Pain, edema, hardness and inflexibility below the knee.

Hello, pain, edema and hardness below the knee. Your condition should consider synovitis of the knee joint. Synovitis occurs in various knee joint injuries or secondary to knee osteoarthritis.

It is recommended to go to the hospital to take a knee joint film and do a routine examination of knee joint effusion. The treatment should first rest in bed, raise the affected limb, compress and wrap it with elastic bandage, and it is forbidden to bear weight. Exercising the relaxation and contraction function of quadriceps femoris and raising the straight leg can promote blood circulation and facilitate the absorption of joint effusion. External application therapy can be used, and traditional Chinese medicine can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, relax tendons and activate collaterals, diminish inflammation and relieve pain. When there are many joint effusion and high tension, joint puncture can be performed to completely drain the effusion and hematocele, and sodium hyaluronate can be injected into the joint cavity.