I mean for the pain in my right knee since I saw the doctor for another reason and he only came across this because he ask if I had pain anywhere else and then discharged me once he finished with me. Are there any natural things or exercises I can do, anything? Please help.

I need a knee brace for a pulled muscle and arthritis and I don’t know which knee brace to pick from my options are an Adjustable Hinge Knee Brace, Self-Adjusting Knee Stabilizer, or an Adjustable Knee Support. Thanks to all.
Note: at work I do alot of bending and picking up heavy boxes.

Surgeon suspected torn cartilage so I had an arthroscope in Feb 08. Pre-op X-rays showed beginning of arthritis. After surgery doc advised that there was no tear but there were finger-like growths throughout the joint that he trimmed away. He also said back of patella very pitted so he scrapped this back. After 2 weeks, one of the wounds had still not healed and I ended up with excessive leakage, swelling and a raging fever. Had another arthroscope to clear infection and 4 days in hospital on drip. My knee has never been the same. I have had many physio treatments, different exercise/strengthening programs and even got orthopedics to try and alleviate the knee and leg pain. It is so bad that i have trouble walking, can no longer exercise and can’t sit on the floor with my children. The physio and surgeon keep telling me it will take time. Should I seek a second opinion or do I have to live with this pain?

Surgeon suspected torn cartilage so I had an arthroscope in Feb 08. Pre-op X-rays showed beginning of arthritis. After surgery doc advised that there was no tear but there were finger-like growths throughout the joint that he trimmed away. He also said back of patella very pitted so he scrapped this back. After 2 weeks, one of the wounds had still not healed and I ended up with excessive leakage, swelling and a raging fever. Had another arthroscope to clear infection and 4 days in hospital on drip. My knee has never been the same. I have had many physio treatments, different exercise/strengthening programs and even got orthopedics to try and alleviate the knee and leg pain. It is so bad that i have trouble walking, can no longer exercise and can’t sit on the floor with my children. The physio and surgeon keep telling me it will take time. Should I seek a second opinion or do I have to live with this pain?

late year my 11 yo dog tore the acl’s in her knee..it was the end of august she had the surgery. weather turned off cold and bad after her 6 wk restrictions were up so she was unable to rip n run due to muddy outside though we did take her for walk..wouldnt let her lie on ground because of arthritis…over the winter she figured out she could drag her rear with her front legs and still keep moving. when we tell her to use her leg she will walk on it fine but she has gotten so lazy over the winter it drives me crazy at times seeing her drag herself..for 11 yrs old she is still very alert and active but just wont use her leg like she should. she is in no pain now and vet said she is just being lazy which is what i knew all along. i even tried one day wrapping a towel around her to support her to help her use the leg more and after she figured what i was doing she quit using both legs so i stopped that.

just need to know how to make lazy ole granny use that leg more

I’m a 20 year old male that has been having annoying knee pain for a few years. I realise that nobody who answers this is going to be able to say for sure what the cause is, but at least give me ideas on what to tell the doctor when I do see him.

This has been going on for 5-6 years now, my family doctor basically writes it off as nothing, tells me I have jeuvenile oesteo-arthritis. But he lists the symptoms and they don’t fit me, hardly at all.

So the pain:

Never there in the morning.
Is at the back of the knee, on the inside, seems to come from the very prominant tendon you can see/feel in the back of most peoples legs.
Standing or walking for long periods agravates it.
Stairs up or down, make almost no difference.
Biking( I have been HEAVILY into mountain biking for years, my whole life basically) there is never any pain.
The back of my leg swells when the pain is there.
A simple tensor wrap or stretchy knee brace almost immediately relieves the pain, 100%.

My calf and back of the thigh both always have that feeling of the day after you work out. Where you need you stretch. And stretching the front of my leg (quads) relieves the pain temporarily.

The pain is a dull feeling, not around the kneecap at all, and only on the inside of the back on my knee. I can still walk just fine, putting my knee in any position but dead straight also relieves the pain. Running doesn’t aggravate it anymore than walking does.

I plan on going to the doctor with a list similar to the one I wrote out here, but basically I’m wondering if anybody can point me in the right direction with what this may be..

I’m 17, I am not very active but I would consider myself active as I do walk a total of a mile everyday to and from school. I do weightlifting every other day and other exercises. Last week, my friends and I were trying to create new dance moves and the ones I performed put a lot of stress on my knees. On Monday when I started added squats to my every other day activities, I noticed that I heard some clicking noises coming from my right knee. I do not have any swelling, pain, I can put weight on one leg just fine, the clicking noises only occur when I try to squat on my knee.

When I put my hand on my knee and raise my knee I can feel that something is being slightly pulled? or maybe thats more clicking.

I asked a few people for their opinion on my situation,

-One Biology teacher said I have a early symptom of Arthritis. However he was busy and all I asked him was “Why do I have popping sounds in my knee?” my friend said I over exaggerated the question a lot to him and I feel so to.
-One AP teacher said I have damaged my cartilage but it’s not a sign of arthritis and it’s easily fixed with exercises with the knee.
-One friend said the fact that I don’t drink milk and exercise my knee in general because I don’t makes it so my knee is weak and dancing last week put alot of strain, which I have to agree the dancing was very strainful as it involved a series of stomping on the floor for 3minutes.
-Another friend said I’m overworrying too much and it’s just a minor easily fixable injury caused by too much strain and can be fixed by consuming more calcium and doing exercise.

I’m not too sure what to believe right now as many people are giving me different stories. I might just go get a x-ray check? Or I might be wasting my time and really am overworrying too much on this.

Any suggestions or thoughts?
It doesn’t interfere me really, it’s just like I guess when I first heard it, a bit scary I thought my bones were going to break. Later it becomes nothing really, I only hear some clicking sounds whenever I do squats.

Is it safe to exercise like this?

Hi everyone, I am not sure what is causing my knee pain but my symptoms are similar to arthritis. I have been very physically active my whole life, but I am only 20 years old…isn’t that too young to develop osteo arthritis? I am wondering if it is a possible explaination for the pain I have been having in my left knee (my right knee gives me no issues at all) I am very depressed, as I cannot be active the way I used to be. I have been to an orthropedic doctor and he believes I have bursitis. I did not have an MRI but he said if the pain does not subside in a month or two of physical therapy that he is going to order me an MRI. My question is, would ostero arthritis show up on an MRI?

I have pains in my upper knee. The pain has been chronic. It will go away for months, but once I become very active, it will come back. In general, the knee begins to swell up the day after I put a lot of repetitive stress on it. Also, it may lock and catch when I move it. If I allow for it to stay bent for more than a minute, and then try to straighten it, the pain will be pretty severe, sometimes accompanied by a loud pop. The pain is local to the area behind the knee cap, mostly in the upper region of the knee. Again, this is usually the day after, whereas while I am using it, I don’t feel much pain. I believe I developed the injury while running cross country in high school. After staying off of it for 6 months, it managed to heal up, but it has come back a month at a time here and there over the past two years due to basketball and parkour. I’m looking for any help on diagnosing my problem and finding a treatment. A specific name of the problem from a knowledgeable source would be most appreciated!

I don’t think it’s patellar tendonitis, which would usually be between the patella and shin. Also, I do not have any issues with other joints in my body, so I do not believe it to be arthritis.