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Patient Academy
Anyone with knee pain, age 11 to 99
Plain language across symptoms, diagnosis, imaging, treatment choices, rehabilitation and prevention. Written to be read the evening before a clinic appointment.
Depth 2 of 7 in the spiral
What you will cover
Each topic returns at the tier above this one, with more detail rather than a repeat.
- What the different parts of the knee do
- What your symptoms usually mean
- What to expect at a knee appointment
- How to read your scan report
- Treatment choices and the trade offs
- What recovery actually involves
- Questions worth asking your surgeon
- Keeping the other knee well
Start here
Two ways in. Read the entry topic, or answer a few questions and let the result choose for you.
Start with
What is causing my knee pain
A guided route from where it hurts and what you were doing to the likely explanations.
Coming soonOr try
The knee score centre
Validated outcome scores, with plain guidance on what a change in score means.
Coming soonTopics at this level
The full syllabus for this tier. Pages marked as coming soon are written and reviewed in syllabus order.
Understanding your knee
- The parts of the knee and what they do
- Why knees hurt
- Pain that is not coming from the joint
- Swelling, locking and giving way
Getting a diagnosis
- What happens at a knee appointment
- Tests your clinician will do
- Radiographs, MRI and ultrasound explained
- Reading your scan report
Conditions
- ACL injury
- Meniscal tears
- Osteoarthritis
- Kneecap pain and instability
- Tendon problems
Treatment and recovery
- Physiotherapy and what it does
- Injections
- When surgery helps and when it does not
- Preparing for an operation
- Rehabilitation week by week
Note. Everything here is educational. It does not replace assessment by a clinician who can examine your knee.