The main causes of knee soreness and swelling may be due to arthritis, joint effusion, and excessive exercise. Treatment mainly includes physical therapy and medication.
1. Physical therapy: patients who exercise too much first need to rest, braking, so that the body self-repair; secondly, patients can take hot compresses, massage, deep microwave and other physical therapy to accelerate blood circulation in the lower limbs, promote the metabolism of the product faster discharged, alleviate the symptoms.
2. Drug therapy: mainly including non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, glucocorticoids, antibiotics and so on. The main role of the first two drugs is to relieve pain, inhibit the inflammatory response, reduce joint swelling, commonly used drugs such as diclofenac, dexamethasone, etc.; antibiotics are mainly used to control the infection for patients with joint effusion, such as cephalosporins.
All of the above medications should be used under the guidance of a doctor to avoid self-medication.
There may be other reasons for knee joint soreness and swelling, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and then give targeted treatment or therapy.