Temporary knee pain is different from chronic knee pain. Many people experience temporary knee pain as a result of an injury or accident. Chronic knee pain rarely goes away without treatment, and it ...

Knee pain is the most common musculoskeletal complaint that brings people to the doctor. It affects about 25% of U.S. adults. Several different things can lead to knee pain, and the treatments for it ...

New guidelines may be in order for evaluating and treating lower extremity pain. Investigators set out to determine if there was a relation between foot pain and lower extremity joint pain, and they ...

Common causes of pain above your knee include quadricep or hamstring tendonitis, arthritis, and knee bursitis. Your knee is the largest joint in your body, formed where your femur and tibia meet.

Expensive and time-consuming magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is often unnecessary to diagnose the cause of knee pain in patients age 40 years or older, according to a study published in the September ...

Internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, solves the case of Ravi, a 47-year-old man presenting to the emergency department with knee pain. Following is a partial transcript ...

When my right knee ballooned to twice its normal size in the summer of 2016, I didn’t know it yet, but it would start an eight-year medical mystery no one could solve. It began as a dull ache, then ...

Knee popping is often harmless and may occur when a person exercises. However, when it occurs alongside pain, it may be a sign of an underlying problem, such as arthritis or a knee injury. With a knee ...

If you’re an athlete who does an activity with a lot of jumping involved, or if you have a child or teen who plays such a sport, you may one day find yourself with jumper’s knee. In the medical world, ...

Many people have knee pain during some phase of their life. For children, it usually occurs during growth as the body is getting used to its new size. For teenagers and young adults, knee pain usually ...