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Disease Symptom Tips :: Arthritis Knee Pain
Arthritis Knee Pain: How to Treat Knee Pain Caused by Arthritis
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For full coverage of the most common types of arthritis knee pain, including common symptoms and popular treatments, keep reading.
Kneecap Aching
Kneecap aching is also known as patello-femoral syndrome. Kneecap pain is typically described as deep and aching and is felt over the front aspect of the kneecap. It's made worse by going up or down stairs or sitting in one position for long periods of time.
Women seem to have this symptom more often than men, either in their teens or in later middle age. Very often, the patient can feel a fine grating by cupping the kneecap with the palm of the hand while bending and straightening the knee.
To treat this form of arthritis knee pain, you can try hamstring muscle stretching, strengthening of the quadriceps muscles and sometimes tapping the knee. Time and avoiding anything that causes the pain will also help.
Knee Lumps and Swellings
There are a number of bursae around the knee, but the one that most commonly blows up is the pre-patellar bursa. This condition is called housemaid's knee, because of the traditional cause which is kneeling. However, it can also be caused by infection.
Occasionally, other knee region bursae will swell too. Swelling just below the kneecap is called jumper's knee. The other cause of swelling just below the kneecap is inflammation of the site where the tendon from the kneecap attaches to the shin.
This site of attachment is called the tibial tubercle, and it can be felt as a bony bump. Inflammation here, like jumper's knee, is most often a problem in young, male athletes. It's referred to as Osgoode-Schlatter's disease and it gets better with time.
Calf Pain and Baker's Cyst
Calf pain, which can seem like phlebitis in the calf, is actually caused by knee arthritis. Basically, in the rear of the knee is a tiny, fluid-filled sac. This sac is typically called a Baker's cyst or a popliteal bursa.
Normally, the cyst is typically small and easily spotted, but if or when knee starts to inflame and swell, the fluid can then leak backwards and fill up the sac or cyst.
If this swelling happens over a period of several days to several weeks, the most common symptom is normally a feeling of something behind the knee, like a golf ball has been placed there. But, if the cyst fills up quickly, the sac wall can be stretched and it can get very large like a balloon.
With nowhere else to go, the cyst works its way down into the calf. Once there, it can cause quite a bit of pain, especially if the balloon breaks.
Treatment for this arthritis knee pain is typically directed towards the cause by injecting the knee with cortisone, which takes down the knee inflammation and the cyst then deflates.
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