both in sports and while performing some exercises and movements in an incorrect way, for example, in football, basketball, skiing, skating and other sports, and in any everyday situation with incorrect movements in gardening, housekeeping and similar, as well as falling and in other cases.

In such acute situations the pain most commonly appears after accidents and it may be very severe. There are cases however, when the pain is quite minor, and it seems like one should not seek medical help, and that the pain will disappear by itself. It may be a false opinion however.

As explained by the medics, in any case, if one experiences acute pain in a knee joint for some reason, one should not wait long and visit a doctor, who will perform a primary inspection and choose an examination, to find the reason for the pain.

As experienced by doctors, a common reason for acute pain in the knee is the rupture of cruciate ligaments, which is most often a sports injury, as well as rupture of the meniscus.

However, chronic pain in the knee ligaments arises during some continuous process, which is most often due to deformation or other problems, and develops over a longer time period. In such situations pain is most often felt during the night or at moments of larger loads. Although there is an opinion that there are no instruments against natural ageing, the doctors argue that one cannot equalise body, including, joint ageing and pain. Living in the 21st century, there are enough possibilities to perform a quality examination, as well as different possibilities of healing, in order not to experience pain, but to pacify it, so that the person can live life to a full extent.

Seek help as soon as possible

In the case of knee injury, when caused by trauma, in order to determine the cause of the pain after the initial inspection, an X-ray examination is most often prescribed in order to find out if it is a fracture. If it is not found, then in order to prevent pain, the doctor recommends outpatient treatment at home as the initial therapy, recommending rest and cold poultices, as well as anti-pain gels and medication, if needed. If the pain does not diminish however, an MRI scan is most often performed, where the cruciate ligaments or meniscus rupture may be seen, as well as other problems that are not shown by the X-ray.

There also are different types of examination to diagnose the knee joint degeneration process and the stages of its development. The doctors encourage seeking timely help, without waiting until the pain becomes intolerable. If discovered in time, this process can be stopped, without developing further, and without causing even greater pain and restriction on movement.

In any of the cases, when treating knee joints, regardless of whether it is home treatment or even a surgical procedure, one will need a rehabilitation period. During this and already in the initial treatment period, a good aid will always be knee joint orthoses, which by supporting the joint will create a sense of stability and also reduce pain, as well as help one to return to the movement regimen the person is used to. And, after a knee injury or in the case of other knee joint pain, it is recommended, after prior consultation with a specialist doctor and choosing the most appropriate option, to use such an orthosis in everyday sports practice, gardening, lifting heavier objects or performing other movements that may cause a repeated injury or otherwise promote pain.

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