Suffered a sporting knee injury in Yorkshire? Try these tips to help you recover.

Few places can boast a sporting smorgasbord like Yorkshire. From its cricket grounds to its rugby and football pitches, its cycling traditions to its dale walking, pot-holing, golfing brilliance, there are endless ways to compete, keep fit and challenge yourself. Unfortunately, that means there are rather a lot of ways to injure your knee too.

So if you suffer a mishap, follow these tips for repairing sports knee injuries in Yorkshire:

Pain relief

Even a mild sprain or hefty bruise can be sore. If you twist your knee and the problem seems minor (check the sections below to make sure it’s not serious) but painful, take a paracetamol to reduce pain or ibuprofen to reduce pain and swelling.

Swelling

If you’ve had a blow to the knee (from a fall, a tackle or a simple slip on the way to the changing rooms) and the knee swells within one hour, the likelihood is there’s bleeding on the knee and it will need treatment. Don’t be tempted to play on (even if you think you can). Seek urgent attention from a knee specialist.

RICE

You’d be amazed how many sports knee injuries in Yorkshire can be repaired by the RICE technique. RICE stands for Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation. It’s ideal for healing minor knee twists and sprains and can limit the damage and reduce the symptoms of more severe problems.

Surgery

Repairing sports knee injuries in Yorkshire can potentially be treated in a variety of ways, from the measures above to physiotherapy and surgery. Of the possible options, surgery is usually considered after other alternatives have been exhausted, because any surgical procedure inevitably carries more risk than no surgical procedure.

However, if surgery is the next natural step to repair your sports injury in Yorkshire, our knee specialists can help. Yorkshire Knee Clinic’s knee specialists and surgeons have helped thousands of people like you recover from sporting knee injuries in Yorkshire.

Contact Yorkshire Knee Clinic

To find out how we can help you, please get in touch, or phone us on 03453 052 579.