Knee Arthritis|Knock Knees|Virtual Knee Surgery

This article on osteoarthritis is for information only. There are many causes of joint inflammation and you should consult with your physician for diagnosis and treatment.

Osteoarthritis (OA) or degenerative joint disease or is the most common form of arthritis. Osteoarthritis occurs over time from wear and tear on the cartilage (cushion) of the joints. Osteoarthritis can affect any joint in your body, though it most commonly affects joints in your hands, hips, knees and spine. Osteoarthritis typically affects just one joint, though in some cases, such as with finger arthritis, several joints can be affected.

There is no cure for osteoarthritis but osteoarthritis treatments can relieve pain and help you remain active. Taking steps to actively manage your osteoarthritis may help you gain control over your osteoarthritis pain

According to the Center for Disease control osteoarthritis affects 13.9% of adults aged 25 and older and 33.6% (12.4 million) of those 65 and older. An estimated 26.9 million United States adults in 2005 up from 21 million in 1990 (believed to be conservative estimate).

Osteoarthritis symptoms most commonly affect the hands, hips, knees and spine. Unless you've been injured or placed unusual stress on a joint, it's uncommon for osteoarthritis symptoms to affect your jaw, shoulder, elbows, wrists or ankles.

It isn't clear what causes osteoarthritis in most cases. Researchers suspect that it's a combination of factors, including being overweight, the aging process, joint injury or stress, heredity, and muscle weakness

Osteoarthritis symptoms often develop slowly and worsen over time. Signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis include:

- Pain in a joint during or after use, or after a period of inactivity

- Tenderness in the joint when you apply light pressure

- Stiffness in a joint, that may be most noticeable when you wake up in the morning or after a period of inactivity

- Loss of flexibility may make it difficult to use the joint

- Grating sensation when you use the joint

- Bone spurs, which appear as hard lumps, may form around the affected joint

- Swelling in some cases

Regan and colleagues in the 2008 Journal of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage showed us that joint fluid from patients with osteoarthritis was characterized by significantly decreased superoxide dismutase levels and significant decreases in glutathione compared to the reference group of knee joints with pain or sub acute injury but macroscopically intact cartilage.

Afonso and colleagues in the 2007 Journal of Joint Bone Spine discussed the role of superoxide dismutase in preventing the formation of aggressive free radicals that play a role in joint inflammation.

Kalpakcioglu and colleagues in the 2008 Journal of Clinical Rheumatology reviewed the interaction of antioxidants against free radicals in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. There was evidence that antioxidants: glutathione reductase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase, and glucose-6-phopshate destroy these free radicals.

More studies are available online; search "glutathione and osteoarthritis" in PubMed.

Traditional treatment involves use of non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS)

and Tylenol to relieve pain and inflammation. This is certainly reasonable in the acute phase. Rest, bracing and crutches/walker may be necessary to rest the joint to allow the inflamed tissues to heal. As the inflammation calms down begin joint motion and strength exercises as soon as possible to prevent debilitation.

A weight loss program is critical to the long term health of your joints and your body if you are overweight. As little as ten pounds can make a difference. Weight loss strategies can be found in my blog; askdrvic.com. There are many low impact activities that can help you burn calories as well. Check with your doctor before you start an exercise program.

There are many glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate supplements on the market. The scientific literature has mixed reviews on their effectiveness. I tell my patients to try it for a month or two and see if it makes a difference.

The scientific research showed me the importance of antioxidants glutathione, superoxide dismutase and catalase in osteoarthritis. I researched products and chose Max GXL, a glutathione accelerator and Max N-fuze which contains the balance of the antioxidants. It made sense to use products which worked at the cellular level to fight the free radicals that threaten our bodies.

The pharmaceutical companies will not take care of you. The government will not be able to take care of you. Why not take steps NOW to take care of yourself so that you can live a long, healthy AND productive life?

I wish you health and prosperity.

The decision to have a full knee replacement operation is usually a long time coming. As you research the surgery itself, preparations you should make and details about recovery, you may find yourself overwhelmed with advice and tips from friends, family and strangers on the internet. To simplify things a bit, here is a generalized sequence of recovery that most patients go through. To answer the question of what the duration of stiffness after total knee replacement surgery is, read on.

Your surgeon may or may not have discussed the actually healing process with you yet. As you heal, your knee will go through three fairly distinct stages of rehabilitation. As a patient undergoing an intensive surgery like full knee replacement, it is critical for you to understand what you can expect once the surgery is in the past and you are doing your best to speed up the healing process. The first phase is undoubtedly the most painful with accurately descriptive words like swelling, throbbing and uncomfortable stiffness. To help decrease the duration of stiffness after total knee replacement, pumping the knee back and forth five or ten times is recommended. It can loosen up the knee and prevent spasms.

The next phase is when you really need to be careful. You may think your knee is ready to handle certain things it truly is not capable of yet. Newfound freedom of walking with a walker or cane can usually be accomplished at this point, but be sure to not overdo it. The final stage is the long-term healing. Your surgeon will probably tell you a year is about the time frame you can expect to be fully healed at. Before this amount of time has passed however, you should be able to perform many basic high-impact activities within reason and the duration of stiffness after total knee replacement should not be a topic of discussion anymore. By the end of this phase, you will have achieved the highest range of motion and lack of stiffness you can expect to get out of your artificial knee.

If you want to decrease the duration of stiffness after total knee replacement to far under the final stage of healing, there are certain things you must incorporate into your everyday life. Exercising methods will increase mobility and decrease recovery time while the right diet will keep your weight down and prevent unneeded stress to be put on your knee as it heals.

A Strict doctor ordered rehabilitation always follows knee replacement surgery. Unfortunately, this rehab is only enough to give you some mobility and get back part of your life. They don't expect people with knee replacements to have the full abilities like they once did, so they don't even try. With the right exercise and routines, though, you can have that life back, despite what the doctors tell you. Take the time to learn about rehabilitation from knee replacement surgery, and how you can ease your fear of living a sedentary life buy taking action.

Are You Looking for Fast Sciatic Pain Treatment?

Of course you are, this stuff hurts. Up until now, you have probably thought that you were going to be stuck 'riding it out' when that pain hit. That you would just have to grin and bear it until the pain decided to take mercy on you and leave on it's own.

This is no way to live. Thankfully, you don't have to live this way anymore.

Yes, this pain is almost unbearable. Yes, this is the kind of pain that you plan your life around. Yes, this pain completely and utterly stinks.

But there is a light at the end of this miserable tunnel. There is a way to stop this pain when it starts. A way to find real and fast relief. And the best part is that you don't even have to leave the house for it.

That sure beats going to the doctors or pharmacy for pain medicine doesn't it?

The Fast and Easy Sciatic Nerve Pain Exercise - guaranteed to knock your socks off and scare your pain away.

1 - lie on your back (how many exercises start off this nicely?)

2 - have your knees bent and feet on the floor

3 - bring your knees up to your chest as far as you can (don't be a superhero, if your pain gets worse, don't go any further. The worst thing you want to do is find yourself in more pain).

4 - use your abs to raise your booty off of the floor slightly.

Your aim is just to raise and lower. This will stretch out your back muscles without making them angry. Stretching these muscles is very important because it takes pressure off of the sciatic nerve.

Try to start with 5 -10 reps. You can add more or do less depending on what your pain level requires.

Do you have sore knee caps?

Sometimes the pain for a sore knee cap is due to climbing or descending a set of stairs, or getting up from a seated position. Other times it is caused from sitting in a position where your knees are bent, and after hours of the same position, the pain can get to be really bad! - Can you relate to any of these scenarios?

These are all scenarios the involve daytime activities (unless you walk in your sleep) But what if you end up moving your legs into this same bent position while sleeping? Gosh, What a thought! The truth is you will end putting your knees through the same irritation they experience in your waking moments, but you might not even know it. - Many people do not think about this but the irritation can also build at night when you are not even really conscious of the problem.

This can result in a restless feeling wherein you will not get the sleep and rest that you need, and these days we all could use as much sleep as we can get! Moving around at night and allowing your knees to move into the same irritating position can actually result in additional irritation and could possibly worsen your pain issues you are having currently.

How Can I Help Control My Legs At Night?

The answer to this question will help ease the discomfort you have... Many times you can help control sore knee caps with a simple knee brace. These braces can help control your knee cap from deviating into painful and more unstable positions whether you are still awake or not.

Well designed knee braces are designed to move with the shape of the knee. They are helpful because they help restrict excessive positions where the pain comes due to misalignment. Some supports are more restrictive than others so it is always good to ask the brace provider for optimal brace for your needs.

Implementing the use of a knee brace both while sleeping and while awake has proven effective in alleviating many common pains and soreness that inflict so many people's knee caps. - Do not look back regretting what you could have done to help support your knee.

Question: Do you know how the soreness sets in for you? - We would like to know.

How confident are you as a manager?

What situations make you feel a little unsure, uncomfortable or less confident about how to handle?

For the new manager, being thrust into suddenly having responsibility for achieving through others can feel daunting, intimidating or overwhelming. (Particularly when some of those "others" may be people you used to work alongside).

Even for the manager who has been managing for years, with the ever-changing market place, new technologies and a more diverse range of ages and cultures in your workplace, there are likely to be many situations which leave you feeling a little nervous or unsure.

Way back in my career as a teacher, I remember standing nervously in front of 30 expectant, intelligent, articulate individuals, all waiting to see how well I would perform, how successfully I could engage them, and how much of a "pushover" I was going to be!

Did it make my knees knock a little? You bet!

Later, as I took my first tentative steps towards mentoring, coaching and managing others in industry, I would feel those same feelings: nervousness; worried about my ability to manage what could be some quite tricky situations; concern about how others might perceive me and just a little vulnerable - did I know enough to do this job well?

Where do managers feel a lack of confidence?

There are three key areas which many managers report are the most tricky for them. What are they?

1. Managing others who have higher qualifications than you or who are qualified in a different discipline.

2. Influencing peers or external stakeholders where you have no direct authority, but good working relationships with these people are fundamental to good performance.

3. Managing upwards. Whew is this a biggie! In many of the workshops I run, when I ask people to think of who they most want to be more effective at managing, a staggering proportion of those attending include their immediate line manager or higher in their top 3.

Each of these situations requires both consummate communication skills and a high degree of self-confidence.

So, what does a manager need to do to increase their confidence in these, or any other, "tricky" situations?

5 keys to building your self-confidence as a manager:

1. Do what you believe to be right - even if others mock or criticise you for it. From the moment you take on any management role, others are looking at you to see what kind of a manager you are going to be. Just as those children were "sussing me out" in the classroom all those years ago, your staff are doing the same with you. How you behave sets the scene for everything else.

This is about two things really: a) Getting absolutely clear about what's really important to you, in terms of what needs to be accomplished, and what attitudes and behaviours you expect. Think of it as creating your own vision of "how we do things around here".

b) When it comes to core values about how people work together you never compromise. In all else, you are open to suggestion and influence. In recent studies, outstanding managers, with the highest performing, most committed teams, all had crystal clear ideas about the kind of culture they wanted to create, and what was important to them - and they communicated this to everyone they worked with and gained "buy in" from all key stakeholders.

When you feel clear and comfortable about what's really important to you, and everything you do demonstrates this, even if others don't always agree with you, they will respect your integrity, trust you, and know where they stand. Chances are you'll have fewer tricky situations in future too!

2. Realise you don't have to know it all. There's a very interesting video on "You-Tube" which really demonstrates the almost frightening pace of change which affects business today. Check out Karl Fisch's "Shift Happens" when you have a moment.

For now, it's useful to see your role, not as being an "expert" at a particular subject, but rather an "expert" at helping to facilitate the expertise of others!

Instead of being intimidated by someone who seems more qualified than you, ask yourself: "How can I utilise this expertise for the benefit of the individual, the team, and the organisation?"

When you focus on what you can do to help others help you achieve the overall goals, not only do you get better results, you develop an awesome reputation as a highly skilled leader.

Every really successful CEO I've ever come across sees others' expertise and ambition as an opportunity - not a threat! The best managers just need to know how to engage smart people to get the job done.

3. Be willing to take risks, and go the extra mile to achieve things Building your own sense of personal power and influence comes from being willing to take risks yourself; from facing your fears, and dealing with what you know needs to be done.

At a personal level, if you don't face the underperforming member of staff, for example, because you don't feel confident to deal with it, you become trapped and nothing will be resolved until something forces the situation. Your confidence is likely to decrease even more as time goes on. Meanwhile, don't kid yourself others aren't noticing. They are. And this will further dent your confidence.

4. Admit your mistakes - and learn from them This really follows on from tip number 3.

If you're going to be willing to take risks - you won't always get it right! However, as long as you learn from that mistake, you will be ready to try something different, and each time you do, you'll increase your confidence. And if you create a culture where others see it's OK to make mistakes, you'll build the confidence of your staff too!

5. Give credit to others We all know people who are expert at extolling their own virtues! Individuals who have a high level of self-esteem and confidence don't need to shout about their accomplishments.

Don't feel the need to shout about what you've done, or what you know. Instead, give others the limelight at every opportunity. Whether you're managing up, down or across, think of how you can help others to excel, and you are more likely to be rewarded with excellence.

And when you achieve excellent results, allow yourself a pat on the back, accept any compliments about how well you managed those diverse individuals gracefully, and get excited about the next challenges!

Copyright (c) 2010 Shona Garner

Let's be blunt about it: if you play basketball, there's two leagues of people - those who can dunk, and those who cannot. Although you might think it's just a question of height, this is not at all the case. Of course, being tall helps, but even average height people - 5ft 9 or 5ft 10 - can learn to perform amazing dunks. How? It's obvious - by improving their vertical jump. Now, there is a lot of ways to skin the jumping cat, but not all are equally effective (and some can actually be rather dangerous). I've put together a collection of tips and tricks that helped me improve my vertical jump from near nothing (after knee surgery on my jump leg and rehabilitation) to over 30 inches within 9 months.

Tip 10) Always warm up before exercise. Trying to push your muscles to the max without warming up appropriately before (with light exercises such as running up or down stairs, or jumping with a jumprope) is a bad idea and can easily lead to strains and other problems.

Tip 9) A basic jumping exercise is the squat with weight. While standing, slowly bend your knees with your back straight. Go down pretty low (you shouldn't feel any pain or be uncomfortable), then slowly go back up. Doing this slow is key for building up quad muscle volume and power. Start without weights and increase difficulty by gradually raising the number of repetitions. People with major jumping power can easily do 100+ such squats. If you hold a weight such a dumbbell or barbell, hold it behind your head,
in one vertical line with your spine.

Tip 8) Separate weight training days from speed/plyometric days. Medical studies have shown that mixing these different types of exercises is actually bad for the results.

Tip 7) Use jumping rope. Although sometimes shunned as "uncool", it is the basic plyometric exercise and one of the best ways to improve the explosiveness and power of your legs.

Tip 6) Never relax and let go during your waking time. During my rehab, I was hell-bent on getting my leg back to the same power level as before, and beyond that. I didn't just exercise every day - I did it nearly
permanently. Of course, you can't do heavy squats or plyometrics all the time because your legs can just do so much until they tire. However, even little things like walking toe-heel style instead of flat-footed, standing on half-bent legs while doing household stuff, or playing with your quads and calves while
sitting, are very effective when done regularly over a long period of time.

Tip 5) Calf exercise. It's not only the big upper leg muscle groups that determine your total jump height. Powerful calves can easily add another couple of inches that you may be missing for a resounding dunk. The basic calf exercise is toe raises: stand upright, raise on your toes, go down, and repeat it 50-100 times. When your calves feel hot and burning, it's time to make a break. A somewhat better variation is: stand on some stable horizontal ledge only with your toes and front part of the foot. Hold yourself at something with your hand. Go down with your heels about 30-45 degrees below the ledge, then push up until you are on your toes. Repeat as many times as you need to tire your calves. Again, key is slow and steady. Don't pump up and down. It may be easier, but the effect is nowhere near the same.

Tip 4) Don't overwork your leg muscles. Our muscles grow best when subjected to a cycle-wise load: a heavy workout, then a day of rest or just light exercise. To push your maximum jumping ability, you need
the large leg muscles to perform at their peak (and beyond). When overworked, they are unable to deliver that performance, and your jump does not improve despite exercising. A sign of overworking is when your leg muscles ache or burn.

Tip 3) Don't just jump mindlessly. Focus on jumping completely. With every jump, aim to leap as high as you can. Scientific tests have shown that persistent focus on a physical activity improves the results by 10-20% on average.

Tip 2) Don't expect results too soon, and never give up. I know several guys who bought expensive plyometric programs or jumpsoles expecting some kind of miracle within a few days. There's no such thing
though, so once they didn't see the quick results, their determination sizzled away and their jumpsoles would sit gathering dust. Although there are good programs around, there's no miracles. The only thing that will radically improve your vertical is tenacity. Exercise a lot. Regularly. Make it your habit. Do it for months. Then - and only then - the really impressive results will come.

Tip 1) Plyometric exercise. You may have heard the word. Basically it stands for making a muscle contract immediately following relaxation, and repeating it many times. Applied to jumping in a basic case, it means that you jump, go down in the knees when you land relaxing your muscles, and immediately jump up again from the crouched position. This is tiring as hell, and for a reason - it puts the maximum stress on the
large leg muscles. If you are not used to it, your legs will probably ache after a few dozen repetitions. However, nothing beats this kind of exercise if you want to improve your jump quickly.

These tips should already get you underway, but they are just the tip of the iceberg. There's a bunch of other highly effective, yet not so widely known techniques on quickly improving your vertical. Check out
http://www.howtodunk.org for a lot more effective, hands-on info on learning to dunk.

An analogy for CCL (cranial cruciate ligament) ruptures is like having a door break a hinge. Then the door won't open or close very well - usually causing a lot of scraping on the floor. Something similar happens in the stifle joint (the knee joint of a dog). The bones are no longer properly aligned, and the joint doesn't work well, causing inflammation, pain, and damage to the cartilage.

Most clients bringing in a pet with a CCL rupture say that it occurred during running, fetching, or playing with another dog. To the owner, it may appear as an acute (or quick onset) injury, but that is not so. This is a chronic disease in dogs, unlike humans. Human ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) traumas are almost always the result of athletic injuries.

Typically, when the CCL (cranial cruciate ligament) ruptures, the femur rides backwards on the tibia, and the tibia wants to come forward. The medical term for this phenomenon is cranial tibial subluxation. The end-effect is that it can be excruciatingly painful for your dog.

It's often asked, "What's the difference between canine knee ligament injuries and human knee ligament injuries?"

Primarily, the stance of the human knee is different than the stance of the dog's knee. People stand straight up, with the joint at an angle of 180 degrees, with their femur directly on top of their tibia. Dogs, on the other hand, stand with the stifle joint at angle of 135 degrees.

Because of the angle, every time that a dog stands, the bone alignment is dependent upon an intact CCL to hold the bones in place in the stifle (knee) joint. Chronic wear and tear on the CCL causes it to ultimately fail.

Using another analogy, you could say that the CCL is like a rope made up of many fibers. With time and stress, the fibers of the rope slowly break down until it is so weak that it can't do its job anymore and breaks.

Most dogs are brought to a vet when the CCL finally breaks and the dog is so lame that it either can't bear any weight, or can only touch its toes to the ground.

There can certainly be a partial tear, which can be just as painful, and can leave the CCL just as incapacitated. This is important because CCL injury is always accompanied by some form of osteoarthritis or degenerative joint disease. This arthritis is irreversible.

Most surgeries slow the progression of arthritis, but it cannot prevent the arthritis that has already set in, therefore the stifle joint is never the same as if it had an intact CCL. (The world is not perfect!)

Do you enjoy bowling, but your knee pain or instability are a growing concern for you?

Introduction: Bowling is great. Many of us would agree that being involved in the sport brings the game more to life. However, it is hard to stay involved if your knee pain or instability are getting the best of you. - This free article will discuss why bowlers turn to a knee brace when they play, and what many of said when they first try on their new knee support.

1.) Why Bowlers Turn To A Knee Brace

As you approach each shot on the lane, the last thing you want to be focusing on is the nagging knee pain or instability problem that you are suffering from. Rest, ice and elevation can really be of help, but these are methods you will use after you perform an activity and none of them are quite the same as a well designed knee brace.

The great thing about knee supports is that you can use them during an activity and many people often call their knee brace their "pain pill". - Improved knee support, pain reduction and more knee protection are the main reasons why bowlers and other individuals state that they use knee braces on a regular basis.

2.) What People Say When They First Get A Knee Support

In a clinical setting, we asked many athletes, how their knee felt after they put on their new knee brace for the first time. The overwhelming response we get from people is that almost within the first few seconds they will state that their knee pain went down. Next they will usually say that the brace feels comfortable and now they feel much more stable, when they start to take a few steps. - The great thing about knee braces is that you do not just have to use the support for the activity of bowling. You can use it for multiple activities for support.

3.) Mental Support & No Regrets

The last points that we would like to make here are important for you to consider. Many people indicate that their confidence improves with the new knee support that they get because they do not have to worry so much about their knee pain or the joint giving out from underneath them. Also, it is a very good idea to support your knee now, in order to help avoid any knee issue from getting worse. (*This is health information, not medical advice. Self diagnosis is not recommended and it is also important to speak with your doctor about medical advice.)

Arthritic knee joints may be repaired either partially or totally - known as partial knee replacement and total knee replacement.  A partial knee replacement is also called unicompartmental or "UNI".  If the bone disease is restricted to the inner side of the knee (the 'medial' side), the surgeon will simply reshape those damaged surfaces. The repaired surfaces on that one side of the knee are then partially covered with a combination of metal and plastic bearings. For this reason, a UNI knee replacement is considered less invasive and can provide much shorter recovery times from the operation.

The primary limitation with the UNI procedure is that the surgery only works for bone that has not been too damaged by the arthritis. It also requires that the other ('lateral') side of the knee joint have healthy cartilage. The average age of UNI knee patients will therefore be a lot younger than those going for total knee replacement. This means that the UNI resurfacing option may only be a good choice for a small percentage of knee patients.

Generally speaking, UNI knee replacements are not performed on patients with arthritic damage on both sides of the knee. In more arthritic knees, there will be considerable erosion and deformity on both sides of the knee joint (as in 'medial' and 'lateral' sides). This will require more repair of the upper joint bone and the lower joint bone and sometimes also behind the knee cap. The UNI knee cannot accommodate such destructive changes in bone structure. Therefore in this case a surgeon will often opt to perform a total knee replacement - resurfacing bone with metal cap and tray.

Note that the most common method of fixing both implants to the bone is with bone cement. There are also options to provide for bony attachment and ingrowth onto the implants (bone ingrowth fixation). The final step is to insert a plastic cover onto the metal tray to act as the bearing knee for the knee joint.

There are other options to consider. The majority of knee patients do not get their patella replaced although this may become an option further down the road. There are also indications for knee operations that make use of smaller incisions (MIS: 'minimally invasive surgery') and use different kinds of instrumentation such as computer-assisted navigation (NAV).

Your doctor should explain to you which type of knee replacement surgery is best for you and why.

Knee pain can be quite debilitating, as it is one of the most used and complex joints of the human body. The stability of the knee is due to four ligaments, muscles and the actual joint structure. During the course of a normal day, the knee goes through a whole range of motions, from sitting, walking, twisting etc.

The knee also supports out weight in conjunction to the feet. Because of the abuse we put our knees through there can be damage to the muscle, cartilage or the joint itself. Some of the pain can be alleviated with the use of anti-inflammatory ointments or tablets, more severe cases need medical attention for a more effective treatment while some patients have even had their knee or knees replaced.

Symptoms

These can vary from person to person and can range from nagging to acute pain.

* Discomfort while doing normal daily chores
* Inflammation of the joint
* Tenderness around the area
* Instability [knee gives way for no reason]
* Locking
* A feeling of grinding
* Popping
* Stiffness
* Injury to the knee
* Can manifest it-self with body aches and back pain

Causes

Traditionally caused by old age or injury, in this day and age there are more modern causes to this problem:

* Septic arthritis
* Osteoarthritis
* Arthritis
* Gout
* Rheumatoid arthritis
* Bursitis
* Tendonitis

Moreover, of course are all the injuries we can sustain due to sport e.g. dislocation, torn ligaments, cartilage injury etc. Painful knee injuries or conditions can interfere with a person's way of life; some may require surgery while others need extensive rehabilitation therapy.

Home remedies

1) Oil massage - using coconut or olive oil, warm it up and massage the knee in circular movements. This will encourage a better blood flow to the region and ease any inflammation that may be present, thus easing the pain in the area.

2) Herbs - cat claw, devil's claw and boswellia have known abilities and nutrients, which help assist in alleviating pain and inflammation.

3) R.I.C.E - using this method you can ease the pressure we all put on our knees. [R = rest, I = ice pack, C = compression and E = elevate]. This is a simple way to treat your knee if any trouble flares up.

4) Diet - obesity can cause endless knee problems and it is recommended that you go on a specialized diet and try get back to your ideal weight.

5) Exercise - avoid the exercises that put stress on the problematic knee, but remember to do some strength building exercises to help improve the strength of the knee.

Painful knee problems can also benefit from a well balanced diet plan, remember to drink your usual 2 liters of water every day and limit your intake of salt, fat, alcohol and processed sugars or foods etc.