Symptoms
Knee pain: Symptom
Definition
Causes
When to see a doctor
Causes
Knee pain causes include:
- ACL injury (tearing of the anterior cruciate ligament in your knee)
- Avascular necrosis (death of bone tissue due to limited blood flow)
- Baker's cyst
- Broken leg
- Collateral ligament injury
- Dislocation
- Gout (arthritis related to excess uric acid)
- Iliotibial band syndrome
- Knee bursitis (inflammation of fluid-filled sacs in the knee joint)
- Lupus
- Medial collateral ligament injury
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Osteoarthritis (disease causing the breakdown of joints)
- Osteochondritis dissecans
- Osteomyelitis (a bone infection)
- Patellar tendinitis
- Patellofemoral pain syndrome
- Posterior cruciate ligament injury
- Pseudogout
- Referred pain from hip area
- Septic arthritis
- Sprains
- Tendinitis
- Torn meniscus