Losing Excess Weight
Excess weight plays a major role in causing knee pain. The additional weight that you carry around causes aching pain in your hips, knees, and back, thus resulting in extra strain on your joints. However, people with additional body weight suffer are most likely to suffer from arthritic knee pain. Losing excess body weight and fat lessen the impact on knee joints and consequently relieve knee pain. The research suggests that with the loss of every 10 pounds of body weight, there is about 20 percent loss of knee pain. By adding some flexibility and stretching exercises can help in significantly less knee pain. [3]