What are the top ten causes of knee pain?

In daily life, knee pain is very familiar to many people. Knee pain will not only affect normal activities, but also easily affect the health of the knee joint and easily cause some complications. There are many reasons for knee pain. Generally, it is due to friction of the knee joint caused by obesity, which leads to knee pain. External damage to the knee joint can also easily cause pain.

Top 10 Causes of Knee Pain

1. Osteoarthritis of the knee is a disease that is more common in middle-aged and elderly people, mostly women. Excessive weight load is the main cause of disease. The knee joint will be swollen and painful, and sometimes there will be a friction sound when moving the joint. The knee may develop a varus deformity with medial pain.

2. Being overweight or having improper diet. For people who are too obese, the knee joints have to bear more weight, and the knees will be "damaged" sooner or later. Something as simple as walking up the stairs puts four times more pressure on your knees than usual! If you are 5kg overweight, every time you climb the stairs, you are carrying 20kg more!

3. If the patient has ligament damage in the knee joint, this will cause knee pain.

Medial collateral ligament injuries account for the vast majority of clinical cases. Taking this injury as an example, the patient will have a clear history of trauma, pain and tenderness on the medial side of the knee, pain that worsens when the calf is passively abducted, swelling on the medial side of the knee, and ecchymosis after a few days. Knee joint movement may be restricted. >>How to better prevent knee arthritis? Click here for consultation

4. Improper warm-up or no warm-up. Many people do leg stretching exercises first when exercising, but they don’t know that leg stretching exercises are the main cause of knee injuries. When exercising, your knees are put under tremendous pressure, so you must warm up properly to avoid injury. Exercising without warming up is equivalent to not giving the joints natural lubrication, so the knee joint will certainly not function smoothly.

Additionally, cold, tense muscles are not conducive to smooth joint function. Starting or ending a movement suddenly can tear the muscles surrounding a joint and cause or worsen an overuse injury.

5. In our lives, many people exercise, but some people experience knee pain after exercise. This is caused by excessive exercise. Therefore, exercise should not be excessive and should be done in moderation. If the pain is too severe, go to the hospital immediately.

6. Fat pad strain: The fat pad fills the gap in the front of the knee joint, which strengthens the joint stability and reduces friction. The cause of fat pad strain may be due to trauma or long-term friction, which causes congestion, hypertrophy and inflammation of the fat pad, adhesion with the patellar ligament, and thus limits the movement of the knee joint.

7. Some elderly people like to climb mountains, but if they do not do warm-up exercises or exercise too much, it may cause joint pain. Especially those who suffer from synovitis or osteoarthritis are more likely to suffer from joint diseases or aggravate them. In mountain climbing, when going down the mountain, the weight of the whole body is completely added to one knee joint, and the pressure on the knee joint is several times that when standing normally. The same thing happens when people go up or down stairs.

8. For example, often wearing ill-fitting shoes or walking long distances in slippers or high heels will cause the knee joint to be in an abnormal stress state for a long time, causing chronic damage to the knee joint and causing pain.

9. Knee joint diseases caused by rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, lupus erythematosus, etc.

10. The incidence of knee pain caused by gout has a clear upward trend.