How to treat knee pain from playing basketball

In life, many people like to play basketball very much, especially young male friends. Playing basketball is a very beneficial sport for the body and mind. While playing basketball, you can exercise your body, improve your body's immunity, and strengthen your body. It is very beneficial to the body. When playing basketball, you often jump and bounce, and you will use the knees of your legs to bend the legs to complete the jumping action, which will cause knee pain when playing basketball. So how to treat knee pain from playing basketball? Let’s take a look at it together below.

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 grinding 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.

Knee pain is most likely caused by arthritis. In life, knee pain may sometimes be caused by trauma, prolonged cold, and large temperature differences. Especially in autumn, due to the alternation of cold and warm, the large temperature difference between morning and evening, and the sudden turn of cold weather, the muscles and blood vessels will contract, causing pain in the knee joint. You must keep warm at ordinary times. If the pain is severe, you can use hot compresses to relieve it and try to reduce joint movement.

First, go to the hospital and take an X-ray to see if there are any bone injuries. If there are bone injuries, you should see an orthopedic doctor to help treat it. If there are no injuries to your muscles or bones and you just feel a little pain after the fall, you can relieve the pain by massaging your knee yourself, or you can wet a towel with cold water and apply it to the painful area of ​​your knee. In addition, it is best not to walk too long during this period, otherwise it will affect the speed of recovery. In addition, you can ask your family to help you move your knee muscles properly to speed up recovery.

The above article describes in detail how to treat knee pain caused by playing basketball. When playing basketball, due to the use of jumping movements, it is easier to cause knee pain, especially for people who do not participate in basketball for a long time. The stiffer the bones of the body, the more likely they will experience knee pain. When knee pain occurs, you should go to a regular hospital for a detailed examination, and also protect the injured part.