The doctors usually recommend one of these following treatments for treating knee pain:
Medications and pain killers
If a person is suffering from severe pain, then the doctor might prescribe stronger medications such as codeine as it is more potent than the other standard painkillers. The doctors will only prescribe codeine for a shorter duration as it has significantly more side effects than the others. In addition, the doctors tackle the knee pain with the combination of other treatments too along with the use of medications to subside the chronic pain. The strong painkillers help in relieving the pain and to also treat the actual cause of the knee pains such as gout, rheumatoid arthritis, or osteoarthritis. [2]