Take care of your knees

Knees are important joints of our body because they bear whole body weight during standing, walking and running. Furthermore, squatting puts pressure on knees which allows us to perform religious prayer like namaz. Healthy knee is always crucial for our daily living.

Along with some bones, knee got a lot of muscle, ligaments and meniscuses. It can move easily on directions, thanks to the lubricant like synovial fluid.

Causes of knee pain: a person who reaches his forty can expect degenerative changes in the bones of knee joint. Synovial fluid might lost its natural viscosity and inflammation could catch the ligaments, meniscus or muscles. One the other hand, body overweight or sports injury could induce knee pain at any age.

Symptoms and signs: patient might feel pain in squatting, starring or even walking and running. There might be some swelling with high temperature. Some patients cannot perform namaz or feel difficulties during sitting on a pan. Thus normal activities become limited.

Solution: infiltration of sodium hyaluronate has the ability to enhance natural viscosity of synovial fluid and could improve knee mobility. Electrotherapy is marvelous for reducing intense pain and inflammation. Therapeutic exercise for knee muscle could increase power and provide stability. However, all are the ingredients of integrated pain management (IPM).

Advice: Ignoring knee pain could make you disable. If you want to move in a perfect way, you must have to take care of your knee.

Dr Mohammad Ali is the Head of Physiotherapy Department of Uttara Adhunik Medical College Hospital, Uttara, Dhaka. Email: hprc2005@live.com