Long, grueling sports sessions can overly soften the soft tissues or muscles in your legs that cause the knee to become tense and tired. If you feel your knee sprained, it is important to know which symptoms to find and how to diagnose and treat them with the help of a doctor.
Identify Knee Symptoms Sprain
Pay attention to the pain that immediately arises after an injury or several hours later.
Pain generally arises because your muscles are overly performing. Therefore, the pain will show up depending on how deep your muscle is.
• When the muscle is too stretched, the area will immediately feel pain.
• If it is not too far out, the area can be painful afterwards because the area will start to get inflamed.
Feel the soft part around the sore area.
Gentle feeling occurs because your body starts to get inflamed in the affected part. Your body will react by increasing blood circulation to the area so it swells and softens.
• The pressure is spread to the tissues, muscles, and nerves around and causes it to become tender.
Identify swelling and inflammation.
Swelling is caused by inflammation that occurs after your muscle is injured. The body will react to the wound and increase blood circulation to the area until it swells up.
Watch for swelling around your injured knee.
Swelling is caused by inflammation that causes an increase in blood circulation in the area. Sometimes, the blood will result in redness of the injured area and visible swelling.
Watch for muscle spasms around the knee.
Usually muscles that spasms occur due to impromptu contractions that occur by itself. This happens due to muscle stretching in your knee.
• These muscle spasms can be painful.
Check your knee weakness.
You may feel your knees are weak when trying to move them or stand up. Just like other symptoms of a sprained knee, this weakness is due to inflammation that occurs in the wound.
• You may find it difficult to move your knee as usual.
Check if you have trouble walking.
When the muscles in your knee are too high, there may be interference when contracting and stretching. Muscles have to contract and relax to move. When the muscles cannot do it right, you can feel the difficulty walking.
• You may also have difficulty standing because your knee can not sustain your body weight.
Check if you feel numbness in your knee area.
Your knee may numb because it is too high. When your knees are over-performing, your nerves can be damaged and you will lose the ability to feel in the wounded area.
• You may feel your knee like a needle puncture.
WARNING
In addition to athletes, people who exercise to train body strength are at risk of muscle sprain. Underdeveloped body mechanisms and unbalanced tendon muscles during exercise can tear the muscles. Other factors such as the bone’s physical structure and growth can also result in a knee sprain.
Note that if you rarely move your knee, your knee can be permanently rigid.