Get to know the reasons causing severe knee pain: Part I

Knee pain is the most common problem with the people of Melbourne. Thousands of people, irrespective of age, are suffering from it. Severe knee ache can be caused for various reasons. To get a proper a treatment, you need to know which one is causing yours.

Are you suffering from knee pain for a long period of time? Have you tried all the home remedies to get rid of your suffering? Have you already wasted a lot of money in the medical treatment, but still no better results? Well, wait and think a little more. Are you doing any mistake?

The knee is the most complex joint of the body, which connects the thigh bone or femur and the shin bone or tibia. There are many causes of severe knee pain in Melbourne like injury, variety of arthritis, mechanical problem or any other medical condition. Know the proper reason of your pain and treat it well.

Wounds and injuries

A heavy fall or accident can affect ligaments, tendons, cartilage or fluid-filled bursa and cause pain. Let’s see some of the common knee wounds.

Damage of meniscus.

The meniscus is the higher, less elastic, shock absorber cartilage which provides a cushion between your shinbone and thighbone. A sudden twist of the knee with heavy weight in it can tear it up.

Bursitis

The fluid-filled sacs and synovial pockets provides cover for the outside joint of your knees. Activities like kneeling on the floor can cause damage to the bursae, which is called bursitis.

ACL Injury

This happens when the anterior cruciate ligament or ACL, which joints the shinbone and the thighbone together is reaped. It happens mostly during a sport which needs a sudden change of position.

Tendonitis

Tendons are thick, fibrous tissues that connect the leg muscles to the knee bones. The swelling of these tendons, which is termed as tendonitis, can be caused during some sports like cycling, running, skiing and swimming. It is also called jumper’s knee.

Iliotibial band syndrome

The ligament on the outside of the pelvic bone extended to the outside of the tibia is called iliotibial band. The overuse of this band makes it tight and it rubs against the femur, which makes it to swell. Distant runners mostly suffer from this this.

Knee joint bleeding

If any injury affects the blood vessel surrounding the knee ligaments and makes it warm, stiff, bruised and swollen, then it is called Haemarthrosis or knee joint bleeding. It requires special medical treatment.

Kneecap dislocation

When the triangular bone or patella which covers the knee front displaces of its position. It causes severe pain and inflammation of the knee.

Breaking of the bones

Fragments from the bone or the cartilage can break off by a knee injury and can get stuck in the joint resulting it to freeze up.

Osgood-Schlatter Disease

This kind of knee pain in Melbourne occurs for the obesity, harms the tendons attached to the upper bone of the knee. Mostly the teenagers who play sports are the victims.

Martin Luther has interviewed many people suffering from knee pain around Australia. During his interviews he has established the point that most of the people suffering from knee pain in Melbourne prefer the simple home remedies to coping up with this condition.