Why crunch knees? How to save the largest joints of the body!

Crunching the knees - a phenomenon well-known to many adults. Also with them are regularly faced by professional athletes and employees of industrial enterprises. Why there is a crunch in your lap, if this is normal and can I get rid of it? Answers to these questions and other related questions can be found in our material.
General description:  
A healthy knee joint shall make crunch, delivering pain or discomfort, both at rest and in motion. So, to answer one of the questions above, we can say with confidence: the crunch and pain in the knees - a deviation from the norm. If the knee joint during movement began to publish a crunch, then there is a problem with the cartilage, or rather - it is either the beginning razvolakivatsya or even collapse. Ignoring this deviation will eventually only aggravate the situation, up to the total loss of joint mobility.

Conclusion: if you notice something like that at home, as soon as possible, see a doctor and go to the survey. Timely diagnosis of the disease will give a good chance of a full recovery and significantly reduce the likelihood of disability in the future. Causes The most common cause of a crunch in the knees - regular excessive load on the knee joint. By the way, to such pressures can be attributed even banal homework, as evidenced by a mass of reported cases of fracture of the knee housewives. The second most common reason, strange as it may sound, is inactive and sedentary lifestyle, resulting in a risk zone fall programmers, office workers, gamers, etc. Very often in the knees crunch seen in people who are overweight. According to various scientific studies, only 1 kilogram of excess weight increases the load on every inch of the articular surface by 10 percent. Thus, the seemingly insignificant 10 extra pounds increase this load exactly twice. And if we add the job at work or in front of a sedentary lifestyle, the knee joint begins to wear 3-5 times faster. Again - it's only at 10 extra pounds. Now imagine what happens in people with 30-50 pounds overweight. Crunching the knee in flexion and extension may appear as a result of wearing uncomfortable shoes. As you may have guessed, especially here refers to women's shoes with heels.  

Treatment  
Before you try to solve this problem, you must understand and acknowledge that crunch in your lap - it is a disease, and treatment of each disease, as it is known, begins with a diagnosis. Therefore, the first thing you need to see a doctor, that he revealed the true reason for the rejection. After performing diagnostics qualified physician will determine for you the best course of treatment and will monitor its progress. Can immediately reassuring: in most cases the crunch in the knees treated using conservative methods: medication, vitamin therapy, physiotherapy, etc. Surgery in such cases rarely appointed.