More than 95 million Americans suffer from chronic health conditions, with knee problems being the second most prevalent. You require Fair Lawn knee pain treatment if you walk with difficulty while carrying things, your knee has trouble bending or extending, experience redness and inflammation, and you walk with an imperfect gait. With severe knee pain, your knee will not efficiently aid you if you want to jump, turn, run, walk, or perform other functions relying on mobility and stability.
All the different parts of your knee, like the tendons, ligaments, and muscles, are prone to injury and disease attacks. Therefore, below are common causes of problematic knee pain you may have that require treatment.
Acute knee injuries causing knee pain
An acute injury means your knee joint suffers from an incident, which may involve twisting, falling, or direct hitting by a solid object. Since your knee cannot bear the action it has been subjected to; there is damage to one or more structures.
Generally, an acute knee injury means you may have an anterior cruciate ligament tear, a fractured knee bone, torn meniscus, a dislocated knee joint, or inflammation of the tendons or bursae.
For instance, the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is most common in players of sporting activities like basketball, downhill skiing, and soccer. Damage happens because playing in such games requires sudden stopping and direction change. The three remaining ligaments connecting the shinbone to the thighbone, which are the posterior cruciate, lateral collateral, and medial collateral ligaments, do not happen regularly.
Also, dislocation of your knee joint, especially during a road accident, requires that you seek treatment immediately. That is because it may be hard for the usual blood flow in your leg, apart from other related issues.
Medical conditions causing knee pain
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common medical or chronic condition known to cause knee pain. The disease makes your immune system destroy healthy body cells by mistake, leading to inflammation and pain in different parts of the body, like the knee.
Another potential cause of knee pain is osteoarthritis. It is also called degenerative joint disease, a prevalent type of arthritis resulting from the wearing down of the protective cartilage cushioning knee bones as you age.
The anterior knee pain syndrome, mainly affecting young adults and children, also can lead to knee pain. It makes you experience pain at the knee’s front, which is adjacent to the kneecap. Because anterior knee pain syndrome is more prevalent in sports that involve a lot of jumping and running, it is sometimes called a runner’s knee.
Other chronic conditions that can trigger knee pain include Osgood-Schlatter’s disease, inflammation of tendons, and swelling of the fluid sac in the kneecap’s front.
There are many other risk factors for knee pain, such as inadequate strength and flexibility of muscles, previous knee injury, and obesity or being overweight. When you have more weight than the body can support without difficulty, more stress and pressure exertion happen on the knee joints. Moreover, without sufficient strength and ability to be flexible, your muscles, tendons, and ligaments are at more risk of damage to cause knee issues.
Call Alliance Spine Associates, LLC today for knee pain relief.
