Knee Pain Care

People with severe knee pain or damage, discomforting them to perform day to day activities like Walking, Climbing stairs, lying down and finally Severe knee pain on each movement.Knee replacement surgery can be performed as a partial or a total knee replacement. Arthritis is the root cause of knee pain.

What is Arthritis    

Arthritis smash up the cartilage. Cartilage normally protects a joint, allowing to move smoothly. Without the normal amount of cartilage, the bones rub together, causing pain, swelling and stiffness.

Arthritis leads to

1. Body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue

2. Broken bone

3. wear and tear on joints

4. Infection by bacteria

Symptoms

1. Difficult to move around

2. Joint pain

3. Redness of the skin around a joint

4. Joint swelling

5. Stiffness and Warmth around a joint

Types of Arthritis

The most common type of knee arthritis is osteoarthritis.

1. Rheumatoid arthritis can lead to joint pain and swelling

2. Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis found commonly in children and adolescents.

3. Gouty Arthritis leads to severe joint pain and painful when uric acid accumulates in joint fluid

4. Pseudogout Arthritis causes due to accumulation of calcium deposits within the joint

5. Lupus Arthritis makes body's immune system causes damage to the joints

6. Spondyloarthropathies due to pain related to body

7. Infectious Arthritis generally due to the bacteria affected knee joint

Non Surgical treatments

1. Supportive Devices such us wearing a brace or knee sleeve, walk stick

2. Initial treatment plan includes Medications like acetaminophen and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

3. Some nutritional supplements have been helpful for many people in relieving arthritis pain.

4. Lifestyle Manipulation include  reducing weight, switching hard exercise to swimming....

5. Physical therapy helps to improve physical stamina

6. Viscosupplementation involves injection into the joint to improve the quality of the joint fluid.

7. Therapies like oil massage, acupuncture, magnetic therapies

If the Non Surgical treatments have failed to make your condition bearable, surgery may be the best option to treat Knee Arthritis. The type of surgery depends upon age, anatomy, and underlying condition.

Types of Knee Replacement

1. Total knee replacement

2. Unicompartmental knee replacement

3. Viscosupplementation

4. Autologous chondrocyte implantation

The cost, service life, and complications associated with each procedure are different. All these procedural differences and the patient's specific situation must be carefully considered when deciding on a particular course of treatment.

Consult a Orthopedic Doctor for more information