Using Tramadol for knee damage pain relief | Travel and Leisure

As well as allowing humans the freedom to live independently by enabling climbing, walking, standing and running, when it works properly, the knee is also the body?s largest joint. It connects the longest bones in the body, creating a pivot point of amazing reach and flexibility. The meniscus acts as a stabilizer, allowing for both tension and torsion, holding the upper and lower bones together. The meniscus prevents degradation of the bones by reducing friction during movement or weight bearing exercises. The patella is a strain relief transferring work and strength from the larger thigh muscles to the muscles of the lower leg.

The knees are essential to our independence and mobility. Because they are used every day, they are subject to over use and injury.

Common injuries to ones knees for wear and tear include:

• Patella tendinitis : caused by repetitive trauma and over flexion
• Bursitis: over use and chronic irritation causes swelling of the bursa. Housemaid?s knee is a bulbous inflammation over the patella.
• Misalignment of the Patella: caused by acute or repetitive trauma
• ACL (anterior Cruciate Ligament): tears or damage caused generally from running.
• Meniscal Tears: result of twisting injury

You should always seek medical advice to find a cause if you are experiencing soreness, swelling or loss of mobility and strength in either one or both of your knees. Inflamed or sore knees absent of injury are often the first sign of autoimmune problems or rheumatic diseases like arthritis, infectious arthritis (like Lyme?s disease), spondylitis, and gout.

Whether knee pain is the result of injury or a disease, there are treatments available to ease the pain and increase mobility. Doctors prescribe Tramadol to treat both acute and chronic pain, and post operative pain. It does not reduce swelling or cure disease or injury. It is a pain blocker allowing you to work through any therapy prescribed for rehabilitation after an injury. It also allows you to get past the pain in the case of disease, allowing for easier movement and greater independence. It helps you maintain a quality of life that you could not achieve when suffering from the pain.

There is a variety of strengths and modalities for tramadol prescriptions allowing you to treat moderate to severe pain according to you pain thresholds. Ultram ER, is an extended release formulation designed to give relief for 24 hours so you do not need go through rising and falling degrees of pain throughout the day.

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