Current Situations with Knee Pain
Do you have knee pain? If you do, you are not alone. Knee pain is one of the most common complaints of Americans of all ages. In the United States, knee pain affects approximately 25% of adults, and its prevalence has increased almost 65% over the past 20 years, accounting for nearly 4 million primary care visits annually*. In China, about 120 million Chinese suffer from knee pain.
Different knee symptoms typically appear after we turn 40 years old. But now more and more young people suffer from it because of sport and physical injuries as well as degenerating humans and their non optimal health.
Modern medicine doesn’t know the causes of most knee pains. It only knows that overweight, too much use of the knees, and improper techniques during activity may cause the pain. But many health-related problems can also lead to knee pain. Only when these health problems are solved can knee pain be completely cured. Therefore, knee pain reveals underlying problems. Different kinds of the pain, different locations on the knees of the pain, as well as many other symptoms and factors, reveal different underlying health problems. Knowing what the problems you have is critically important in healing, including healing knee pain.
Knee Pain Symptoms:
Some of the signs and symptoms of knee pain are:
- Swelling
- Redness
- Stiffness
- Weakness or instability
- Popping or crunching noises
- Inability to fully straighten the knee
Levels Of Severity of Knee Pain
Depending on the symptoms, Knee pain can be classified to three levels of severity:
Level 1: You feel the knee pain and the pain keeps coming.
Level 2: The knee pain starts to affect the normal function and activities in your leg, such as squatting, stair climbing, and limited walking.
Level 3: Knee starts to dysfunction after the joint, bone, and cartilage degenerating.
Great Attention Needed for Your Knee Pain
Many underlying health problems show in your knees.
Knee pain, as well as swelling, arthritis, and other knee symptoms, reveals many underlying problems that possibly related to the kidneys, heart, spleen, liver, bladder, gallbladder, stomach, etc.
Two people may both have knee pain, but they may have different organ and health issues. You need to identify the health problems to get rid of knee pain. I typically transfer energy to my clients’ bodies to detect their problems while Traditional Chinese Doctors diagnose you with your tongue and pulses. Without knowing the original cause, you cannot get rid of your knee problems. Take the time and make the effort to learn the underlying problems.
Knee pain can have strong negative effects on life and daily activities
Knee pain is something that afflicts millions of people every single day. It can wreak havoc on your overall quality of life. Persistent knee pain without care can restrict movement, affect muscle control, reduce strength, prevent mobility, lead to disability and bedridden. The treatments from Modern western medicine such as exercise, ointments, and heat and cold therapy for the knees, supplements, weight loss programs, pain killers, knee joint effusions, and surgeries, may temporarily release you from pain and swollen symptoms. but they do not cure the problem and many of them potentially create more problems. We are going to discuss these treatments in more detail in the following posts.
Therefore, don’t ignore your knee pain, learn how your health problems create the pain, and heal the underlying problems before the problems become an illness that leads to disability or the unnecessary sufferings of surgeries.
Check out my other posts on knee pain and the Total Life Energy Plan for complete health and healing.
* Nguyen US, Zhang Y, Zhu Y, Niu J, Zhang B, Felson DT. Increasing prevalence of knee pain and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: survey and cohort data. Ann Intern Med. 2011;155(11):725-732.
* Baker P, Reading I, Cooper C, Coggon D. Knee disorders in the general population and their relation to occupation. Occup Environ Med. 2003;60(10):794-797.)