If you want to know more about the general effects of acupuncture, please see here. In this section, I mention the cause of pain in the knee and how to treat by acupuncture.

 

When you have a pain in your knee, the most common diagnosis are below

 

Lateral collateral ligament injury, Medial collateral ligament injury, Anterior cruciate ligament injury, Posterior cruciate ligament injury, Patellar ligament injury, Patella dislocation, fracture, Tear of a meniscus, osteochondritis dissecans, osteoarthritis, knee ligament inflammation, jumper knee, Osgood-Schlatter disease, Derangement of Knee Joint, bursitis, and Inflammation of Infrapatellar fat pad.

 

It is not possible to fix the root cause of ligament damage, meniscus, joint bone, cartilage deformation, etc. by acupuncture. For those diseases, the doctor's treatment is the first choice. However, the pain may remain after the series of treatment by doctors or rehabilitation by physio is completed. That is because the muscles around foot reacted sensitive and get stiff, that will lead the nerves around them squeezed by the stiffness of the muscles. By massaging and acupuncture, the tension of the muscle and fascia get released and lighten the burden on the nerves that are causing the pain.

In the treatment, I will find the cause of the pain by examining carefully.