Knee Problems and Injuries

• Knee Problems and Injuries

  Looks at sudden injuries like meniscus tears or torn ligaments that cause knee pain. Covers injuries like bursitis and tendinitis caused by overuse. Includes tool to help you decide when to call a doctor. Offers home treatment and prevention tips.

• Baker's Cyst

  Discusses Baker's cyst (also called popliteal cyst), a pocket of fluid that forms a lump behind the knee. Covers causes such as swelling from arthritis and knee injury. Discusses symptoms. Covers treatment, including things to do at home and surgery.

• Hip Problems, Age 12 and Older

  Hip pain can make it hard to walk, go up and down stairs, squat, or sleep on the side that hurts. A clicking or snapping feeling or sound around your hip joint (snapping hip) may bother you or cause you to worry. But if your hip is not painful, in many cases the click or snap is nothing to worry about. Home treatment...

• Iliotibial Band Syndrome

  The iliotibial band is a band of fibrous tissue that runs down the outside of the thigh. It provides stability to the knee and hip and helps prevent dislocation of those joints. The band may overdevelop, tighten, and rub across the hipbone or the outer part of the knee. Each time the knee is bent or the hip flexed, the...

• Knee Bursitis and Tendon Injury: Preventing Pain

  Patellar tendinopathy, also known as jumper's knee, affects the tendons that attach the kneecap to the shinbone and the quadriceps tendon to the kneecap. Prolonged kneeling can cause prepatellar bursitis, which can develop into an egg-shaped bump on the front of the kneecap. To prevent and ease knee pain during work...

• Knee Arthritis: What Is Osteoarthritis?

  Learn what knee osteoarthritis is and what may cause it.

• Arthritis: Shots for Knee Pain

  Arthritis hurts. And it can make it harder to move your joints. When you don't move your joints as much, your ligaments, tendons, and muscles can shorten and get weaker. But knee shots, or injections, can help you cope with the pain and be more...

• Physical Therapy for Knee Arthritis

  Painful knee arthritis can keep you from being as active as you need to be. You may not walk as much. You may avoid going up and down stairs. But when you don't move that knee as much, the ligaments, tendons, and muscles around it can shorten and...

• Knee Arthritis: What Can I Expect?

  Learn how osteoarthritis usually begins, and listen to stories of how it can progress differently in different people.

• Knee Arthritis: Nonsurgical Treatments

  Learn about different treatments for knee arthritis other than surgery.

• Knee Replacement Surgery: Pros and Cons

  Learn about the pros and cons of having knee replacement surgery.

• Knee Arthritis: What Is Knee Replacement Surgery?

  Learn how cartilage is replaced by implants in knee replacement surgery.

• Knee Replacement: Recovery

  Learn about recovering from knee replacement surgery, and listen to stories about different recovery experiences.

• Knee Arthritis: Treatments

  Learn about the different treatment options for knee arthritis, and hear stories of what others have tried.

• Knee Replacement Surgery: How Others Decided

  Hear what other people thought about as they decided whether to have knee replacement surgery.

• Knee Replacement: When Can You Be Active Again?

  Learn how long it might take to start doing everyday activities again after a knee replacement.

• Knee Arthroscopy

  Learn how knee arthroscopy is done and what to expect after surgery.

• Deciding About Knee Replacement Surgery

  Learn the pros and cons of having a knee replacement.

• Knee Replacement Surgery

  Learn what to expect during knee replacement surgery and how it can ease the pain of arthritis.

• Knee Replacement Surgery

  Covers surgery to replace the ends of bones in a damaged joint. Includes slideshow on knee replacement. Looks at why surgery is done, risks, and how well it works. Discusses what to expect after surgery and living with a knee replacement.

• Arthritis: Should I Have Knee Replacement Surgery?

  Guides through decision to have knee replacement surgery for osteoarthritis. Describes other surgeries and treatment options used to decrease osteoarthritis pain. Covers benefits and risks. Includes an interactive tool to help you make your decision.

• RICE: Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation

  Learn steps you can take at home to reduce pain and swelling after a sprain or strain.

• Knee Problems and Injuries

  Looks at sudden injuries like meniscus tears or torn ligaments that cause knee pain. Covers injuries like bursitis and tendinitis caused by overuse. Includes tool to help you decide when to call a doctor. Offers home treatment and prevention tips.

• Meniscus Surgery

  Learn how surgery for a meniscus tear is done and what to expect after surgery.

• Knee Arthroscopy

  Learn how knee arthroscopy is done and what to expect after surgery.

• Knee Problems and Injuries

  Looks at sudden injuries like meniscus tears or torn ligaments that cause knee pain. Covers injuries like bursitis and tendinitis caused by overuse. Includes tool to help you decide when to call a doctor. Offers home treatment and prevention tips.

• Meniscus Tear

  What is a meniscus tear? A meniscus tear is a common knee injury. The meniscus is a rubbery, C-shaped disc that cushions your knee. Each knee has two menisci (plural of meniscus)—one at the outer edge of the knee and one at the inner edge. The menisci keep your knee steady by balancing your weight across the knee. A...

• Meniscus Tear: Should I Have a Diagnostic Test (MRI or Arthroscopy)?

  Guides through decision to have a diagnostic test like an MRI or arthroscopy done on a meniscus tear. Describes the two tests. Lists the three types of meniscus tears. Covers benefits and risks. Includes an interactive tool to help you make your decision.

• Meniscus Tear: Should I Have Surgery?

  Guides you through the decision to have surgery for a torn meniscus. Explains two kinds of surgery. Explains when surgery is done. Lists risks and benefits of surgery for meniscus tear. Includes interactive tool to help you decide.

• Meniscus Surgery: Recovery Time

  Surgery to repair a torn meniscus involves rehabilitation, although it varies depending on the injury, the type of surgery, and your orthopedist's preference. In general, meniscus surgery is followed by a period of rest, walking, and selected exercises. Every recovery is different and depends on many things. But here...

• Meniscectomy for a Meniscus Tear

  Meniscectomy is the surgical removal of all or part of a torn meniscus. A meniscus tear is a common knee joint injury. Surgeons who perform meniscectomies ( orthopedic surgeons) will make surgical decisions based on the meniscus's ability to heal as well as your age, health, and activity level. Your doctor will...

• Meniscus Repair

  A meniscus tear is a common injury to the cartilage that stabilizes and cushions the knee joint. The type of the tear can determine whether your tear can be repaired. Radial tears sometimes can be repaired, depending on where they are located. Horizontal, flap, long-standing, and degenerative tears—those caused by years...

• Meniscus Tear: Rehabilitation Exercises

  A meniscus tear is a common knee joint injury. How well the knee will heal and whether surgery will be needed depends in large part on the type of tear and how bad the tear is. Work with your doctor to plan a rehabilitation (rehab) program that helps you regain as much strength and flexibility in your knee as possible...

• Osgood-Schlatter Disease

  Osgood-Schlatter disease is a knee problem that causes pain and swelling in the shinbone (tibia) just below the kneecap (patella). This is the spot where the patellar tendon attaches to a bony mound in the knee called the tibial tubercle. Older...

• Patellar Subluxation

  A subluxation is a partial dislocation. The kneecap, or patella, can sublux out of its normal position more easily when the thigh muscles are weak, when the patella is not firmly held by the surrounding tendons and ligaments, or when there is a problem with the alignment or structure of the knee bones. A patellar...

• Patellar Tracking Disorder

  Discusses patellar tracking disorder, a problem that causes kneecap instability. Covers causes and symptoms. Covers treatment with physical therapy and surgery for severe cases. Links to exercises that can be done at home.

• Patellar Dislocation

  The kneecap (patella) is normally positioned over the front of the knee joint at the base of the thighbone (femur). A kneecap can be dislocated, or moved out of its normal position, when: The inner edge of the kneecap is hit, pushing it toward the outer side of the leg. This can happen more easily if there is patellar...

• Patellar Tracking Disorder: Exercises

  This article shows how to do easy and then more difficult exercises to help with patellar tracking disorder.

• Knee Problems and Injuries

  Looks at sudden injuries like meniscus tears or torn ligaments that cause knee pain. Covers injuries like bursitis and tendinitis caused by overuse. Includes tool to help you decide when to call a doctor. Offers home treatment and prevention tips.

• Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

  What is patellofemoral pain syndrome? Patellofemoral pain syndrome is pain in the front of the knee. It frequently occurs in teenagers, manual laborers, and athletes. It sometimes is caused by wearing down, roughening, or softening of the cartilage under the kneecap. What causes patellofemoral pain syndrome...

• Plica in the Knee

  Plica in the knee is a ridge or fold of the tissues lining the knee joint (synovium). Normally a plica does not cause problems, but it can become inflamed and thickened from injury or overuse. This is called "plica syndrome." Plica syndrome can interfere with normal joint function and cause pain when the thickened...