There are many painful conditions of the knee that may be caused by problems with your feet. The knee joint is one of the most complex joints in the body. It is a hinge joint, a sliding joint and a rotating joint all at the same time. The proper and pain-free functioning of the knee requires near perfect alignment of the bones, ligaments and tendons that make up the knee joint. Pain in the knee is usually an early warning sign that something is wrong with the alignment. It is important to address these problems early to avoid serious, lasting troubles such as severe arthritis.

The improper alignment that causes knee pain is often the result of improper alignment of the joints of the foot and ankle. Well then, i'll give some situations.

Pain on the inside part of the knee may be caused by bursitis at the location where three of the tendons from the thigh muscles (sartorius, gracilis and semitendinosus) come together and insert into the upper/inner part of the tibia (bone of the lower leg). This condition is generally known as Pes Anserine bursitis. Pes Anserine is Latin for "goose foot". I suppose it is called goose foot because these three tendons coming together look somewhat like a goose's foot. The pain is caused by inflammation of the bursa beneath these three tendons. A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that is found where tendons and ligaments rub against bone. The bursa is designed to prevent the bone from irritating and damaging these tendons and ligaments as the rub back and forth over the bone. When these bursa become inflamed this is known as bursitis. Pes anserine bursitis is inflammation of the bursa beneath the three tendons that form the goose foot. Pes Anserine bursitis can be caused by excessive pronation of the foot. The excessive pronation (see article on normal foot motion) causes excessive stretching of these tendons which over time results in inflammation. The treatment and prevention of this condition involves an arch support to prevent excessive foot pronation.

Pain on the exterior of the leg might be the result of a condition generally known as iliotibial wedding ring symptoms. The iliotibial wedding ring extends through the pelvis down your outside of the lower leg along with connects to the outside the house section of the leg. Difficulty with your base combined with excessive use (such since running or even bicycling) can bring about irritation where the iliotibial wedding ring inserts in to the outer leg. There are many distinct base conditions might cause that irritation. In the event the person is actually flat-footed (over-pronatnor) that brings about your shin (lower lower leg bone) to be able to overly in the camera rotate. This kind of increases the expand for the iliotibial wedding ring along with brings about irritation. Conversely in case a person carries a high-arched base, your base was in a supinated situation (see standard base motion) and this also too might cause extreme expand for the iliotibial wedding ring along with irritation. Those two very different types of base troubles end in exactly the same painful condition (iliotibial wedding ring syndrome). Even so the a pair of troubles demand unique treatments. To be able to right the issue it is necessary to find out what is a producing the issue.

Leg arthritis is usually induced or even increased by issues with your base. Another person containing arthritis discomfort for leg closest to the midline (medial compartment) often have a supinated base that will leads to a bow-legged kind of stance. Another person using discomfort inside horizontal inner compartment (the outer section of the leg farthest through the midline) could be flat-footed, a hyper-pronator, leading into a knock-kneed kind of stance. Throughout the proper utilization of a base orthotic I think that we can certainly, as time passes, slow up the weight for the painful leg inner compartment, slow up the discomfort along with a minimum of decelerate your deterioration of the cartilage.

Pain in the center of the knee is often cause by chondromalacia patella, also known as retropatellar (behind the kneecap) pain syndrome. This is often seen in someone with excessive pronation (flat-feet). As the knee straightens and bends the kneecap is supposed to ride smoothly in a cartilage-lined groove on the lower end of the femur (thigh bone). Somebody that is a hyper-pronator has excessive internal rotation of the tibia.