Common causes of Knee pain

Causes of Knee pain that are very common

The following causes of Knee pain are diseases or medical conditions that affect more than 10 million people in the USA:

• Arthritis - knee pain
• Osteoarthritis - knee joint pain
• Trauma

Causes of Knee pain that are common

The following causes of Knee pain are diseases or conditions that affect more than 1 million people in the USA:

• Bursitis
• Paget's disease of bone - knee pain
• Rheumatoid arthritis

Causes of Knee pain that are uncommon

The following causes of Knee pain are diseases or conditions that affect more than 200,000 people, but less than 1 million people in the USA:

• Ankylosing Spondylitis - knee arthritis
• Gout - knee pain

Causes of Knee pain that are very rare

The following causes of Knee pain appear in the population at a rate of substantially less than 200,000 people per year in the USA:

• Congenital syphilis
• Hemophilia
• Hip Replacement - Knee pain
• Leukemia
• Lyme disease - knee arthritis
• Reiter’s syndrome - knee arthritis
• Sarcoidosis
• Yersiniosis - knee pain

Causes of Knee pain without any prevalence information

The following causes of Knee pain are ones for which we do not have any prevalence information.

• Acute leukemia
• 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
• Cruciate injury
• 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
• Gram's syndrome - knee pain
• Hemarthrosis
• Hemoglobinopathies
• Hip conditions - Knee pain
• Hip injury - 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
• Joint injury - knee - knee pain
• 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
• Lipoarthritis
• Lipoma arborescens
• Malignant bone tumor
• Medial ligament injury
• 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, 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
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Rickets
• 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
• Talo-patello-scaphoid osteolysis, synovitis, and short fourth metacarpals - knee pain
• TAR syndrome - knee arthritis
• Torn ligament
• Trochlear dysplasia - knee pain
• Upper tibia epiphysis and apophysis
• Viral infection
• Weak ankles - also causing knee pain from gait problems.

All Causes of Knee pain

The full list of all possible causes for Knee pain described in various sources is as follows:

• Acute leukemia
• Ankylosing Spondylitis - knee arthritis
• Arthritis - knee pain
• Baker's cyst
• Baker's cyst of knee (and rupture)

See full list of possible disease causes of Knee pain

Drug side effect causes of Knee pain

• Fermathron - Temporary knee pain
• Hylan - Temporary knee pain
• Synvisc - Temporary knee pain

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