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Wondering if your TKR recovery is on track? From swelling and pain to disrupted sleep, learn what’s normal after a total knee replacement and how to manage your recovery effectively. Discover tips, common experiences, and when to seek expert guidance for a smoother healing journey.
Nagging pain on the inside of your knee can disrupt daily life and activity. This blog explores the anatomy of the medial knee and delves into common causes such as meniscal tears, MCL sprains, and osteoarthritis. Discover physiotherapy-based approaches to managing pain, from conservative treatments to surgical options, and learn how to take the first steps toward relief and recovery.
Recovering from an ACL injury requires more than just focusing on the knee. Lumbopelvic stability—strength and control in the lower back and pelvis—is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of rehabilitation. Discover how it protects your knee, improves movement efficiency, and enhances recovery outcomes. Learn practical strategies to integrate core strengthening, balance training, and functional movement into your rehab journey for a more confident and pain-free return to activity.
Over recent years, a lot of attention has been focused on the potential for stem cells to treat osteoarthritis. This attention was largely due to claims that stem cells could regenerate the articular cartilage.
This treatment involves a gel-like fluid called Hyaluronic Acid (HA) being injected into your affected knee. Hyaluronic Acid is a naturally occurring substance found in the synovial fluid around joints. It acts as a lubricant to enable bones to move smoothly over each other and as a shock absorber for joint loads.
The Cochrane Collaboration states that corticosteroid injections may cause a moderate improvement in pain and a small improvement in physical function, but that the quality of the evidence is low and results are inconclusive.
Both Autologous Concentrated Plasma (ACP) and Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) are injections that are derived from your own blood. Both processes
involve spinning or centrifuging the blood until it separates into layers.
Exercise Physiologist’s use exercise and physical activity for treatment and rehabilitation. For the knee OA sufferer, they will design exercise plans that achieve strengthening and functional goals, as well as a level of general fitness.
There is strong evidence that a customised musculoskeletal program to strengthen muscle-groups and increase the knee’s range of motion is highly effective for knee OA pain management and improvement of physical function in the short and long term.
The bulk of significant favourable clinical evidence rests with the more established brands, such as Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig.
Capsaicin is the ingredient found in different types of hot peppers, such as chillies and cayenne peppers, that makes them spicy and hot. It is available as a dietary supplement and in topical creams that you apply to your skin.
Osteotomy is an operation which changes the alignment of the lower limb by cutting the tibia or femur, and adding or removing a wedge of bone. It is most commonly done for arthritis which is localised to one compartment of the knee.
Overall, the balance of evidence suggests that chondroitin may improve the pain of knee osteoarthritis (OA) slightly in the short-term (less than six months) and may have a small effect (approximately 20%) on pain.
Neuropathic pain is a complex, chronic pain state, which is usually associated with damaged tissue. There is strong evidence that some
anticonvulsant and anti-depressant medications can be effective in treating certain neuropathic (nerve) pain conditions.
There is evidence from a 2014 Cochrane review of 22 trials of opioids for osteoarthritis pain that there may be a small improvement in pain and function when compared to placebo treatment.
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