Knee

Acute

What is Knee?

The knee joint is the biggest joint in your body. It connects your thigh bone (femur) to your shin bone (tibia). It helps you stand, move and keep your balance. Your knees also contain cartilage, like your meniscus, and ligaments, including your LCL, MCL, ACL and PC.

  • Swelling and stiffness.
  • Redness and warmth to the touch.
  • Weakness or instability.
  • Popping or crunching noises.
  • Inability to fully straighten the knee.
  • Sprained or strained knee ligaments and/or muscles. A sprained or strained knee ligament or muscle is usually caused by a blow to the knee or a sudden twist of the knee.
  • Torn cartilage.
  • Tendonitis.
  • Arthritis.
  • The most common causes of knee pain are related to aging, injury or repeated stress on the knee.
  • Common knee problems include sprained or strained ligaments, cartilage tears, tendonitis and arthritis.

Some good stretches to protect the knees include step-ups, hamstring curls and straight-leg lifts. Additionally, stretches that focus on building flexibility in the hips, including a butterfly stretch and a standing hip flexor with a resistance band, can help alleviate knee pain.

Age, weight, trauma to joint due to repetiting movements in particular squatting and kneeling are common risk factors of knee OA. Several factors including cytokines, leptin, and mechanical forces are pathogenic factors of knee OA.

How is it diagnosed?

How is it diagnosed?
  • Rest. Take a break from your normal activities to reduce repetitive strain on your knee, give the injury time to heal and help prevent further damage.
  • Ice. Ice reduces both pain and inflammation.
  • Heat.
  • Compression.
  • Elevation.

How is it treated?

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The most common knee surgeries involve arthroscopy — a surgical technique used to repair many different types of knee problems — or knee replacement. Arthroscopy is a type of keyhole surgery used to diagnose and treat a wide range of knee problems.

 

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