Knee bruise

The bruise of a knee is an artful injury as most of people are inclined to belong to it scornfully. Meanwhile, effects of a bruise of a knee can be rather serious. The person can even cease to go or all life to suffer from severe joint pains therefore you should not neglect everything.

Unfortunately, still nobody thought up prevention of bruises. But it is possible to warn unpleasant effects of a bruise of a knee, having timely asked for the help the doctor.

Reasons and symptoms of a bruise of a knee

At children the knee bruise quite often occurs in a type of excessive activity. As a rule, the injury results from falling on one knee or when the person strongly hits a knee against any subject. Sometimes, that the knee joint is damaged even after ordinary jog.

Many fell in the winter in the period of ice. Most often from such falling elbow and knee joints are damaged. Quite often the bruise of a knee can arise at an excessive deviation of a shin aside. However the similar bruise often is followed also by a rupture of sheaves. As a rule, it is quite widespread injury among the people playing sports (soccer, acrobatics, etc.).

The very first symptom of a bruise of a knee is emergence of sharp pain in the field of a bruise which can sometimes become very strong. The swelling in a knee and specific discoloration of skin (hematoma) is observed. Such symptom of a bruise of a knee as a swelling is the consequence of formation of hemorrhage in a joint (hemarthrosis) resulting from its damage. The victim cannot freely move at the same time the injured extremity as at the slightest movement feels severe pain. Owing to a severe bruise of a knee because of painful shock there can sometimes be even a loss of consciousness.

First-aid treatment at a knee bruise

The victim of a bruise of a knee needs first-aid treatment which consists in the following:

• Ensuring the maximum protection of an affected joint, total absence of loads of a sore extremity.
• Use of cold procedures which cause a vasospasm that significantly reduces the scale of an internal hemorrhage. It is very important to stop increase of a hemarthrosis as the hematoma squeezes the terminations of nerves and causes strong pain at the victim.
• To call the ambulance, and before arrival of physicians it is necessary to raise the hurt leg as above with the purpose to reduce blood inflow is possible.

Competently given first aid significantly influences further efficiency of treatment and is excellent prevention from undesirable effects of a bruise of a knee.

Treatment of a bruise of a knee

Any injury of a knee demands adequate treatment. If at the victim the expressed pain is observed, then the doctor makes anesthesia by means of various medicamentous drugs. As a rule, treatment of a bruise of a knee assumes use of antiinflammatory nonsteroid drugs, such as Ketanov, Analginum, Diclofenac, etc.

The good effect in healing of a bruise can render bruises ointment. To lower pain and to remove hypostasis, the doctor can appoint to the patient a puncture of a knee joint with the purpose to suck away the accumulated blood. After that apply a retentive bandage which limits the excess movements and keeps the damaged area in constant heat the hurt place.

In the first days after an injury the patient is recommended not to make sharp movements, and to keep the maximum rest that the knee joint could be recovered quicker. As a rule, at a knee bruise rehabilitation quite long as completely it is not possible to immobilize a sore knee. During rehabilitation it is important to patient to observe medical and physiotherapeutic procedures. Perfectly at this stage various ointments as a part of which there are analgetic and antiinflammatory substances help: Lioton, Fastum gel, Artroaktiv, etc. Quite often for bystry healing of a bruise of a knee use hondroprotektorny medicines, such as cream or gel Collagen Ultra.

Also traditional medicine can give good help in treatment of a knee joint. It is possible to use ointment on the basis of pork fat with addition of leaves of a plantain or ointment on the basis of a sabelnik. As a rule, that the knee joint was completely recovered, 3-4 weeks are necessary. In more hard cases recovery term significantly increases.