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Suggest Treatment For Pain In Knee Radiating Down To Leg
I fell a few months ago and hurt outer above ankle area. I have intermitted pain in this area but mostly suffer from pain just below the knee radiating down the outer side of the leg. Should I have xray or is this something that will heal itself if left to repair? Pain seems worse last few days.
Fri, 28 Nov 2014
first are you smoker ? your age ? it may be due to peripheral vascular disease or due to prolapsed intervertabral disc.. you should go for MRI of LS spine and Arterial Doplar to rule out cause of pain.
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I think that this pain needs proper investigation. I would suggest you to get x ray of the knee and it needed than MRI examination also. these two tests will tell us if some thing can be done for this , if there is any cartilage injury or a meniscus injury than it can be tackled with arthroscopy. If there is nerve compression than it will need decompression.
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