Knee Pain, one of the most common health issue you may found today in almost every household. There are several cause for knee pain, might be old injury or overweight, or osteoarthritis, a sprain or any other cause.

The knee pain are not so easy to let go, they are sometimes severe, that creates a hindrance in carrying out your daily activities. They create problem in walking, they create problem when bending, they create problem while sitting and so on.

Most of the knee pain is due to physical exertion or due to lack of essential nutrients in our body like Vitamin D, calcium, and iron, along with age-related wear and tear of muscles and tissues. Well, doctors say if the knee pain is due to some accidental injury and still persists after two long days, its clear that you knee pain needs medical attention.

However, in the meantime here are some home treatments that relieve pain, swelling, stiffness in the case of injuries.

Home Remedies To Treat Knee Pain Due To Injuries…

Ample Amount Of Rest! 

There is no alternative to this home remedy to soothe your knee pain. When you give rest to your knee after an injury it helps in many ways. So how to give ample rest? Just do the following:

• Protect the injured or painful area by wrapping it with crepe bandage.
• Stop or change the activity that is causing pain.
• Take rest and don't use the painful knee if possible.
• Keep a small pillow under the injured knee to support it.

Ice Packs! 

One another way to soothe your knee pain, get an icepack ready and apply it over the painful area for two to three times a day. It will help reduce the swelling and help soothe the pain.

Avoid Intake of Alcohol or beverages! 

Avoid hot showers, hot tubs, hot packs, or alcoholic beverages for the first 48 hours after a knee injury. If you take such thing there are chances that the pain might increase leading to more discomforts.

Important Things To Keep In Mind! 

While you wrap up the painful area that is your knee with bandage:

• Make sure that the bandage is not wrapped up too tightly as it can cause the area above or below the wrappings to swell.
• Tight elastic bandages cause numbness, tingling, increased pain, coolness, or swelling in the area below.
• The elastic bandage is not meant to protect or stabilize a knee injury, only to alleviate the swelling.
• Remember elastic bandage help decrease the swelling, so wrap it around the knee, neither too loose nor too tightly.

Home Remedies To Treat Old Injuries And Age-Related Knee Pain…

Ginger

The anti-inflammatory compounds in ginger help reduce swelling on the knee along with the pain. Brew ginger in hot water, with a little honey & lemon. Drink 2- 3 cups a day until the pain eases.

• Grate 1 - inch Ginger piece & boil for 10 minutes in 1 cup water.
• Strain the decoction & add a little honey & lemon before drinking.

Turmeric

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) says this root may slow the progression of rheumatoid arthritis, one of the main causes of knee pain. Curcumin, an anti-inflammatory chemical found in Turmeric, also has anti-oxidant properties.

• Boil a half teaspoon each of ground ginger and turmeric to a cup of water for 10 minutes.
• Strain, add honey to taste and drink this 'tea' twice a day.
• Boil a teaspoon of turmeric powder in a glass of milk, add honey to sweeten the brew and drink once a day.

Caution: Turmeric has blood-thinning properties; people on blood-thinner medication are advised not to take this remedy regularly.

Lemon

Are you wondering why lemons or lemon juice was an ingredient in the home remedies that we've mentioned above? That's because lemon is a low-cost remedy for arthritic pain. The citric acid in lemons and limes dissolves uric acid crystals, which causes some types of arthritis.

• Cut one or two lemons into quarters.
• Bundle the pieces in a cotton cloth and dip them in warm sesame oil.
• Place the cloth on the painful knee for 5 - 10 minutes.
• Do this twice a day until the knee pain disappears.

Yoga Asanas

Yoga, basically a form of exercise popular in India from Vedic times in highly effective in a number of health issues and so is effective on joint pain in the knees. In instances of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, doctors advise avoiding very vigorous training routines and recommend strengthening yoga postures which are low to moderate-intensity workouts.

Some of the yoga asanas namely Trikonasana, Veerabhadrasana, Vrikshasana entail just basic, simple standing, stretching, and bending motions and can be performed daily in the morning for 15 – 20 minutes. These exercises rejuvenates the spine, knee, thigh, hip, and leg muscles, enhances the blood flow to the joints. Practicing these yoga asanas not only help sooth knee pain due to injuries but also the knee pain caused due to arthritis.

Let Us Sum Up! 

These home remedies are highly effective in decreasing the swelling of your injured knee and soothe out the pain. However, severe knee pain that disrupts your ability to move around needs to be examined by a doctor at the earliest. So, I would advise if the intensity of your knee pain is increasing and the selling don’t go down, without wasting your time consult a medical professional immediately.

Stay Informed! Stay Safe! 

Thank you!