Knee Pain

  Knee Pain

Osteopath practitioners see patients with knee pain frequently. Considering visiting an osteopath is one of the best options for acute and chronic knee pain. There are various causes, signs and symptoms concerning knee pain, which will be differentiate in your initial consultation session.

After the age of 50 patients might suffer from knee pain due to osteoarthritis and wear and tear of the joint, and because knee is a joints that bears most of our weight, the knee joint is more vulnerable to narrowing its cartilage. Adolescence also might encounter knee pain due to some condition and disorder with their growth plate which sometimes might be correct with osteopathic treatment and sometimes might need surgery if its too advanced and there is a bony growth in the patients’ knee joint. The other group of people who might develop knee pain is athletic people like runners or breaststroke swimmers because they give further strain to their knee joints.

Certain kinds of disorders, diseases or injuries might lead to knee pain. For example, dislocation of kneecap will give you difficulty moving your joint, degenerative joint problems will give you joint stiffness or pain, bakers’ cyst might predict knee pain in the back of your knee, or injury to patellar tendon might cause dislocation of the kneecap. For these conditions, osteopathic treatments will predict to improve to alleviate the pain and increase range of motion.

Knowing the exact cause of your pain the crucial part of the treatment and it depends on your sings and symptoms in the initial consultation session, so depending on the cause of the pain your treatments vary in the follow up session based on that. Specialized palpation skills make osteopaths be able to figure out the cause of your pain along with the physical examination.

If you already know that you have arthritis in your knee join, you probably are in anti-inflammatory drugs. Otherwise, you need to make an appointment with your physician to get the prescription.

Your osteopath will give you precise advise on your posture, gait, or if you are overweight will give you some nutritional advises to correct your knee pain as well, because some of the knee injuries are due to being overweight or having not correct posture and gait.