Knee
Pain Relief – Home Care Non Surgical Knee Pain Treatment
Every people will start looking for knee pain relief after the pain of the knee affect them. When it
comes to knee pain relief, there are
many different types of treatment of
knee pain depend on individuals based on the causes of pain behind knee. Some may use one knee pain treatment and recover within short period, while some may
be take long term period and involve combinations of knee pain treatment like medication and physical therapy. We should
get consultation from professional doctor before we start our treatment to
avoid further damages in improper treatment
of knee pain.
Medication
Many back
knee pain medications that we can buy from pharmacy are used to decrease
the pain and reduce or stop the inflammation. Common medications on shelf are
anti-inflammatory medicine, corticosteroids and pain reliever. Medications may be useful if the pain of the knee is minor and not serious. Supplements and
nutrition also plays an important role in curing and prevention of back knee pain.
Exercises
Exercises are always recommended by doctor
and knee pain expert to improve and
relief the pain of the knee. Such
exercises are used to strengthen muscles, and improve endurance and flexibility
of joints, cartilages and tendons. Such exercise must me in mild mode to avoid
further behind knee injury. Long
term of such exercises will decrease back
knee pain and prevent such condition from recurring.
Injections
There are two types of injections to knee pain relief, which is Cortisone
and Hyaluronan. Cortisone injected is synthetically produced that close to
cortisone naturally produced by our body adrenal gland. Cortisone cures the back knee pain by stopping the
inflammation. Hyaluronan is different than cortisone. Hyaluronan is knee joints fluid injected into the
knee joints to lubricate and allows cartilages surfaces of joints to glide in
smooth condition. Some people call it knee
joints lubrication. This is most popular way to treat the back pain knee.
Weight Management
Our knee supports our overall body weight.
Obesity leads to extra weight to our knee causing pain of the knee. Every pound that we are overweight puts extra 5
pounds of pressure to our knee joints
when we climb the staircase. By weight management, it will help to reduce and
ease the burden of the knee joints.
Our body weight should be in good proportion with our height to maintain good
health and body bones, cartilages, tendons, muscles and knee joints healthy to prevent pain
of the knee.
Physical and Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy teaches you how to
reduce strain and pain of the knee
during daily activities. Occupational therapist will provide advice on how to
modify your home to prevent behind knee
injury cause by improper home design and furniture. Physical therapist will
design exercise program to improve the strength of muscles, endurance and
flexibility of knee joints to reduce
the pain of the knee.
Hot and Cold Therapy
Hot and cold therapy is used for two main
purposes in back knee pain:
reduction of inflammation and knee pain
relief. In this method, ice will be applied first to the behind knee injury for 15 minutes. The
ice pack will reduce the temperature of the knee; contract the blood vessel and
reducing blood flow to knee. When ice pack removed from the knee, the blood
vessel will heated back, dilate and blood rush in to the knee, and then flushes
out inflammatory chemical. Ice also helps to numb your nerve impulse which
reduces the back knee pain.
Assistive equipment
We can have knee pain relief by the help of equipments like crutches and knee brace.
Crutches help us to share our body weight to ease the burden of our knee joints. Knee brace is strap firmly
to your knee cap, fit our knee joints in align and share the weight equally to
whole both leg. Knee brace reduce the pain
of the knee especially when we climb up and down from staircase.
Avoidance
When we are having back knee pain, we must avoid from carrying heavy stuff. Heavy
stuff will add extra stress to our knee
joints causing more inflammatory and knee
pain. We also need to avoid all kinds of excessive activities like running
and excessive exercises. We will also need to avoid from long time of standing
and walking. Try to take some rest after 20 minutes of stand or walk. It will
help to reduce the pain of the knee.
