The causes of pain when bending the knee may be physiological pain, meniscus injury, anterior cruciate ligament injury, lateral collateral ligament injury, gout and rheumatoid arthritis and chondromalacia patellae, etc. Different causes should be treated with rest, medication and surgery.
1. Physiologic pain: young people have pain when bending the knee joint, and there is no corresponding history of trauma, and the pain can be significantly relieved by rest. It may be physiologic pain.
2. Meniscus injury: meniscus injury is relatively mild can be treated conservatively, bed rest, with anti-inflammatory painkillers such as ibuprofen, to reduce the inflammatory response, such as injury is more serious, the need for arthroscopic surgery for meniscus suture or meniscoplasty.
3. Anterior cruciate ligament injury: if the injury is mild, use plaster cast or brace to fix it externally, and take non-steroidal drugs such as celecoxib orally for treatment. For more serious injuries, complete rupture of the ligament, should be actively surgical treatment, ligament repair and reconstruction.
4. Lateral payment ligament injury: when there is a lateral payment ligament injury, braking, rest, brace protection and other treatments can be taken, and patients with less serious condition can achieve better recovery, if the ligament injury is more serious or even rupture patients, may need to reconstruct the ligament through arthroscopic surgery.
5. Gout and rheumatoid arthritis: it is necessary to clarify the patient’s uric acid or rheumatoid factor situation after blood test, according to the specific cause of treatment, the treatment of the cause.
6. Chondromalacia patella: can be treated by arthroscopic surgery, loosening the tight patellar support band, grinding degeneration of peeling cartilage and so on.
Teenagers with pain when bending the knee should go to the hospital for consultation in time, and use medication reasonably under the guidance of the doctor.