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What is Knee Pain?

Knee pain occurs in patients of all ages and can be very limiting, especially if you like to stay active. Common knee injuries and joint diseases include arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and other metabolic bone diseases.

Arthritis is often the cause of knee pain in older adults. In younger patients, knee pain is also called patellofemoral pain, anterior knee pain, runner's knee, or jumper's knee.

Knee pain affects women more often than men.

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UR Medicine's Treatments for Knee Pain

Our team will work closely with you to decide which knee pain treatment options are right for you.

We use our advanced diagnostic procedures to be sure that we know the full extent of your injury. With this information, we can decide which treatment approach will have the best outcome for you.

Conditions we treat:

  • Conservative treatments: Rest, medication, and physical therapy are often the most effective ways to treat an injury.
  • Injection therapy: Some conditions respond well to medication applied directly at the point of injury. Our doctors use ultrasound to guide them to exactly the right spot.
  • Surgical Treatments: Using a tiny camera slipped through a small incision, our surgeons can see inside your injured joint. They watch their progress on a video monitor while they repair torn tendons and ligaments, reshape bones, or remove fragments of bone and cartilage. Our surgeons and neurosurgeons use the most advanced techniques to repair and rebuild bones and joints, treat nerve damage, or replace joints when this is the best option. In situations where there is advanced arthritis, our knee replacement specialists provide state-of-the-art care, sometimes even as an outpatient.

What Sets Us Apart?

UR Medicine's Orthopaedics & Physical Performance are national leaders in treating knee pain and injury. Our providers bring decades of experience and training in all of the most advanced treatments, and we see thousands of patients every year (according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, doctors who perform thousands of knee surgeries have the best outcomes).

Our doctors treating knee pain are fellowship-trained—the highest level of achievement in their field. For problems involving nerve damage, our Neurosurgery Department is equipped to treat even the rarest conditions.

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8 locations

Orthopaedics & Physical Performance - Greece
Part of Strong Memorial Hospital

South Pointe Landing
10 South Pointe Landing, Suite 100
Rochester, NY 14626

Orthopaedics & Physical Performance - Penfield
Part of Strong Memorial Hospital

Platinum Office Complex
2064 Fairport Nine Mile Point Road
Penfield, NY 14526

Orthopaedics & Physical Performance - Brockport
Part of Strong Memorial Hospital

Strong West
156 West Avenue
Brockport, NY 14420

St. James Center for Orthopaedic Care - Hornell

St. James Hospital
7309 Seneca Road North, Suite 107
Hornell, NY 14843

Jones Memorial Hospital - Wellsville

191 North Main Street, PO Box 72
Wellsville, NY 14895

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