Common causes of pain above your knee include quadricep or hamstring tendonitis, arthritis, and knee bursitis. Your knee is the largest joint in your body, formed where your femur and tibia meet.

Finding it harder to do everyday activities like climb stairs or simply bend down to tie your shoes lately? If you have achy knees, it may be bursitis, a common inflammatory condition that causes pain ...

Bursae are fluid-filled sacs in areas of the body that facilitate movement. The knee has several bursae and conditions such as bursitis can impact the bursa in the knee. The body’s musculoskeletal ...

Knee pain while running is often due to runner's knee, IT band syndrome, and knee bursitis. Most running-related knee injuries are the result of increasing your mileage or pace too quickly. If you ...

Runners are accustomed to a certain amount of discomfort in their lower bodies. Some of that discomfort is normal: Running causes microtears in the muscles, which your body repairs during recovery so ...

As warm weather arrives and the great outdoors beckons, more and more men and women will be taking to the trails, the beaches, or their yards and gardens, embarking on physical activities that may ...

This week we are going to discuss bursitis of the hip and of the knee. A bursa is a folded membrane with fluid between it’s layers which serves to decrease friction around a joint, to cushion tendons, ...

The term bursitis refers to inflammation and swelling of the bursa, a sac-like structure that forms under the skin to prevent two surfaces from rubbing together and causing damage. There are nearly ...

A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that acts as a cushion between bones and tendons or muscles, to prevent these surfaces rubbing together and causing damage. Bursae are often found in the joints where ...