Unpleasant sensations and pain in the knee area can be caused by various injuries and injuries. But if tendons are involved in the inflammatory process, it is most likely a tendonitis of the knee joint. The disease is often accompanied by a restriction of leg mobility and leads to severe consequences if not started on time therapy.
Symptoms of knee or knee tendonitis
Main clinical manifestations of pathology:
- prolonged, very intense pain;
- increased knee sensitivity when feeling the affected area;
- redness of the skin, increase in its temperature around the joint;
- swelling, swelling;
- reduced mobility, especially noticeable when climbing the stairs, accelerating the step;
- creaking sound when flexing and bending the knee;
- visual expression of tendons.
It should be noted that tendonitis can be caused at any age and lifestyle, as the cause of the illness is both intense physical activity and trauma, for example, in athletes, and common infections, allergic reactions of the body, rheumatic pathologies.
Tendonitis of knee or knee joint - treatment
Therapy of the disease under consideration consists primarily in stopping the inflammatory process and eliminating the painful symptoms. To do this, a variety of non-steroidal drugs are used , which have an anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect. The drugs are applied topically in the form of gels, ointments, rubbing, and also orally.
An important exercise before treating tendonitis of the knee joint is complete immobilization of the leg with a special bandage, a tire or a bandage. Due to fixation, the load on the damaged areas will be minimal, which means that the relief of the inflammatory process will be greatly facilitated. The patient is also recommended to comply with bed rest and, according to
In severe form of tendonitis, intra-articular injections with corticosteroid drugs are practiced. This method allows to achieve significant improvements already on 2-3 days after the beginning of treatment and to stop the inflammatory process, to prevent the penetration of the infection and the accumulation of exudative fluid in the periarticular bag.
If the aforementioned therapeutic measures do not help for a long time, surgical intervention is prescribed. It is worth noting that the surgical method of treatment is used extremely rarely.