Conclusion

There are different treatment approaches for knee pain, and they depend on your diagnosis. Thus, you first need to be sure about what’s causing your symptoms by talking to a doctor and letting them guide you through the treatment.

Among the conservative medical treatments for knee pain, we can include rest and physical therapy, anti-inflammatory drugs, topical painkillers, corticosteroid injections, and hyaluronic acid injections. When conservative measures are not enough to relieve the symptoms, doctors will also consider surgery, including arthroscopic surgery, open surgery, and knee replacement surgery.

In this article, we have reviewed all of these medical treatments, and we have also devoted another piece to describing the most important home treatment measures you can take to speed up the recovery process. Remember that a doctor should guide all treatments, especially if you’re experiencing recurrent or very severe knee pain.

References:

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2015/1115/p875.html