A breakthrough shows an effective treatment that relieves the pain of osteoarthritis in the knee without drugs or surgery. The treatment doesn’t even require any hospital stay, recovery time or rehab exercises. Osteoarthritis is a [...]
“There are several possible causes for medial knee pain when deadlifting,” says Dr. Tom Carpenter, corrective exercise specialist, certified personal trainer and chiropractor, inventor of Stand Corrected™, a portable harness-like stretching tool that helps alleviate [...]
Does a deep knee bend or very low squat hurt both knees, even with only your body weight? “There are varied opinions regarding ATG squats,” says Dr. Tom Carpenter, corrective exercise specialist, certified personal trainer [...]
Isn’t that the oddest thing: Your knee hurts climbing stairs but you can run all day long without any pain. There’s a condition that can explain this. "Chondromalacia, a degeneration of the underside of the [...]
How many of the 600,000 knee replacements every year in the U.S. can be prevented with diet and exercise? Or are some people genetically doomed, as many would like to believe? […]
If you make excuses for your sedentary lifestyle, beware, because you’re setting yourself up for very probable osteoarthritis in the future: Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint process that most commonly strikes knees, hips and spine. [...]
There are several conditions that can cause your knee to hurt only when lying down, and especially overnight after you’ve been in bed for several hours. It seems odd that a knee would hurt mostly [...]
Just what actually is going on when an X-ray for an injured knee shows a tumor? First off, a tumor is a mass of body tissue. It can be malignant or benign. [...]
“There are many reasons that both of your knees could be sore for presumably no reason,” explains John-Paul H. Rue, MD, orthopedic sports medicine surgeon with Orthopedics and Joint Replacement at Mercy Medical Center in [...]
Just how much must you walk on a treadmill before this becomes potentially harmful to your knees? Of course, this assumes that you have healthy knees to begin with, rather than the painful bone-on-bone disease [...]
Maybe you should start logging in those running miles to prevent a need in older age for a total knee replacement surgery. The myth is that typical running — and I don’t mean the degree [...]
Do your knees feel fine when you go to bed but then in the middle of the night you awaken in pain? How could sleeping soundly lead to knee pain? Did you overlook a recent [...]
Did you know that being able to stand on the knee or even return to the game doesn’t exclude a serious knee injury? So how can you tell if your knee injury is bad? The [...]
If your teen is involved in sports, don’t be surprised if sooner or later, he or she gets injured and needs surgery. There is one specific part of the body that when injured, requires more [...]
Specific exercises will help prevent osteoarthritis of the knees. But which exercises, specifically, just might prevent this common painful condition? A study has some surprising results, and enthusiasts of prolonged running won’t like these results. [...]
How do you treat pain in one knee when squatting but not when running or jumping? Let’s assume there’s been no traumatic injury to the knee that hurts when you lower down into a deep [...]
Which is better for knee arthroscopy: local anesthesia or general? We all know that general anesthesia comes with far more risks than local, but there are circumstances that call for general anesthesia over local for [...]
A doctor explains all a woman needs to know about knee pain, which affects women differently than it does men. • Do you have a dull but annoying ache just underneath your kneecap? • Does [...]
If you already have bursitis in your knee, then it stands to reason that excessive walking will make you aware of it. But this doesn’t mean that a lot of walking actually causes bursitis in [...]
“A meniscal tear, either medial or lateral, can result in sharp [knee] pain with walking,” among other possible causes, explains Devin B. Peck, MD, of owner of Austin Interventional Pain in Austin, TX. The meniscus [...]
Can sharp knee pain only when sleeping be caused by cancer? “Pes anserine bursitis is inflammation of the bursa or sac of lubricating fluid located on the inner aspect of the lower knee,” says Devin [...]
Have you found that after sitting for a while, your knee begins hurting badly? But then it gets better after you’ve been up for a while? What’s going on here? “One of the most common [...]
A doctor, not a layperson in a forum, explains possible causes (cancer??) of a painful bony lump on your kneecap (patella). “The most common cause of a lump on the patella is Osgood-Schlatter disease,” says [...]
A physician cites three possible causes of knee pain following hip replacement surgery. “Knee pain after hip surgery is a poorly-understood phenomenon,” says Devin B. Peck, MD, owner of Austin Interventional Pain in Austin, TX. [...]
“There is a great deal of variability in terms of length of time taken to recover from knee arthroscopy,” explains Devin B. Peck, MD, owner of Austin Interventional Pain. Dr. Peck continues, “This variability depends [...]
You may be aware that bursitis of the knee can cause swelling, but is this necessarily so in every single case? “Knee bursitis may or may not result in visible or even palpable swelling,” says [...]
“Crunching sound in the knee is referred to by physicians as crepitus,” says Devin B. Peck, MD, owner of Austin Interventional Pain in Austin, TX. What causes a crunching sound in the knees? Dr. Peck [...]
Is that knee pain you get only when kneeling possibly caused by bursitis in this joint? “Infrapatellar bursitis can lead to pain while kneeling,” says Devin B. Peck, MD, owner of Austin Interventional Pain in [...]
If you have knee pain, try pedaling backwards on the elliptical machine and see if this doesn’t alleviate your joint discomfort. Most people don’t pedal backwards on the elliptical trainer, but this may actually alleviate [...]
Is your knee pain worse after revision surgery even though at first it wasn’t so bad? A knee revision surgery is when a failed or loosened implant is replaced in part or whole by new [...]
Is it normal to still suffer knee pain months after a total knee replacement surgery? Immediate post-surgical pain is expected, but we're talking months here. Knee replacement patients are given powerful narcotics to numb the [...]
If running causes a sharp pain in one or both of your knees, don't ignore this or try to "run it out." It is not normal and can have a variety of causes. The human [...]
Chondromalacia patella and bursitis are common conditions that involve the kneecap, causing distinct pain. But does one have any unique characteristic that the other one doesn't? “Bursitis usually involves inflammation of the prepatellar bursa,” says [...]
Can deep knee squats hurt the knees? Assume the squats are executed with feet flat on the floor, and that “deep” means the thighs have surpassed the position of being parallel to the floor. That’s [...]
An orthopedic surgeon names causes of a sharp, stabbing pain in the knee when walking. “Knee pain experienced during moderate movement such as walking may be caused by any number of factors, including tendonitis, a [...]
What can cause a grinding noise in the knee but no pain, and is this something to be concerned about? “Painless noise in the knee, as well as other joints, can be safely ignored,” says [...]
An orthopedic surgeon explains what questions one should ask about their upcoming knee arthroscopy. Don't just go into a knee arthroscopy blindly. You should be armed with knowledge ahead of time. Nature of the Knee [...]
Obesity is one of the leading risk factors for osteoarthritis knee pain; it stands to reason that weight loss will improve the condition. If you have knee pain, particularly osteoarthritis, and are overweight, then weight [...]
Learn exactly what you should do, tests to have, etc., if you have knee pain and swelling long after TKR. If you have knee pain despite having “recovered” from total knee replacement surgery, and especially [...]
So you had a good run, but the second you stop, here comes that gnawing pain beneath your kneecap. Or maybe it came on during your run. What IS this and what can be done [...]
