When to see a doctor?
In the long term, it can be useful for some diseases of the knee joint, and especially for osteoarthritis, to reduce the individual body weight in order to prevent wear and tear of the joint. Being overweight can increase mechanical stress on the joints, even when doing normal, everyday things like climbing stairs. This in turn leads to wear and tear of cartilage in the knee joint, resulting in osteoarthritis in the long run.
Congenital problems, such as bow legs or knock-knees, or an uneven leg length, can increase the stress on a joint enormously and thus after some time cause wear and tear in the joint and pain. Different sports are predestined for an injury to the knee joint. These include skiing, soccer and jogging. A previous knee injury also increases the likelihood of a new injury.
Prognosis
In general it can be said that the more pronounced the complaints are, the more negative the prognosis is. It is important to consult a doctor and examine the knee if there are significant complaints. Most diseases should be treated with medication or surgery to ensure healing.
If timely action has been taken, the prognosis is usually positive. Aftercare of an operated joint should be carried out according to the doctor’s prescription, otherwise pain may persist for a long time. In the following descriptions of the disease, we will try to address as many of the characteristics that make up a particular clinical picture as possible.
Unfortunately, there are many deviations from the norm, so that the presumed self-diagnosis need not be correct under any circumstances. We hope, however, that our self-diagnostic will be able to help patients who search the Internet for an organ- or symptom-related disease. Ultimately, however, only a specialist examination and additional imaging procedures (X-ray, MRI, etc.) can lead to a correct diagnosis.
- Thigh bone (femur)
- Inner meniscus
- Outer meniscus
- Fibula (fibula)
- Shinbone (Tibia)
