Types of Knee Pain and What You Should Do

In today's article we're going to discuss types of knee pain.

So, what if you have knee pain?

The first thing that you need to pay attention to is to get an accurate diagnosis of your knee pain. You can get that by visiting a physical therapist or a specialist doctor or your general physician.

A specialist or physical therapist can make a diagnosis with manual testing. In other words, the specific health care practitioner can do some specific movements on your knee to assess the ligaments, to assess the joint integrity, and make a determination on the possible cause of your knee pain.

Most common, you will have an X-ray, and if a follow-up study is needed, you might go for an MRI to diagnose if you have a tear to your ligaments or cartilage. If you have severe arthritis, that will show up on an X-ray as well.

After an accurate diagnosis is made, it is important that the correct plan of treatment is prescribed for you.

Now, there are different types of knee pain. And depending on the type of knee pain that you have, based on the diagnosis, the correct plan of treatment will be made.

So, if you have patellar tendonitis for example, this might simply be cured by working to restore your muscle imbalance, working with a physical therapist on strengthening the muscles surrounding your joint and restoring flexibility. You might even need to have some taping to your patella to improve the tracking of your patella and engage the correct muscles to restore proper tracking.

A second type of cause for knee pain would be a tear of some sort.

Now, if you've got a tear in a meniscus or cruciate ligament, mostly you're going to have to have some sort of invasive procedure. Whether it be an arthroscopic procedure, or a more severe where a cruciate or a posterior cruciate ligament might be damaged. The surgeon might need to attach that and anchor it to the bone.

A third type of knee pain is attributed to muscle imbalances like patella tracking issues.

This plus other inflammatory conditions of the knee like tendonitis of the medial and lateral collateral ligaments are very common and a common cause of knee pain. By restoring your muscle imbalance this can be corrected.

For me, one of the main root causes of joint damage as well as joint pain is muscle imbalance.

At http://www.PhysicalTherapyTV.com we have a special report that show you how to deal with muscle imbalance and avoid common knee injuries.

In conclusion, it is important that you get an accurate diagnosis first before attempting and procedure or exercise since it could lead to more damage to your knee.