You’ve been experiencing inner knee pain lately, which has grown from being a minor inconvenience to a more impactful impediment to sport, recreation, work, and/or daily life. While the least common of reported knee pains (when compared to the outer or central knee) the region is responsible for a number of critical functions. The structures on the inside of the knee joint, namely the medial collateral ligament (MCL) and medial meniscus, provide stability and serve as shock absorbers for the variety of activities that you may participate in. The MCL connects the thigh bone to the shinbone on the inner side, mitigating excessive sideways movement, while the medial meniscus is a C-shaped cartilage that cushions the joint and evenly distributes weight. Understanding the importance and having grown tired of living with the injury or malfunction, you have taken to Google or ChatGBT to find local physiotherapy for inner knee pain. If located in the Greater Vancouver BC area you can schedule your assessment today at our Burnaby BC clinic by clicking or tapping here. Or, you can read ahead first for more information.
Why You Have Inner Knee Pain Why Our Physical Therapy / Physiotherapy Clinic is Where to Come for Help
Common Causes of Inner Knee Pain
Removing underlying medical issues from the equation, primary causes of inner knee pain include the following:
Overuse Injury: Injury to the inner knee may be the result of repetitive stress from activities such as running, jumping, or squatting. Trauma, like a sprain or tear of the MCL may be what has occurred.
Arthritis: Inner knee pain may be the direct result of osteoarthritis, which is a degenerative joint disease that causes cartilage breakdown.
Soft Tissue Conditions: Soft tissue conditions that may be related to your inner knee pain include i) plica syndrome, which is Inflammation of a fold of tissue within the knee joint, ii) pes anserine bursitis, which is characterized by Inflammation of a fluid-filled sac near your inner knee, and iii) tendinitis: which is a common form of inner knee tendon Inflammation.
Deep Vein Thrombosis: This issue can cause pain behind the knee (and feel like it’s around the inner knee) when a blood clot forms in the popliteal vein.
Nerve Entrapment: This issue can cause inner knee pain primarily through compression or irritation of the saphenous nerve, a sensory nerve that travels down the inside of the thigh to the medial side of the knee.
Poor Gait + Improper Footwear: This contributes to inner knee pain by altering lower body alignment and increasing stress on the joint, primarily through a lack of arch support that leads to foot pronation and potentially inward knee rotation (aka “knock-knees”).
How Our Clinic Will Help
Without getting into the specifics of each (we will explain treatment thoroughly in-person), find peace of mind that our full-service clinic offers the most complete suite of physiotherapy inner knee pain treatments in Greater Vancouver. Between our massage, modalities, acupuncture, dry-needling, and orthotics specialists you will begin to see notable improvements in inner knee pain and malfunction soon after sessions begin.
Correct Inner Knee Pain Today Through Physiotherapy
(Burnaby and Vancouver residents)