| To make an appropriate medical assessment, a patient will need to inform the doctor the precise location or sites of pain. The specific areas affected by pain may point to different forms of the disease, like bursitis, arthritis, or chrondromalacia patella, a softening of the patella cartilage of the knee.
Injuries of the collateral ligaments, arthritis, or meniscus tears cause pain at the sides of the knee. Anterior knee pain may be the result of arthritis, or Bakers cysts, a build-up of excess synovial fluid at the back of the knee. One other cause of knee pain can be attributed to infection. |
