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Knee Osteoarthritis Management
- See Also
- Management: General Measures
- Lower Extremity Strengthening Exercises
- Educate patient regarding importance of Exercise
- Exercise knees 20-30 minutes per day
- Physical Therapy to teach low extremity strength
- Quadriceps strengthening
- Gait training
- Active range of motion of hip, knee, and ankle
- Instruction in use of cane
- Graded elastic band use
- Pool Therapy
- Re-Evaluate after 4-6 weeks
- Modestly effective in reducing Knee Pain
- Unloader knee brace (valgus) for medial Knee DJD
- Lateral 5 degree heel wedge for medial knee arthritis
- Knee taping
- Upper tape for medial/AP tilt and medial glide
- Lower tape to protect pes anserine bursa
- Hinman (2003) BMJ 327:135
- Progressive Walking Program
- Reevaluate monthly over 3-6 months
- Adjust prior activities
- Avoid high knee impact activities
- Running
- Stair Climbing
- Avoid prolonged standing, kneeling, or squatting
- Consider Biking, Swimming
- Avoid high knee impact activities
- Lower Extremity Strengthening Exercises
- Management: Analgesia
- Local Cold Therapy
- Local Heat Therapy
- Acetaminophen 1000 mg PO tid-qid prn (<4 grams/day)
- Cautious use of NSAIDS in the elderly
- COX2 Inhibitors offer no benefit over standard NSAIDs
- Sodium hyaluronate or Hyaluronic acid (Synvisc)
- Variable study results
- Study supporting use
- Intra-articular viscosupplementation
- Effectively decreases pain and increases function
- Petrella (2002) Arch Intern Med 162:292
- Studies suggesting minimal to no benefit
- Intra-articular Corticosteroid
- Offers short-term relief
- Reserve for special occasion (e.g. pre-vacation)
- Depot glucocorticoid (triamcinolone hexacetonide)
- For persistent pain not relieved with above
- Avoid more than 3 times per year
- Offers short-term relief
- Glucosamine Sulfate and Chondroitin sulfate
- Some studies suggest as effective as NSAIDs
- Management: Chronic Unrelenting Pain
- Topical Capsaicin Creams
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
- Local massage
- Acupuncture
- Decreases pain scores by 40% and improves function
- Berman (2004) Ann Intern Med 141:901
- Amitriptyline (Elavil)
- Pain management counseling and support groups
- Management: Assistive Devices
- Physical Therapy
- Unloader knee brace (valgus) for medial Knee DJD
- Knee sleeve
- Cane
- Walker
- Occupational Therapy home visit
- Bath benches
- Raised toilet seat
- Grab bars
- Object reachers
- Physical Therapy
- Management: Surgery
- Arthroscopy
- Total Knee Replacement
- References
Osteoarthritis, Knee (C0409959) | |
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| Definition (MSH) | Noninflammatory degenerative disease of the knee joint consisting of three large categories: conditions that block normal synchronous movement, conditions that produce abnormal pathways of motion, and conditions that cause stress concentration resulting in changes to articular cartilage. (Crenshaw, Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, 8th ed, p2019) |
| Concepts | Disease or Syndrome (T047) |
| MSH | D020370 |
| Basque | GONARTROSIA |
| Danish | Knaeledsartrose |
| Dutch | Gonarthrosis |
| English | Degenerative joint disease of knee, Knee DJD, Knee Osteoarthritides, Knee Osteoarthritis, OA - Osteoarthritis of knee, Osteoarthritis of knee |
| Finnish | POLVEN KULUMA |
| French | Gonarthrose |
| German | Gonarthrose |
| Hebrew | ostioartritis shel haberex |
| Hungarian | terdizuleti arthrosis |
| Italian | Osteoartrosi del ginocchio |
| Norwegian | KNELEDDSARTROSE |
| Portuguese | Osteoartrose do joelho |
| Spanish | artrosis de la rodilla, Artrosis de rodilla, artrosis rotuliana |
| Swedish | KNALEDSARTROS |
| Parent Concepts | Musculoskeletal (C0497254), Diagnosis/Diseases Component (C0497531), Degenerative polyarthritis (C0029408), Arthropathies NOS (C0022408), Osteoarthritis, Knee (C0409959), Knee joint finding (C0576085), Disorder of knee (C1290879), Duplicate concept (C1274013) |
| Sources | ICPC, ICPCBAQ, ICPCDAN, ICPCDUT, ICPCFIN, ICPCFRE, ICPCGER, ICPCHEB, ICPCHUN, ICPCITA, ICPCNOR, ICPCPOR, ICPCSPA, ICPCSWE, MSH, MTH, NDFRT, OMIM, SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) |
