Pain in knee depends on ligaments and quadriceps muscle strength and stability.

COMMON CAUSES

1.AN INJURY:

We are well known that an injured knee is more likely to be painful, injury particularly during sports.

2.OVERUSE:

Long term effects of using knees can create a cumulative effects and leads to knee pain, over use of the knee leads to peri and intra articular problems .Some are self limiting other require physiotherapy.

3. A CHRONIC, UNDERLYING CONDITION:

Arthritis is examples of a chronic underlying condition that can lead to increased level of knee pain ARTHRITIS (The phenomenon of bone rubbing on bone) become a problem.

• Knee is also a common site of inflammatory arthritis and osteoarthritis .Symptomatic arthritis of the
• Knee correlates poorly with the severity of the radiological changes.

TYPES OF KNEE PAIN

MEDIAL KNEE PAIN:

• Medial ligament more commonly affected, worsen by standing and stressing the affected ligamen
• Anserine bursitis causes pain and tenderness in upper part of tibia at the site of bursa, mostly occurs
• In obese women often with valgus deformity.

ANTERIOR KNEE PAIN (FRONT):

• Pre and infra patellar bursitis (House maids knee) local pain, tenderness and swelling leads to septic bursitis.
• CHONDROMALASIA PATELLAE
• In most cases the pain settles eventually ,when there is patellar misalignment it may need surgery
• OS GOOD –SCHLATTER’S DISEASE causes pain and swelling over the tibial tubercle, hyper mobility of joint cause’s pain.

POSTERIOR KNEE PAIN (BACK):

• Biceps femoris tendonitis and Bakers cyst

LATERAL OF KNEE (OUTSIDE):

• Ilitibial band syndrome (ITBS)
• LCL injury
• Lateral meniscus tear

WHEN TO SEE A DOCTOR IN KNEE PAIN:

• Joint pain lasts for more than 48 hours
• Swelling lasts for more than 48 hours
• Instability/lack of support