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Acute Knee Pain
Aka: Acute Knee Pain, Knee Pain- See Also
- Precautions: Pitfalls
- Consider referred pain (Neuropathy or radiculopathy)
- Consider malignancy
- Causes: Adult Knee Pain by frequency
- Most common causes of Acute Knee Pain
- Knee Osteoarthritis (most common)
- Medial Meniscus Injury
- Lateral Meniscus Injury
- Medial lateral collateral ligament injury
- Lateral collateral ligament injury
- Anterior cruciate ligament rupture (ACL rupture)
- Posterior cruciate ligament rupture (PCL rupture)
- Acute Gouty Arthritis
- Fracture
- Rare causes of Acute Knee Pain
- Most common causes of Acute Knee Pain
- Causes: Pain by location
- Anterior Knee Pain
- Posterior Knee Pain
- Medial Knee Pain
- Lateral Knee Pain
- Causes: Pain by age
- See Knee Injury Acute History for injury related causes
- Children
- Osteochondritis Dissecans
- Osgood Schlatter
- Jumper's Knee
- Patellar Subluxation
- Young Adults
- Older Adults
- Evaluation
- Imaging: Xray indications
- See Ottawa Knee Rules
- Evaluate for Fracture or Osteoarthritis
- References