Women’s knee pain: Despite the variety of effective treatments and physicians who specialize in treating pain, women often suffer unnecessarily and may treat their pain with medications that may be ineffective and possibly harmful, according to a review of research related to women and pain by the American Society of Anesthesiologists. At the JPRC Center, we specialize in treating chronic pain, sometimes they are women who have been suffering a long time with joint pain. We recently reported on research that shows 63% of women age 50 and older reported persistent, incident, or intermittent knee pain during a 12-year study period.
Mostly these women suffered from obesity, osteoarthritis, and previous knee injury. Ironically, many women opt for knee replacement surgery with the belief that they will be able to lose weight. This idea has been disproved in much of the medical literature.…
