Treatment of bursitis of the knee joint

The chronic or acute form of the inflammatory process in the periarticular synovial bag located in the knee joint is called bursitis.

During the progression of the pathology, the lubricating fluid that synovial cells produce, in connection with the inflammation, changes its composition.

As a result, movements cause pain in the joint, and proper treatment helps to relieve inflammation and resume normal motor activity.

What is knee joint bursitis

Bursitis of the knee joint is a disease, the development of which inflames the synovial bag - this is the pocket joint of small volume, filled with fluid and located in those places where tendon joints pass and muscles.

Near the knee joints there are three synovial bags, each of which can be affected by this disease. The disease is classified according to the type of synovial bag:

Supapatrental form - in another way poplite, as it affects the popliteal articular bag. More often the disease occurs after a trauma of the tendons under the knee.

Baker's cyst is the knee bursitis of the knee joint, affecting the inner lower part of the knee. Usually, pathology is diagnosed in people with excess body weight.

Prepatellar - occurs more often than other types of pathology and affects the synovial knee bag after injury or damage to the calyx.

Etiology and specific causes of the disease

Main reasons:

• injuries;
• great burden on knee joints;
• infections affecting the synovial knee bag.

In addition to the described causes, the disease can develop due to inflammatory processes, such as arthritis or gout. Autoimmune diseases, allergies also have a negative effect on joint health.

Characteristics of symptoms of defeat

The main symptoms depend on the localization of the lesion. With superficial lesions, a mobile tumor-like and painful neoplasm with a pronounced border is formed under the skin. The skin in this place strongly reddens and heats up, and the degree of manifestation of these signs will vary according to the contents of the synovial bag.

Purulent type of bursitis is characterized by a sharp inflammation in the knee joint and pronounced signs - a strong reddening and heating of the injury site, sharp pains.

If in the articular bag the deposition of salts occurs or the process is characterized by other fibrotic disorders, then dense neoplasms with blurred boundaries are felt.

With the development of superficial bursitis, symptoms and treatment are inextricably linked.

It becomes more difficult to identify the disease with deep damage, then a diagnosis can only be made by a professional, since the symptomatology of compression of muscles and tendons can only indirectly indicate a large depth of the outbreak disease.

Inflammatory bursitis of the knee, chronic or acute, takes the leading place in the frequency of injury, because the synovial pouch under the knee connects with the joint cavity. In this regard, in medical practice, it is often possible to encounter simultaneous joint damage with arthritis and bursitis, which complicates the diagnosis.

Tips and methods of treatment of pathology

Before you begin treatment of the knee, it is important to identify the site of damage to the synovial bag. Pressing the bandage will significantly ease the condition and stop pain during an attack.

To the general recommendations, experts include:

1. During an exacerbation, the patient will need complete rest.
2. To limit the flow of blood, remove swelling and reduce pain in the inflamed limb, you need to give the limbs to take a lofty position, and then apply a pressure bandage.
3. Inflammation recedes, if several times a day to apply to the hearth lesions compress the ice. This approach is effective for the therapy of aseptic form. Ice should first be wrapped in a towel and held in place of the inflammation for 20 minutes. This will help remove swelling of the knee with inflammation of bursitis.
4. With severe intolerable pain, the administration of anti-inflammatory drugs of non-steroidal origin and pain medications is prescribed. These medicines do not require a doctor's prescription.
5. After the manifestations decrease, doctors advise to start the implementation of warming compresses.
6. External treatment with ointments consists in the use of drugs with NSAIDs, such as diclofenac, anatogs, fastum gel, etc. They warm and quickly soothe the pain.

At times, to answer the question, how to treat bursitis in one or another situation, it will be necessary to perform synovial puncture, thanks which can study the composition of the pathological fluid, establish the presence of microbes in it, as well as its sensitivity to various drugs.

In the absence of the effect of conservative treatment, surgical intervention is appointed - this is a puncture of the articular bag and excretion of exudate from it. Then the bursal cavity is thoroughly washed with an antiseptic solution. Antibiotic medicines for treatment can be injected through the muscles or topically.

Folk remedies for bursitis knee

Treatment with folk remedies is very effective at the first stages of the disease. The most popular recipes are:

1. Tea made from celery - well resists inflammation in the human body. This is very important, because the causes of pathology are often infections, colds, etc. For preparation therapeutic tea should take one tablespoon of plant seeds, then pour a glass of boiling water and leave to stand, - 2 hours. The broth is recommended to be consumed twice a day.
2. Grapefruit juice well resists infections, but you can not drink it in excess of half the glass at a time.
3. Compresses made with the addition of fresh herbs will help. For hot compresses, you need to sew a canvas bag into which the boiled grass is placed. Procedures must be repeated until the tumor begins to subside,
4. In various publications devoted to health, many write about how to cure knee bursitis with burdock. The recipe is: prepare a compress of their fresh plant leaves with the addition of celandine. The mixture should be placed on a diseased knee, covering it with a packet or a warm kerchief.

Treating bursitis is an important process that can not be delayed to prevent complications, but exudate removal operations are not always as effective as possible.

It is best to visit a specialist even at the first symptoms of defeat pathology, preventing active progression and the emergence of bilateral bursitis of the knee joint.