“What is the best treatment for knee bursitis?”
I have knee bursitis and want to fix it. What is the best treatment for knee bursitis?
2 Answers
Hello and good day. Thanks for sharing your knee bursitis treatment question with the FATD community. Please allow me to offer my thoughts, tips, and suggestions regarding this matter.
There are essentially three bursal sacks around the knee (these are fluid-filled bags around pressure points in joints, in order to diminish friction and permit the easy moving of soft tissue structures over each other or over boney prominences). Knowing which is painfully inflamed (the ‘itis’ at the end of the word signifies a painful condition) would be helpful, but the treatment is about the same in each. The goal is to diminish the inflammation around the bursa, but then also to figure out and fix whatever is making the bursa inflamed. Sometimes it gets inflamed after a trauma, and other times it is part of the aging process.
The treatment is similar to any inflammatory flare-up. I find that this link is quite helpful:
https://www.pop-doc.com/joint-preactive.html
The process may take 2-4 weeks to subside. If it does not subside, there may be soft tissue that is irritating the area and therefore needs to be cleaned out (depending on which bursa you are referring to, this can be an arthroscopic surgery or open procedure). I find that usually bursitis resolves on its own (but following the PROACTIVE steps can help it resolve quicker). I hope this helps and that you feel better soon.
There are essentially three bursal sacks around the knee (these are fluid-filled bags around pressure points in joints, in order to diminish friction and permit the easy moving of soft tissue structures over each other or over boney prominences). Knowing which is painfully inflamed (the ‘itis’ at the end of the word signifies a painful condition) would be helpful, but the treatment is about the same in each. The goal is to diminish the inflammation around the bursa, but then also to figure out and fix whatever is making the bursa inflamed. Sometimes it gets inflamed after a trauma, and other times it is part of the aging process.
The treatment is similar to any inflammatory flare-up. I find that this link is quite helpful:
https://www.pop-doc.com/joint-preactive.html
The process may take 2-4 weeks to subside. If it does not subside, there may be soft tissue that is irritating the area and therefore needs to be cleaned out (depending on which bursa you are referring to, this can be an arthroscopic surgery or open procedure). I find that usually bursitis resolves on its own (but following the PROACTIVE steps can help it resolve quicker). I hope this helps and that you feel better soon.
The most important aspect of treatment is first diagnosing what is causing the bursitis. Usually, bursitis is secondary to another injury.
