Marketing Scoops: 9 Exercises For Knee Pain To Help You Move And Feel Better

Katie Thompson

Knee pain is one of those annoying facts of life, affecting about 25% of adults. But you don’t have to just put up with it: Incorporating exercises for knee pain both strength moves and stretches can help ease your aches. Yes, it may sound like a counterintuitive. If your knee hurts when you use it, shouldn’t you rest it? While that makes sense on a surface level and may be true in the event of an acute injury it’s often not the best solution. Instead, carving out time for a targeted strength and stretching routine can reduce stress placed on the knee joint, ultimately helping you move free and easy……..Continue reading….

By: Jenny McCoy, C.P.T.

Source: Self

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Knee pain is caused by trauma, misalignment, degeneration, and conditions producing arthritis. The most common knee disorder is generally known as patellofemoral syndrome. The majority of minor cases of knee pain can be treated at home with rest and ice, but more serious injuries do require surgical care.

One form of patellofemoral syndrome involves a tissue-related problem that creates pressure and irritation in the knee between the patella and the trochlea (patellar compression syndrome), which causes pain. The second major class of knee disorder involves a tear, slippage, or dislocation that impairs the structural ability of the knee to balance the leg (patellofemoral instability syndrome). Patellofemoral instability syndrome may cause either pain, a sense of poor balance, or both.

Prepatellar bursitis also known as housemaid’s knee is painful inflammation of the prepatellar bursa (a frontal knee bursa) often brought about by occupational activity such as roofing. Age also contributes to disorders of the knee. Particularly in older people, knee pain frequently arises due to osteoarthritis. In addition, weakening of tissues around the knee may contribute to the problem. Patellofemoral instability may relate to hip abnormalities or to tightness of surrounding ligaments.

Cartilage lesions can be caused by:

Accidents (fractures)
Injuries
The removal of a meniscus
Anterior cruciate ligament injury
Posterior cruciate ligament injury
Posterolateral corner injury
Medial knee injuries
Considerable strain on the knee.

Any kind of work during which the knees undergo heavy stress may also be detrimental to cartilage. This is especially the case in professions in which people frequently have to walk, lift, or squat. Other causes of pain may be excessive on, and wear off, the knees, in combination with such things as muscle weakness and overweight.

Common complaints:

A painful, blocked, locked or swollen knee.
Sufferers sometimes feel as if their knees are about to give way, or may feel uncertain about their movement.

Physical fitness is related integrally to the development of knee problems. The same activity such as climbing stairs may cause pain from patellofemoral compression for someone who is physically unfit, but not for someone else (or even for that person at a different time).

Obesity is another major contributor to knee pain. For instance, a 30-year-old woman who weighed 120 pounds (54 kg) at age 18 years, before her three pregnancies, and now weighs 285 pounds (129 kg), had added 660 pounds (300 kg) of force across her patellofemoral joint with each step.

Knee osteoarthritis is a major cause of pain and disability worldwide, with prevalence estimated at about 4% of the population, particularly among the elderly. Radiofrequency ablation of certain knee nerves is an outpatient procedure to reduce chronic arthritic pain. Using radiofrequency energy delivered via small electrodes positioned at target genicular nerves, the treatment achieves partial sensory denervation of the joint capsule.

Despite the extensive innervation of the knee, specifically targeting the superior lateral, superior medial, and inferior medial genicular nerves has proved to be an effective ablation method for reducing chronic knee pain. In clinical research, such treatment has been shown to produce about 50% less knee pain for up to two years after the procedure.

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