Treatment methods for knee injury or degeneration FAQs

Treatment methods for knee injury or degeneration FAQs

What are the functions of our knee joint?

Knee is a complicated joint with many ligaments and multifunctional muscles crossing it. It has important functions like load bearing and smooth propulsion of the body. Another important function is that it takes torsion and shear loads and also balances them.

How injury occurs in knee joint?

During any sudden load or abrupt twisting force our knee joint gets injured. The injury may vary from simple strain to tears in meniscus or ligaments.

What are the symptoms?

Some type of injuries are very painful and rushes us to take treatment immediately, while others are less painful but functionally restrictive. The less painful variety causes chronic degeneration if left untreated.

What are the treatments usually taken?

The usual treatments followed are pain killers (creams, tablets and injections).  Heat therapy to improve circulation and reduce pain. But following such methods are uncertain (may or may not relieve the issue). Even if they do relieve the symptoms in certain people it may take them to a chronic dysfunction.

Specialities in Newzone spine and joints

We specialize in treating knee joints by finding out the root cause in acute conditions and advice our patients accordingly.

In-joint movements (arthrokinematics):

The joint not only bends and extends it also twists and rotates inside by putting load on different surfaces of the bones. When there is an alteration in such movements the loads are shifted to unusual regions and causes sequel of symptoms and internal changes. We treat the faulty arthrokinematics through graded stimulation to achieve a proper functional movement which allows us to reduce the unnecessary stress and allows the body to regain normal movements and come out of the injured state.

Calcifications:

Chronic calcifications around the meniscus (disc between the joints) or under the musculotendinous junction is relieved by controlled waves from ESWT or minimal sonic waves from an ultrasound.

Inflammations:

Acute inflammations are best treated by laser(soft laser class3-b) which helps in immediate recovery of the injured structure without the use of harmful anti-inflammatory drugs. Laser is safe as it only targets the injured tissue and works on it.