What causes knee pain when climbing mountains?

Speaking of mountain climbing, everyone is familiar with it, and some young people should have had the experience of mountain climbing. Mountain climbing can relieve mood and broaden horizons, but there are many various conditions that may occur during mountain climbing, especially muscle strain and knee pain are particularly common. Today we will take a look at the causes of knee pain after mountain climbing.

It should be a soft tissue strain (exertional injury). Climbing can rule out possible underlying diseases of your knee joint, such as discoid meniscus. It seems that the lack of warm-up exercises during exercise leads to tendon strain. Because the upper part of the knee joint is where the patellar ligament passes, the lack of warm-up exercises often leads to aseptic inflammation of the suprapatellar bursa. This inflammatory injury does not cause bleeding.

Soft tissue strain can be cured without treatment, simply by resting, so don't be too nervous. It usually takes about 2 weeks, so it is normal to feel pain after climbing. Treatment methods include rest, hot compress, and blood circulation and blood stasis removal. The ones recommended by the doctor friends above are all very reliable.

I'd like to add a few preventive measures. If you like mountain climbing, it is a very good form of aerobic exercise that can strengthen your body and even help you lose weight. I hope you can stick to it. However, you still need to do a warm-up before exercising, such as squatting, stretching, walking on flat ground for a while, and then going up the mountain. This is more scientific.

Through the above introduction, we have a general understanding of the causes of knee pain when climbing. Here we would also like to remind everyone that they need to do a short warm-up exercise before climbing, so as to avoid and relieve physical injuries, knee pain and other problems. If the pain persists, it may be a soft tissue injury and requires timely treatment.