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How To Treat Knee Pain Without Taking Anti-inflammatories?
my mom is taking mst 5mg twice a day along with 10ng crestor tablet , 75 mg asprinin ,a stemetil anti sickness tablet . she had major back surgery a year ago but the majority of the pain is an unexplained pain in her knees which starts at around 7 each nite and she needs the mst along with some parecetemol/ codine for breakthrough pain during the nite. the reason I am writing this e mail is because she has severe sickness and her pain specialist said it couldn t be the mst cause its such a low dose she cannot take anti immflamortories because of her kidneys and she has had patches they didn t work can u help me im at my wits end thankyou
Mon, 23 Feb 2015
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Thanks for writing in.
Knee pain can be treated in following ways without taking oral antiinflammatories.
1. Doing physiotherapy exercises under supervision at forst and then on her own.
2. Applying ointments containing combination of muscle relaxants and pain killers gently over painful areas twice a day.
3. Sprays are also available and give intermittent relief to knee pain.
4. Applying a heat pack over the knee might give relief for a while.
5. Using a knee cover can make her comfortably move around.
6. Opioid pain reliever and steroid injection might help control pain.
Thanks for writing in.
Knee pain can be treated in following ways without taking oral antiinflammatories.
1. Doing physiotherapy exercises under supervision at forst and then on her own.
2. Applying ointments containing combination of muscle relaxants and pain killers gently over painful areas twice a day.
3. Sprays are also available and give intermittent relief to knee pain.
4. Applying a heat pack over the knee might give relief for a while.
5. Using a knee cover can make her comfortably move around.
6. Opioid pain reliever and steroid injection might help control pain.
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