Pain above the kneecap

The health of the kneecap is related to whether you can exercise and exercise normally. However, if you experience pain above the kneecap, you must find out the cause and improve it in time. Some people may increase their exercise in order to lose weight, which may cause knee pain. This is very dangerous and they need to change their exercise habits. For some people, it may be caused by muscle strain, which is best treated with medication.

1. What is the cause of pain above the kneecap?

It may be a symptom of osteoproliferative arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or a symptom of meniscus injury. If the pain is severe, it is best to go to the hospital for a local X-ray, rheumatoid factor, uric acid, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and anti-O test. Symptomatic treatment should be given according to the test results. In addition, spicy and irritating foods should be avoided, strenuous exercise should be avoided, and attention should be paid to keeping warm.

Treatment of osteoarthritis

1. Minimally invasive treatment

With the continuous development of medical technology, there are more and more minimally invasive techniques for treating bone spurs. Currently, there are two minimally invasive treatment methods for treating bone spurs:

1) Low-temperature plasma ablation: The instrument effectively penetrates drug ions into local tissues, improves local redness and swelling, eliminates inflammatory adhesions, and has a significant therapeutic effect on movement disorders caused by frozen shoulder, tenosynovitis, and tennis elbow. This technology has the advantages of no side effects, no invasion, and low price.

2) Laser needle knife release: Use non-invasive release needles to release adhesions caused by local tissues, improve local pain, enhance muscle activity tension, and eliminate local inflammation. It has obvious therapeutic effect on soft tissue adhesion caused by bone spurs.

2. Drug treatment

For patients with mild bone spur symptoms, medication can be used for treatment. If the symptoms do not improve after more than two months of medication, minimally invasive treatment is required.

3. Surgical treatment

Surgical treatment is mainly aimed at treating spinal bone spurs. The surgery includes laminectomy, discectomy, vertebrae resection, and spinal fixation surgery. If the joint has been completely destroyed, artificial joint replacement surgery must be performed to restore the function of the joint.