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Causes of Knee pain
This section discusses 116 medical conditions causing Knee pain. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.
Causes of Knee pain:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Knee pain.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
- Knee injury
- Knee strain (type of Knee conditions)
- Knee sprain
- Prior knee injury
- Knee fracture
- Dislocated knee
- Dislocated patella
- Femoral condyle fracture
- Torn ligament
- Fractured patella
- Supracondylar femur fracture
- Fractured tibial plateau
- Upper tibia epiphysis and apophysis
- Knee overuse
- Knee infection (see Knee symptoms)
- Knee bacterial infection
- Knee inflammation (see Knee symptoms)
- Knee arthritis (type of Knee conditions)
- Chondromalacia patellae - causing kneecap pain or pain around the knee cap.
- Osgood-Schlatter disease - especially for knee pain in adolescents.
- Osteochondritis dissecans
- Referred knee pain
- Gait problems (see Walking symptoms)
- Fallen arches - walking changes may cause knee pain.
- Weak ankles - also causing knee pain from gait problems.
- Knee tumor (see Knee symptoms)
- Knee cyst
- Trauma
- Juvenile chronic arthritis
- Pyogenic infection
- Viral infection
- Hemoglobinopathies
- Leukemia
- Rickets
- Scurvy
- Clutton's joints
- Inflammatory arthritis
- Intermittent hydrarthrosis
- Pyrophosphate arthropathy
- Synovioma
- Malignant bone tumor
- Sarcoidosis
- Neuropathic (Charcot's) knee joint
- Pigmented villonodular synovitis
- Synovial chondromatosis
- Lipoma arborescens
- Lipoarthritis
- Hoffa's disease
- Bleeding disorders
- Congenital syphilis
- Baker's cyst
- Pyarthrosis
- Gonococcal pyarthrosis
- Hemophilia
- Acute leukemia
- Hemarthrosis
- Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy periostitis
- Osteochondirits
- Sciatica
- Popliteal cyst
- Knock knees
- Paget's disease
- Septic arthritis (see Joint pain)
- Patello-femoral pain syndrome
- Still's disease
- Iliotibial band friction syndrome
- Synovial plica syndrome
- Johansson-Sinding-Larsen syndrome
Causes of Knee pain listed in Disease Database:
Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible
causes of Knee pain as a symptom include:
- Baker's cyst of knee (and rupture)
- Chondromalacia patellae
- Hoffa's disease
- Howship-Romberg sign
- Iliotibial band syndrome
- Meniscal pathology
- Osgood-Schlatter's disease
- Osteochondritis dissecans
- Patellar tendinitis
- Patellofemoral pain syndrome
- Pellegrini-Stieda syndrome
- Pigmented villonodular synovitis
- Sinding Larsen-Johannson disease
Conditions listing medical symptoms: Knee pain:
The following list of conditions have 'Knee pain' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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Conditions listing medical complications: Knee pain:
The following list of medical conditions have 'Knee pain' or similar listed as a medical complication in our database. This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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More Information About Knee pain
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List of 116 causes of Knee pain
This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Knee pain in our database from various sources.
- Acute leukemia
- Ankylosing Spondylitis - knee arthritis
- Arthritis - knee pain
- Baker's cyst
- Baker's cyst of knee (and rupture)
- Bleeding disorders
- Brodie knee - knee pain
- Bursitis
- Chondromalacia - knee pain climbing stairs
- Chondromalacia patellae - causing kneecap pain or pain around the knee cap.
- Clutton's joints
- Congenital syphilis
- Dislocated knee
- Dislocated patella
- Epiphyseal dysplasia, multiple, 2 - knee pain
- Epiphyseal dysplasia, multiple, 3 - knee pain
- Epiphyseal dysplasia, multiple, 5 - knee pain
- Erythema nodosum - knee pain
- Fairbank disease - knee pain
- Fallen arches - walking changes may cause knee pain.
- Femoral condyle fracture
- Fractured patella
- Fractured tibial plateau
- Gait problems
- Gonococcal pyarthrosis
- Gout - knee pain
- Gram's syndrome - knee pain
- Hemarthrosis
- Hemoglobinopathies
- Hemophilia
- Hip conditions - Knee pain
- Hip injury - Knee pain
- Hip Replacement - Knee pain
- Hoffa's disease
- Housemaid's knee
- Howship-Romberg sign
- Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy periostitis
- Hypophosphatemic rickets - knee pain
- Iliotibial band friction syndrome
- Iliotibial band syndrome - knee ache at the side of the knee during activity
- Inflammatory arthritis
- Intermittent hydrarthrosis
- Jaffe-Lichtenstein-Sutro syndrome - knee pain
- Johansson-Sinding-Larsen syndrome
- Juvenile chronic arthritis
- Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis - knee pain
- Knee arthritis
- Knee bacterial infection
- Knee bursitis
- Knee conditions - Knee pain
- Knee cyst
- Knee fracture
- Knee infection
- Knee inflammation
- Knee injury - Knee pain
- Knee overuse
- Knee sprain - knee pain
- Knee strain
- Knee tendinitis - knee pain on running
- Knee tumor
- Knock knees
- Leukemia
- Lipoarthritis
- Lipoma arborescens
- Lyme disease - knee arthritis
- Malignant bone tumor
- Meniscal pathology
- Meniscus injury - pain straightening knee
- Neuropathic (Charcot's) knee joint
- Osgood-Schlatter disease - knee pain worsens on activity
- Osgood-Schlatter's disease
- Osteoarthritis - knee joint pain
- Osteochondirits
- Osteochondritis dissecans - sharp knee pain
- Osteochondrosis - Knee pain
- Paget's disease
- Paget's disease of bone - knee pain
- Paget's disease, type 1 - knee pain
- Paget's disease, type 4 - knee pain
- Pancreas conditions - Knee pain
- Patellar tendinitis
- Patello-femoral pain syndrome
- Pellegrini-Stieda syndrome
- Pigmented villonodular synovitis
- Plica Syndrome - knee pain
- Popliteal cyst
- Prior knee injury
- Pyarthrosis
- Pyogenic infection
- Pyrophosphate arthropathy
- Referred knee pain
- Reiter’s syndrome - knee arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rickets
- Sarcoidosis
- Sciatica
- Scurvy
- Septic arthritis
- Seronegative spondyloarthropathy - Knee pain
- Sinding Larsen-Johannson disease
- Singh-Williams-McAlister, syndrome - knee pain
- Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda, autosomal dominant - knee pain
- Still's disease
- Supracondylar femur fracture
- Synovial chondromatosis
- Synovial plica syndrome
- Synovioma
- Synovitis
- TAR syndrome - knee arthritis
- Torn ligament
- Trauma
- Trochlear dysplasia - knee pain
- Upper tibia epiphysis and apophysis
- Viral infection
- Weak ankles - also causing knee pain from gait problems.
- Yersiniosis - knee pain
Medical Textbooks about Knee pain (Full Online Access)
Free online access without registration is available to view excerpts from medical textbooks about the causes and diagnosis of Knee pain. Refer to our list of medical textbooks discussions about Knee pain (Free online access to book excerpts, no registration).- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter"
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