Teenage knee pain may be caused by physiological reasons such as growing pains and excessive exercise, or it may be caused by pathological factors such as trauma and gout.
1. Physiological reasons: due to the rapid growth and development of adolescent patients, the growth of the bony structure of the knee joint can not keep up with the speed of the surrounding soft tissues, resulting in pain in the knee joint bony tissues and soft tissues do not develop in a coordinated manner. In addition, teenagers are more energetic and have more activities, which may lead to fatigue of the soft tissues around the knee joint, and may also cause pain in the knee.
2. Pathological factors: teenagers often participate in sports activities, it is easy to cause knee trauma knee pain, common trauma include patella fracture, meniscus injury, cruciate ligament, collateral ligament injury.
Teenagers with gout may also experience a sharp rise in uric acid levels due to dietary intolerance, which may affect the knee joints.
Sometimes the symptoms of knee pain alone can not accurately determine the cause, but also need to be combined with the characteristics of the medical history, other test results in order to make an accurate judgment, it is recommended to clarify the cause of the disease under the guidance of a doctor.