Below are the opinion from Senior Orthppaedic surgeon Dr Kevin Yip from Singapore Sports and Orthopaedic Clinic.
The various treatments available for knee pain (Osteoarthritis) include:
- - Joint and muscle exercise to improve strength flexibility. This will reduce the force going through the join
- - Weight management to relieves stress on the weight-bearing joints
- - Glucosamine Sulphate 1500mg per day
- - Anti-inflammatory drugs and analgesics
- - Injection of lubricant into knee
- - Arthroscopy to wash away the inflamed fluid, debris and loose fragments inside the joint. Abrasive-therapy to stimulate cartilage growth
- - Osteotomy to straighten the leg to reduce the stress acting on the bad part of the knee.
- - Partial knee replacement (unicompartmental knee- replaced only diseased portion of the joint)
- - Total knee replacement (used when severe osteoarthritis is present)
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