As you grow older, your knees can be spoiled because of continuous higher weight gain without controlling your diets. In general, patients of knee inflammation are mostly farmers who have been working toughly in rural provinces, including urban people whose jobs require plenty of use of their knees, especially sportspersons.

Knee inflammation is partly caused by aging and can now be found in younger patients, some at the age of 27. Another cause of knee inflammation is being overweight, forcing your knees to bear the weight of many more kilograms than they should. In particular, those who were thin when they were young but a few times larger in their size when they grow older are likely to have a high risk of knee inflammation.

Depinding on the symptoms,the general treatment of knee inflammation is to prescribe analgesics, to suggest the patients to lose their weight, to advise them to do self physical therapy at home, and to examine their bodies every few weeks. From my own experience, the patients who only take analgesics without an exercise tend to have less pain in their knees only when the medicine takes effect and suffer from the pain again after that. However, the patients who strictly follow their doctors' suggestion to do self physical therapy will not only have less pain in their knees and need to use the medicine less frequently, but may also be able to give up the use of analgesics. As a result, the prevention and treatment of knee inflammation in a natural therapeutic way is recommended.

First, you should avoid spoiling your knees by being in such positions as squatting, sitting cross-legged and sitting with your legs flexed backwards for a long time. Next, you should reduce the amount of meat eaten in each meal because excessive consumption of meat will increase the amount of phosphorus in your body, arousing your parathyroid gland to release a hormone to draws calcium out of your bones to maintain the balance of your blood. Not only does the process make the bones thinner but the drawn calcium also gathers itself at the inflammatory joints. Constantly eating finely ground rice, moreover, can result in a lack of some vitamins that prevent knee inflammation.

Simple hydrotherapy

Apply a cold compress to hot and swollen knees for a few days.

Apply a hot compress to painful but not hot knees for three minutes and then a cold compress for two minutes. Do it a few times both in the morning and the afternoon to relieve the pain in your knees.

Herbal compress application is another good way to relieve the pain from knee inflammation because its warmth can improve blood circulation around your knees.

Self physical therapy

Sit comfortably on a chair with your legs perpendicular to the floor and straight back.

Raise your left leg up to be parallel to the floor. Tense it up while counting one to ten and place it down. This is counted as one round. Do the same with your right leg.

Raise and tense up your alternate legs for ten rounds at first and gradually increase to one hundred rounds. Your leg muscles will be strengthened and the pain in your knees will get better, since lack of exercise can make the muscles shrink and worsen the symptom. At the same time, keep in mind that you should not be overweight.

If the symptom does not improve, acupuncture and water exercise are also good treatments without the use of medicine.