If you feel pain, then this clearly indicates a problem. If your knees are swollen and sore, help should be taken immediately. The only question is what causes the pain.
Below we consider the most common causes of knee pain.
Reasons why your knees are swollen and sore
- Gonarthrosis, or, in simple terms, arthrosis of the knee joint. What it is? This is a process of destruction of the knee joint. With a long flow, it leads to a limitation of mobility and deformation.
- Chases gonarthritis. This is an inflammatory disease of the knee joint, which can be either an independent pathology or a complication after an illness.
- Meniscus damage. As the name implies, this knee pain appears due to trauma. In this case, the injury, as a result of which the meniscus was damaged, can be very slight. If the meniscus damage is not treated, then it can become chronic, and this, in turn, is fraught with the development of deforming arthrosis. People with this injury complain that their knees are swollen and sore. Meanwhile, edema is a normal condition with this kind of injury.
- Violation of blood circulation in the joints, or the so-called vascular pain. This is not a pathology of the joints, but this problem can accompany a person throughout his life.
- Periarthritis or inflammation of the tendons of the knee joint. This is just the case when the pain is manifested not so much in the knee as under the knee, that is, on the back side. The pain intensifies when walking and physical exertion. it is characteristic that women after 40 years of age who have problems with overweight suffer from periarthritis.
The nature of the pain will indicate its cause!
Depending on the nature of the pain, you can understand what caused them. Dull, aching pains that intensify during movement are a sure sign of arthrosis. If, in addition to this, the knees are swollen and sore, then most likely it is arthritis. With arthritis, an increase in the temperature of the joint is also observed, that is, the knee becomes hot to the touch. Frequent aching pain may indicate leg vein thrombosis. Since this is a dangerous pathology, you should consult a doctor immediately. If the pain occurred unexpectedly after a jump or fall - there is a meniscus injury. Severe symmetrical pain in the knee joints occurs with rheumatoid arthritis. If the knee is swollen and hot, in 99 cases out of 100, a person has arthritis, so urgent measures must be taken. Of course, there are situations when you immediately need to see a doctor. For example, if a knee is swollen after a bruise, then everything is possible here, up to a cracked patella and a meniscus rupture.
If the pains are variable, then you can alleviate the condition with the help of thermal compresses and ointments, as well as with the old proven method - wrap your knee with a warm wool scarf.
A simple ointment recipe if your knees are swollen and sore
Mix a spoonful of salt with a spoonful of soda, adding 7-10 drops of iodine to the resulting slurry. Then put the ointment on the knee and wrap it for 15 minutes. Rinse off the salt, soda and iodine, and then coat the knee with vitamin cream. Positive dynamics will begin to be seen after 3-4 procedures.