Determining efficiency of physical therapy for knee joint pain

 

This article busts all myths about the effectiveness of physical therapy and determines the real outcomes that it is seen to have given to millions of people all around the world who have turned to therapy seeking solutions for their joint pain.

It's really common for people to believe that physical therapy cannot heal serious ailments like pain in the joints. Often people call physical therapy a “ deception”. It could be so because physical therapy does not yield quick results and its basic human nature to judge almost everything that exists around us. There is nothing given to you in writing claiming that therapy will work for you and heal you completely but there are more than 20 serious health conditions that have been found to get better over time with the help of therapy. Most patients that seek physiotherapy are recommended to try it out by their primary care doctors, rheumatologists or orthopedicians.

Often physical therapy for knee is recommended by an orthopedist along with ongoing treatments to facilitate the healing process. Based on the kind of medical issue, the duration of physical therapy might be set by the therapist. Patients with knee pain often complain about a stinging sensation in the back of the knee. This happens usually in cases wherein the knee has suffered an intense injury or the patient is suffering from the baker’s cyst. Baker’s cyst is a condition in which excessive fluid gets collected in the back of your knee causing pain.  Your therapist will give you a prognosis based on your condition and will accordingly set up a procedure for your back of knee pain treatment. In cases where the patient suffers with pain in the internal part of the knee, the therapist had to choose a more complex plan for inner knee pain treatment.  Along with treatment, other pain relieving measures are also recommended for the patient to have some relief from pain. A doctor or a therapist might recommend the following to a patient on the basis of the intensity of pain : 

• In case the pain gets severe the patient might be asked to walk using crutches to take the weight off the knee for somewhile.
• A compression bandage might also be suggested to be worn to relieve pain and provide additional support to the knee.
• It might be recommended to the patient to sleep having the knee kept in an elevated position using pillows. 
• In case the pain gets unbearable, non steroidal over the counter pain medications might 
• also be prescribed. 

When all treatments are tried and tested for a patient with knee pain, and the results do not come out as desired only then doctors recommend knee joint replacement as the best suitable option for pain relief. 

Author Bio – Shreya Dhar is an experienced health writer and her literature in the health care

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