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Understand Your Knee Pain Treatment Options

Don’t let knee pain run your life. Get back to a life in motion. Our knee pain assessment quiz and free knee replacement eBook and infographics below will help you better understand your options.

If you and your doctor determine you need knee replacement, you can choose where you’d like to have the surgery. Two key factors for you to explore when deciding are the skill of your surgeon and what your hospital experience be like. Learn how UR Medicine Orthopaedics and Physical Performance and the Evarts Joint Center at Highland Hospital excel at both in our free education materials below.

Better understand your pain and how to describe its impact on your life when speaking with your doctor.

Pain Quiz

Do You Have: Level of Pain / Trouble
Trouble walking?
Trouble with stairs or hills?
Knee pain that interferes with your everyday routine?
Knee pain that interferes with things you do for fun?
Knee pain that interferes with your sleep?
Knee pain after you get out of bed in the morning?
Knee pain or stiffness that is there throughout the day, even at rest?
Knee pain when getting out of a chair?
Knee pain when you kneel down and get back up?
The feeling that your knee might give out?

Your score is 0

 

Your responses may indicate satisfactory joint function.

Although you might not require any formal treatment, you should discuss your knee pain with your primary care doctor/family physician or make an appointment with one of our non-operative orthopaedic doctors, who are part of our Sports Medicine team.

Please keep in mind that this pain assessment is not an official medical test and is a tool to help you better understand and explain your pain. Any medical decisions should be made in collaboration with your health care provider.

If you are ready to take action, call the UR Medicine Orthopaedics and Physical Performance team and together we determine your best path forward.

 

Your responses may indicate mild to moderate knee arthritis.

Your should discuss your knee pain with your primary care doctor/family physician or consider a consultation with an arthritis specialist. An x-ray might be recommended, and you might benefit from non-surgical treatment, such as exercise, weight loss, and/or anti-inflammatory medication.

Please keep in mind that this pain assessment is not an official medical test and is a tool to help you better understand and explain your pain. Any medical decisions should be made in collaboration with your health care provider.

If you are ready to take action, call the UR Medicine Orthopaedics and Physical Performance team and together we determine your best path forward.

 

Your responses may indicate moderate to severe knee arthritis.

Your should discuss your knee pain with your primary care doctor/family physician and consider a consultation with an arthritis specialist. An x-ray might be recommended, and you might benefit from non-surgical treatment, such as exercise, weight loss, and/or anti-inflammatory medication.

Please keep in mind that this pain assessment is not an official medical test and is a tool to help you better understand and explain your pain. Any medical decisions should be made in collaboration with your health care provider.

If you are ready to take action, call the UR Medicine Orthopaedics and Physical Performance team and together we can determine your best path forward.

 

Your responses may indicate severe knee arthritis.

Your should discuss your knee pain with your primary care doctor/family physician and consider a consultation with an arthritis specialist. An x-ray might be recommended, and if non-surgical treatments, such as physical therapy, exercise, weight loss, and/or anti-inflammatory medication have not worked, surgical options might be considered.

Please keep in mind that this pain assessment is not an official medical test and is a tool to help you better understand and explain your pain. Any medical decisions should be made in collaboration with your health care provider.

If you are ready to take action, call the UR Medicine Orthopaedics and Physical Performance team and together we can determine your best path forward.

Every body deserves to move freely. Joint replacement can help you return to a life in motion. Better Mobility Begins Here! Learn more about our Knee procedures or meet our surgeons.