Treatments
中医诊疗所
ヒューストン鍼灸
Knee Pain
Knee pain usually results from overuse, poor form during physical activity, not warming up or cooling down, or inadequate stretching. Simple causes of knee pain often clear up on their own with self care. Being overweight can put you at greater risk for knee problems.
Knee pain can be caused by:
- Arthritis -- including rheumatoid, osteoarthritis, and gout
- Baker's cyst -- a fluid-filled swelling behind the knee that may accompany inflammation from other causes, like arthritis
- Bursitis -- inflammation from repeated pressure on the knee, such as kneeling for long periods of time, overuse, or injury
- Connective tissue disorders such as lupus
- Dislocation of the kneecap
- Iliotibial band syndrome -- a hip disorder related to injury of the thick band that runs from your hip to the outside of your knee
- Infection in the joint
- Knee injuries -- may cause bleeding into your knee, which worsens the pain
- Tendinitis -- a pain in the front of your knee that gets worse when going up and down stairs or inclines
- Torn cartilage (a meniscus tear) -- pain felt on the inside or outside of the knee joint
- Torn ligament (ACL tear) -- leads to pain and instability of the knee
- Strain or sprain -- minor injuries to the ligaments caused by sudden or unnatural twisting
The chronic arthritis knee pain is very common in over weight and senior people, compare with other kind of treatment like pain medicine or surgery, acupuncture therapy is a safety and effective method to relief pain and management.
Case Study
Arthralgia syndrome (rheumatoid arthritis)
Arthralgia syndrome (rheumatoid arthritis)
Male 48 years old, patients suffering from joint pain since 1998, climate change intensified, laboratory tests and other indicators of a normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate, unhealed after treatment. Right knee surgery was null and void. Suddenly in June this year, knee swelling, pain, stiffness, unable to walk. Examination, pulse soft and fast, tongue red, greasy tongue fur, not fever, facial pain, knee swelling, tenderness. Meridian examination: Kidney channel points gaohuangshu allergic reaction, Hand-Foot-Yangming Meridian Hegu, quchi, zusanli, there is tenderness response to points outside the court, spleen Yin Ling Quan, gongsun points tenderness reaction, the liver channel has been Taichong Point tenderness reaction. Described above wind, cold, wet into arthritis course of time, complex sense of hot and humid summer, evil from the heat of its pathogenesis, mainly in kidney, patients located in the knee. Governance in order to heat dehumidification, through the channel qi flow.
Prescription: ① gaohuang, Hegu, Taichong, Yin Ling Quan, Zusanli.
② gaohuang, ququan, waiting, gongsun.
After treatment: According to Point kidney has been giving of treatment, cleaning Spleen Meridian. Day rotation between acupoints inside and outside the knees every time the first prick in and out xiyan, leaving needles for 15 minutes. 5 clinic, the swelling and pain totally disappeared, tenderness response weakened. 10 cases after, walking as usual, joints pain, tenderness reaction disappeared. There are only slight tenderness huanshu, home to the intradermal needle observed by the end of September the same year, no recurrence.
Write by Chen Xia, PhD, LAc
June 13, 2008
Resources used: Medical Encyclopedia, National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus
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