Why does my knee make a cracking sound when I stretch my legs?

Everyone must often encounter the situation of creaking in their joints in life, especially some joints that are often used in daily life. If you maintain the same posture for a long time, the joints will creak when used again. Some people find that their knee joints always creak when they stretch their legs, and the noise is very loud. So what are the factors that affect the creaking of the knee joints?

Joint popping can be divided into physiological and pathological types. Most joint popping is physiological. While making the sound, it will not cause discomfort to other parts of the body. It does not cause much harm to the body and does not require special treatment, nor is there any need to worry about it. However, some people experience discomfort such as soreness, swelling, etc. when their joints pop, which may indicate that there is a problem with the joints. Common clinical diseases include meniscus injury and patellofemoral osteoarthritis. This pathological clicking is more common in the knee, ankle, hip and shoulder joints. The main symptoms of osteoporosis are pain in the chest, back, waist, knees and other parts of the body. In the early stage, it is soreness or discomfort in the waist and back. In the later stage, the pain may spread throughout the body, sometimes light and sometimes heavy. The pain worsens with large activities or fatigue, but it will be relieved after rest. Limited posterior extension of the waist. In severe cases, the patient may suffer from hunchback and shortened stature.

If it is arthritis, timely treatment is necessary if symptoms occur. The treatment of osteoarthritis includes drug therapy, auxiliary therapy and surgical treatment. Surgical treatment is a good treatment option for patients whose disease has progressed to the late stage; for patients in the early and middle stages, drug treatment is generally used in combination with other auxiliary treatment methods. We must actively take correct and effective measures to treat the disease as early as possible and control the condition as early as possible.

It can also easily lead to fractures, restricted mobility, or even the need for crutches. As for osteoporosis, its pathogenesis is kidney deficiency and spleen deficiency, so the treatment principle of strengthening the spleen and kidney is adopted to prevent and treat it according to the pathogenesis. Western medicine respects objective facts and analyzes the factors that cause osteoporosis through a series of clinical and laboratory tests such as hormone secretion levels, bone density measurements, pathological examinations, dietary analysis, etc., and adopts targeted treatment plans for treatment. That is, hormone replacement therapy, vitamin D supplementation therapy, calcium supplementation therapy, drug therapy that promotes osteoblast activity, therapy that inhibits osteoclast activity, etc.