Many people complain of pain in the knee joints. Unpleasant sensations can occur intermittently, after overload and daily wear. Often there are injuries - they can be obtained during sports, in everyday life.
Causes of knee pain
The bones inside the knee joint are covered with cartilage, which acts as a shock absorber. Provides a sliding surface and absorbs impacts. Pain occurs due to damage to various structures in the knee.
The patient may be disturbed not only by pain in the knee joint from the inside or outside, but also by joint stiffness, reduced mobility. When the knee is bent, lateral movements are defective, it is impossible to fully bend the leg. External changes may be present: swelling and redness.
Pain and swelling in the knee joint can occur for the following reasons:
- Injuries and damage;
- Dislocations, sprains;
- Ruptured discs and ligaments;
- Knee fractures.
If an injury has occurred, it is very difficult to make a diagnosis on your own. When the pain does not go away and external changes appear, you should definitely go to the doctor.
The cause of the pain can be overload. Injuries are caused by repetitive movements, prolonged pressure on the knee, physical exercises.
Swelling and discomfort can occur after exercise, cycling, jumping, and brisk walking.
Pain in the knee joint following a restart can occur when walking and is explained by such reasons:
- Inflammation of bags with liquid;
- Tendon rupture or inflammation
- The formation of folds in the ligaments and thickening;
- Inflammation or irritation of the fibrous tissue from the outside.
Causes of knee pain can be more serious:
- Osteoarthritis;
- Osgood-Sputter disease;
- Baker's cyst;
- subcutaneous infections;
- pinched nerves;
- Osteochondritis.
Treatment of the knee joint with folk remedies
A folk remedy will help remove swelling and reduce discomfort. Effectively removes salt from the body's bay leaf. Pour 25-30 leaves with boiling water (400 ml) and boil for 5 minutes. Leave to infuse for several hours, filter and take in small sips. The entire volume must be drunk within 12 hours.
The treatment continues for 3 days. After it is necessary to take a week break and repeat the course again. Before taking a decoction, you should cleanse the intestines, otherwise an allergic release may occur.
When the salts begin to actively dissolve, the amount of urination will increase. It is necessary to carry out such a treatment a couple of times a year.
For pain in the knee joint, there is another effective and tasty folk remedy - aspic. Restores cartilage tissue and synovial fluid, slows the development of arthrosis. There is a lot of collagen and proteins in jellied meat, which are necessary to maintain the integrity of bones, ligaments and cartilage - this is a kind of connective material. For treatment, all dishes with jelly are suitable. Helps restore the musculoskeletal system, prevents deformation of the joints.
Trace elements and vitamins present in gelatin strengthen ligaments, maintain muscle tone. To prepare this dish, you can use pork or beef, chicken, turkey. Cover the meat with the water and keep it over low heat for several hours until the broth begins to stick to the fingers. Do not add water during the cooking process.
At the end of cooking the broth must be peppered to give it a flavor, you can add the garlic. Drain the liquid, disassemble the meat, arrange it in portions and pour the broth. Containers should be refrigerated until solidified. To be effective, this dish must be consumed at least once a day for a month.
Another source of collagen and protein is chicken cartilage. To replenish these substances, include boiled or stewed cartilage in your daily menu.
There are several ways to relieve pain and swelling:
- Grind a tablespoon of cartilage and take on an empty stomach with orange juice;
- Boil the cartilage until completely soft. Add the bay leaf, the peppercorns to the broth. Take 50-70 ml per day, diluted with water in a 1: 1 ratio;
- Boil the paws and eat two or three things on an empty stomach, be sure to drink lemon water.
Treatment of the knee joint with sunflower
Sunflower root, when used correctly, effectively removes salts that build up in the joints. It is especially useful for those people who spend a lot of time in a sitting position. The root destroys all insoluble compounds, conglomerates, removes them from the body.
Grind 100 grams of sunflower root with a blender or meat grinder, fill with water (1 liter) and boil for 10 minutes. Cool, filter and drink water together to quench your thirst.
Treatment of the knee joint "Golden Mustache"
Scientifically, this plant is called scented callisia. It is used not only for knee pain, but also for cardiovascular ailments. To make the cartilage restoration process faster, it is necessary to combine it with other means that have a similar effect. You can get field horsetail.
Mix the juice squeezed from the plant with any cream based on animal fat. The proportions are 3: 1. The composition should be rubbed into the problem area or applied as a compress.
A compress from the tincture of the "golden mustache" relieves pain. Dip the gauze and apply the joint, securing it with a bandage. You can take it off after half an hour.
Treatment of the knee joint "Lecithin"
Cleans the body of excess cholesterol, strengthens the walls of blood vessels, nerve tissues. The composition includes acetylcholine, a substance that ensures the transmission of a nerve impulse.
Take one tablespoon a day with water. The duration of treatment is one month. To enhance the effect, "lecithin" should be consumed with egg shell: it is a source of calcium. It also contains manganese, sulfur, iron, copper and other useful trace elements.
Before removing the shell, the eggs must be washed thoroughly and immersed in boiling water. After it must be crushed and added to dishes. During periods of exacerbation, the dose should be 8 grams, after exacerbations, 4-5 grams should be consumed every day for two weeks.
Knee pain recipes
Pour the rye grains (250 grams) with water (2 liters) and boil for a couple of minutes. Add honey (kilogram), vodka (500 ml), barberry root (3 tsp). Mix everything well and store in the dark for three weeks. It is necessary to take three tablespoons before meals.
If the joint hurts, cinquefoil tincture helps remove swelling and discomfort. It is necessary to clean the joints several times a day, make lotions. It can be combined with a boron uterus infusion. It must be drunk in a teaspoon before a meal in the acute period of the disease.
Grind a kilogram of horseradish, pour water (4 liters) and boil for 5 minutes, when the product has cooled add honey to taste. Drink one glass a day for a month.
In the daily diet it is necessary to include calcined cottage cheese. To prepare it, you will need potassium chloride and milk.
Heat half a liter of milk to a temperature of 50-60 degrees, pour one and a half tablespoons of calcium. After the product is curdled, remove the pan from the heat and transfer the mass to a sieve, cover with gauze. In the morning the curd is ready to eat.
Add 250 grams of pre-chopped horse chestnut to a bottle of vodka. Leave for 14 days, shaking every day.
Sore spots should be rubbed at night.
Exercises and gymnastics to relieve pain in the knee joint are prescribed by a doctor. It takes into account the nature and causes of damage and assigns loads according to their indicators. Incorrectly chosen exercises can aggravate the situation.
If the discomfort is very strong, there is tension from the inside, swelling, redness, then the treatment of pain in the knee joint can only be prescribed by a specialist after an examination.