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What are the treatment methods for knee pain?

 Treatment for knee pain includes both surgical and non-surgical procedures which aim to improve the strength and function of joints by controlling the symptoms and avoid further joint damage. 





  1. Home treatment such as RICE Formula (Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation) focus on limiting the activities that may aggravate the symptoms.

  2. Activity modification such as reducing activities like knee bending and climbing stairs may help in preventing the condition from getting worse. 

  3. Physicians may recommend physical therapy, muscle strengthening exercises, or using assistive devices like canes to get relief from knee pain.

  4. Medications such as analgesics aim to reduce the pain, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) helps in reducing pain and inflammation. But its consumption for a long time leads to potential side effects including heart, gastrointestinal, and kidney problems.

  5. Administration of corticosteroid injections into the knee provides short-term relief for only 1-3 weeks by reducing inflammation, but they have systemic and local adverse side effects. 

  6. Surgical methods for knee pain treatment such as joint distraction, knee arthroscopy, knee osteotomy, knee bone spur surgery, meniscus surgery, and partial or total joint replacement. Your physician may recommend these options if non-surgical methods do not yield any improvement. However, it requires a prolonged duration of rehabilitation post-surgery to regain flexibility and strength.  

7. Benefits of regenerative therapy over conventional methods

Regenerative cell therapy is a non-surgical procedure that provides long-lasting relief from the symptoms with minimal downtime and enhances recovery within a short period. Since the injection involves your blood, there is also no chance of rejection or cross-transmission of disease.

 

A study published in NPJ Regenerative Medicine revealed that regenerative cell therapy might provide better pain relief compared to NSAIDs drugs and corticosteroid injections [1]. PRP therapy provides more long-term relief from joint pain. It enhances the quality of life in a shorter duration compared to corticosteroid injections. Long-term administration of cortisone injections will suppress the body's natural healing mechanism and leads to knee replacement surgery in the future. But PRP therapy repairs the injured tissue by naturally promoting your body's healing function. Hence, you may not need to undergo surgery in later stage [2]. Surgery may promote knee degeneration which leads to undergoing the same surgery once again in the future. Additionally, the incidence of pain after the surgery is high around 20%, in addition to anaesthesia and surgery associated risks. With the advent of PRP therapy, surgery can be easily avoided [3].

 

For more information about the natural regenerative cell treatment for knee pain, please feel free to refer to the website http://www.medicastemcells.com. At Medica Stem Cells Clinic in the UK, we use platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy, prolotherapy, mesenchymal cell therapy combined with other therapies to treat knee pains for more advanced results. To learn more about the Medica Stem Cell therapy in detail, contact Medica Stem Cells clinic in London on 020 8 168 2000 or Ireland clinic on 01 298 8000.

 

 

 

References

  1. Iijima, H., Isho, T., Kuroki, H., Takahashi, M., & Aoyama, T. (2018). Effectiveness of mesenchymal stem cells for treating patients with knee osteoarthritis: a meta-analysis toward the establishment of effective regenerative rehabilitation. NPJ Regenerative medicine, 3(1), 1-13.

  2. Forogh B, Mianehsaz E, Shoaee S, Ahadi T, Raissi GR, Sajadi S. Effect of single injection of Platelet-Rich Plasma in comparison with corticosteroid on knee osteoarthritis: a double-blind randomized clinical trial. J Sports Med Phys Fitness. 2015 Jul 14.

  3. Gautam Das, Debjyoti Dutta, et al (2019). Platelet-rich Plasma Injection in Osteoarthritis of the Knee? Journal on Recent Advances in Pain, 5(1): 1-15

 
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