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What Causes Sudden Pain In Knee?
My wife had sudden spontaneous pain in right knee especially during getting downstairs ,stair were not typical ones but more more horizontally oriented we thought could be prolapsed disc as the local orthopeadic doctor suggested but MRI came normal and clinically also no abnormality was found but she had the same pain when getting downstairs second time is there anything that we are missing
Mon, 20 Jul 2015
Hi there.
Pain in the knee could be due to low Vitamin D and Calcium level, Osteoporosis. She needs to get evaluated for the same. Avoid climbing stairs, squatting, cross leg sitting, kneeling. Cold soaks will help with the pain. Weight loss if obese is a must combined with healthy eating.
Pain in the knee could be due to low Vitamin D and Calcium level, Osteoporosis. She needs to get evaluated for the same. Avoid climbing stairs, squatting, cross leg sitting, kneeling. Cold soaks will help with the pain. Weight loss if obese is a must combined with healthy eating.
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