Pain when raising knee

The knee is an important part of the human leg structure, but when people reach middle age or old age, they will experience various symptoms. They will feel extreme pain when lifting their knees. This is mainly related to joint damage. After high-intensity work, the damage caused to the joints cannot be underestimated. It can lead to arthritis and the tendons around the knees will also be damaged. Pay attention to maintenance in your life.

Knee pain is often called knee arthritis. Not only ordinary people, but doctors are often also prone to calling it that. But in fact, in addition to arthritis, many conditions can cause knee pain, such as climbing, going up and down stairs, fatigue, wearing shoes that do not fit or have heels that are too high, shoes that are too thin, squatting for a long time, sitting for a long time, or improper knee position, etc. At these times, if people are a little older, they often think that this is arthritis. In fact, for most people, before "arthritis" occurs, the first problem that occurs is the muscle fascia around the joints, especially the tendons attached to the joints.

The movement of joints is driven by the movement of muscles or fascia. Excessive muscle fatigue, injury, cold, tendon damage, etc. can cause joint pain. Injury takes many forms, and sometimes it happens unknowingly, such as when you catch a cold or are tired. You may not clearly feel when you were injured, but if a certain posture lasts for a long time, latent injury will occur - for example, the regular release of small amounts of inflammatory factors may not cause symptoms immediately, so you don't feel it, or sometimes you feel it slightly, and the symptoms disappear after activity or heat, but potential tissue damage has begun to occur. Over time, if there are the same or other stimuli, the lesions will accumulate until one day you experience persistent or severe pain. This condition can occur at any age, but is more common in the elderly. Many people who have been injured when they were young and have not received treatment or attention will develop symptoms in their old age. Therefore, joint diseases in the elderly often involve both osteoarthritis and soft tissue lesions, and the treatment methods for arthritis may not always be effective.

Many times, there is joint hyperplasia, but the real cause of the pain is not the joint itself, but the soft tissue around the joint. When the soft tissue problem is solved during treatment, the pain will disappear. About functional exercises of joints. Modern people pay more and more attention to physical exercise, which is a good thing. But for joints, especially knee joints, more activity is not necessarily good. Especially when pain occurs, many people will feel conflicted. The joint function needs to be exercised, but the pain affects the movement. When it is not suitable to move, you must rest and recuperate. Because the knee joint is a weight-bearing joint, activities such as walking, climbing, running, etc. are used for the knee joint. At this time, the usual exercise for the knee joint is like letting a sick person continue to work, which is to make it work rather than to maintain it. At this time, the correct exercise method should be "static" exercise - that is, activities in a non-weight-bearing position on the joints, such as sitting on a chair, stretching your legs forward with your heels (called stretching the bladder meridian in traditional Chinese medicine) or lying on the bed, stretching and contracting the corresponding muscles, flexing and extending the joints, or actively and intentionally contracting the thigh muscles while straightening your legs. Such exercise is much more beneficial than walking, running or mountain climbing. Long-term persistence is very beneficial for improving the health of the soft tissue around the joints and reducing joint pain. Friends who like mountain climbing or running may be disappointed. In fact, you don't have to worry. You can continue to do your favorite sports. Static exercise cannot completely replace full-body activities.