Symptoms of OA knee

Knee pain is the most common symptom of osteoarthritis in the knee, making it painful for you to jog, run, climb stairs or kneel. It can also make your knees feel stiff or swollen. Over time, osteoarthritis of the knee can change the shape of your knee joint, making your joint feel unstable.

Other symptoms are:

• Your knee feels stiff, particularly when you first get up or when you’ve been sitting for a long time.
• Your knee looks swollen or feels puffy.
• You hear a cracking or grinding noise when you move your knee.
• Your knee feels wobbly, as if it could buckle or “give out."
• Your knee might lock up, or feel as if it is stuck.

Causes of OA knee

Osteoarthritis of the knee happens when your knee joint cartilage wears out or is damaged. Articular cartilage is tough, rubbery tissue on the ends of your bones that lets you bend and move. Meniscal cartilage absorbs shock from pressure on your knee.

Your cartilage is like your car’s shock absorber, protecting your car from bumps and jolts. Drive on lots of rough roads, your shocks wear out fast. Drive on easy streets, your shocks last longer. You can wear out or damage your knee joint cartilage if:

• You’re overweight. If your body mass index (BMI) is 30 or more, you’re seven times more likely to develop osteoarthritis in your knee than someone with a lower BMI.
• You injure your knee or have an old knee injury.
• You frequently put stress on your knee at your job or playing sports.
• You inherited a tendency to develop osteoarthritis of the knee.
• You have crooked bones or joints, such as having knocked knees

Our treatment

Patient will be carefully evaluated and examined.

Marma and chiropractic modalities will be done to align the bony positions and ligament structures.

Massage and bandaging with special medicines will be done.

Followed by giving knee regenerative medicines and rasayana dravyas.

Followups will be advised to do marma corrections and procedures like agnikarma and rakthamokshana which are ayurvedic regerative modalities for normalizing the OA condition of knee even for the old-age people.