In the context of knee pain, medical history plays an integral part in evaluating your levels of activity, age, previous health conditions, and recent trauma that could be causing your symptoms.
For instance, you may have a history of arthritis in yourself or a member of your family. You could also have a previous knee injury that has been causing anterior thigh pain recently. Or maybe you live a sedentary lifestyle and sit for very long periods, which may predispose you to sciatica pain.
As you can see from the list above, some questions a doctor asks to fill out a medical history may not be directly related to thigh pain. But they provide clues about your risk factors that will be very helpful in ruling out diseases by frequency.
In this step, it is also essential to answer questions as accurately as possible to describe your symptoms. For example:
- On a scale from 1 to 10, how severe is your pain?
- How often do you feel thigh pain, and what usually starts the symptoms?
- Have you tried anything that successfully improves your symptoms?
- Where is the pain located?
- Does it move around, or is it always located in the same spot?
- Is it a dull pain that is difficult to describe or a sharp and piercing pain easy to pinpoint?