Early knee arthritis is extremely common and there are lots of different strategies that we use in order to help people to control their symptoms. Controlling your weight is extremely important because as you might imagine, the more weight and force you put through the knee, the more pain you’re likely to have. Physiotherapy in order to provide a nice, strong, muscular surrounding to the knee is also extremely important. It also allows you to keep the knee nice and supple.
Following this, if these haven’t helped, we can use strategies such as injections of steroid and other items into the knee. However, I’m reluctant to do that unless the first two strategies have failed. In the longer term, there are other things we can do, including operations, but I think that that’s very uncommon and I would really want to have a full understanding of how your symptoms revolving up to over a 12 month period before I’d think about doing anything more invasive.