Sunny
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I'm a bit confused. The last couple of years when doing more physical activities I've had to give them up because one of my knees swells and becomes painful, especially lateral movement. Happened again last week, but this time I don't want to give up the activity so I go to the doctor.
He manipulates my leg, says my knee is strong, but that as we age we get pockets of cartiledge that erodes away. During activity the body can create fluid to lubricate where the bone is rubbing because of this, hence swelling, pain, etc.
The problem I have with this is it sounds like he is describing arthritis and he mentioned arthritis at least once. When I google arthritis I find the top symptoms include stiffness, especially after rest or in the morning.
Well, I don't have stiffness, and my knee feels best when I first wake up!!!
I wish I would have known this before going so I could have asked him about it, but those of you with cartiledge missing or arthritis....was stiffness and/or worse in the morning always there?
He manipulates my leg, says my knee is strong, but that as we age we get pockets of cartiledge that erodes away. During activity the body can create fluid to lubricate where the bone is rubbing because of this, hence swelling, pain, etc.
The problem I have with this is it sounds like he is describing arthritis and he mentioned arthritis at least once. When I google arthritis I find the top symptoms include stiffness, especially after rest or in the morning.
Well, I don't have stiffness, and my knee feels best when I first wake up!!!
I wish I would have known this before going so I could have asked him about it, but those of you with cartiledge missing or arthritis....was stiffness and/or worse in the morning always there?