The Causes of Knee Pain?

One of the most common pains experienced by people all over the world is knee pain.  When the ligaments, surrounding cartilage and bones are adversely, knee pain is the ultimate result. Knee joints are essentially built up of tendons, which are fibres of tissue that join bones to muscles, and ligaments, which join bones to bones. A knee pain occurs primarily and very commonly due to knee injuries. Conditions like arthritis and osteoarthritis have knee pain as their chief symptom, as they involve damage to the joints in the body. Knees have solid cartilage, also called, menisci. Injuries severely affecting the knees often end up in cartilage tears, or menisci tears, which might also occur due to old age. This is also one very common cause of knee pain. Furthermore, these tears can also lead to conditions like Baker’s cyst (swelling around knee joints) and many more, which may aggravate or cause more knee pain. Ligament injuries like Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) Injury also result into a great deal of knee pain. Some of the rarely diagnosed causes of knee pain could be Plica syndrome or gout. Overused or overloaded knees, Runners knee, or even very common factors like stress can become a cause of knee pain.