Self-treatment of knee pain

Many people suffer from knee pain, not just the elderly. Many young people do not pay attention to keeping warm in winter, so their knees will get cold and sometimes they will have knee pain. Some older people also suffer from knee pain due to long-term labor and failure to pay attention to protecting their knees. Some knee pain does not involve joint lesions, so there is no need to go to the hospital for treatment. You can relieve or even cure the pain by taking good care of yourself at home. So how do you self-treat knee pain?

First, determine what is causing the pain.

If it is a clear external injury, you should go to the hospital for examination.

If the initial symptoms are redness, swelling, and pain, accompanied by fever, you should also go to the hospital for examination.

If none of the above conditions occur, consider whether you have engaged in unusually excessive activity before the pain. For example, young people’s jumping activities, playing basketball, football, physical education classes in school, etc., middle-aged and elderly people’s long walking, daily exercise, dancing, etc. Even going up and down the stairs repeatedly in a short period of time (such as half an hour).

Let's talk about the pain in the knee joint. You can check the following:

Many cases of knee pain are felt inadvertently and are not very painful. There are also cases of recurrent knee pain, with pain alternating between the two legs. The patient cannot squat (with swelling and pain), cannot stand up after squatting (due to pain and weakness), and suffers pain when standing up after sitting for a while and cannot take a step. Some people experience pain when going up stairs, some experience pain when going down stairs. In severe cases, their legs may suddenly become weak while walking, and they may even fall. You may wake up from sleep due to pain. Find the location of pain. Most of the pain is on the inside of the knee joint, but a few people also have pain on the outside of the knee joint. You may also have pain in the popliteal fossa. There may or may not be swelling in the knee joint. I went to the hospital for an X-ray and the reports showed either that there was no problem, or that there was a bone spur, or bone hyperplasia, or degenerative changes.

Having said so much above, how to treat it? Can it be cured?

It should be said that it is not only treatable. And it is still curable.

Let’s first talk about the treatment standards and what counts as a cure. The standard is to walk without pain after one week of not taking medication. Reaching this standard is cure.

After saying so much (sounds like a quack medicine seller, haha), how should it be treated?

The treatment is so simple that you won’t believe it: just don’t walk during the period of pain. Not walking is the core of the prescription for treating knee pain. If the conditions are not met, we need to create them, such as moving around as little as possible. Where there is pain there must be an injury. All knee pain is an injury. No matter what the cause of the injury is, the treatment is to heal the injury. The recovery time of any tissue injury is roughly fixed. As long as you do not move during the painful period and endure enough time, the knee joint injury will heal on its own. There is no way to shorten this time, just like a baby cannot grow into an adult immediately.

If this method is ineffective, surgical treatment should be considered. Such as joint replacement or other surgery.

If you can’t do it, it’s very simple - just continue to feel the pain.

Is there no other way? The answer is no. If you are willing to be deceived, there are many ways to treat knee joints. Let me briefly explain:

Oral medication: It can be said that all medications are analgesics (regardless of Chinese or Western medicine, doctors prescribe this type of medication), but the methods of relieving pain are different. But all these medicines can be used. The way to choose them is, no matter how high or low the price is, as long as the knee joint pain is relieved after taking the medicine and there is no other discomfort, it is a good medicine. The key to the problem is not what name of medicine to take, but what to do after taking the medicine. The pain-free feeling after taking the medicine is fake. The pain will come back when you stop taking the medicine. The art of taking medicine is to know how to take it. The key to understanding taking medication is that it helps you rest better rather than move around. Not every doctor knows this.

Applying plaster: Not only is it useless, it can also cause contact dermatitis due to the irritation of the plaster, making the swelling worse.

Apply medicine on the outside of the knee joint: the effect is similar to that of plaster. Haha, if you don’t believe me, you can try it. It’s not my leg anyway.

Medicinal wine: The effect is the same as that of plaster, the difference is that the swelling of plaster is the size of the plaster, while the swelling of medicinal wine is over a larger area. Medicinal wine is everywhere, and there is no good skin to be seen.

Acupuncture: It is a trick used by the ancient Chinese to deceive people. No one has ever seen a cure.

Injection: The effect of injection is to relieve pain. Is it necessary to take injections just like taking oral medications?

Joint injection: Haha, in the past, hormones and anesthetics were used, but now sodium hyaluronate, etc. The effects and purpose are the same as oral pain relievers. If you can get injections in your knee joints for the rest of your life, I have nothing to say.

Heat therapy: including infrared, electromagnetic therapy, shortwave, microwave, wax therapy, fried coarse salt, sand therapy, hot water bath (some also add some herbs), etc., etc., are all useless. They feel very comfortable while doing it, but the pain continues after the treatment.

Prevention of knee pain: Once knee pain disappears, it does not mean that there will be no pain forever. In order to avoid recurrence of pain, you should be careful about your activities after recovery and avoid excessive activities. The criterion for measurement is the occurrence of soreness when the knee joint moves. If you feel any pain, stop walking and sit down. If you insist on continuing to walk, the next pain will begin. What is tested is not only the will but also the spirit. Haha, if you don’t believe it, you can try it. It won’t kill you anyway. It just hurts again.

Knee pain is not uncurable, it just depends on what you do about it.