Your knees have lots of parts, and you use them a lot, so there's plenty that could go wrong. WebMD explains common things that can cause knee pain.
Your symptoms of lump at back of knee and upper thigh swelling and burning feeling points out to one diagnosis: Baker's cyst.Baker's cyst is a lump behind the knee, basically a poket filled with synovial fluid. It could have happened after a trauma, a knee injury. At times, the fluid...
This may be due to a Baker’s Cyst, which is an accumulation of synovial fluid in the popliteal fossa. The synovial fluid is over-produced, due often to a trauma to the knee or in conditions such as arthritis. The cyst may clear up on its own, but if not it is advisable to visit...
Pain.It’s a powerful word that creates strong feelings. Think back to the last time you experienced pain. If you’re like most people, you probably remember some event that caused it—a paper cut, a sprained ankle, or a skinned knee. Most people believe that back pain operates the same...
Pain is radicular in nature (radicular signs may include, but are not limited to, a positive straight leg raise or a dermatomal pattern of sensory loss). Note: In low back pain, radicular means pain and/or numbness that radiates below the knee; in neck pain, it is pain, numbness or ...
Hyaluronic acid for the treatment of osteoarthritis in all joints except the knee: what is the current evidence?. BioDrugs. 2012. 26:101-12. [QxMD MEDLINE Link]. Rigon M, Pereira LM, Bortoluzzi MC, et al. Arthroscopy for temporomandibular disorders. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 May ...
A 67-years-old man suffered from relapsing moderate fever and back pain after arthroscopy of the knee under peridural anaesthesia. Antibiotics given for suspected iatrogenic infection was started, but was without improvement. After 4 months under several antibiotic regimes his condition rapidly deteriorat...
Quadriplegic pattern: Diplegic patterning in addition to flexion of the elbow, flexion of the wrist and fingers, adduction of the thumb, and internal rotation, pronation, or adduction of the arms Hemiplegic pattern: Plantar flexion of the ankle, flexion of the knee, adduction of the hip, flexi...
then put one foot more forward than the other, put your weight on the leg further back, and bend the knee of this leg. Now rest both hands just above the knee of the bent rear leg, and bend your top half over as far as you can to stretch the hamstring of the leg the leg you ...
Podagra (initial joint manifestation in 50% of gout cases and eventually involved in 90%; also observed in patients with pseudogout and other conditions) Arthritis in other sites – In gout, the instep, ankle, wrist, finger joints, and knee; in pseudogout, large joints (eg, the knee, wri...