Bob and Brad discuss how to tell if your knee pain is bursitis, including suprapatellar, prepatellar, infrapatellar, and pes ...

A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that helps to provide a cushion and to reduce friction between the bones, tendons, and ligaments of your joints. There are many bursae located throughout your body. Your ...

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 when kneeling can be due to a number of conditions, such as bursitis, arthritis, and patellar tendonitis. Treatments can depend on the underlying cause. Kneeling aggravates knee pain because ...

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 ...

Prepatellar bursitis is a common complaint of people who work on their knees or are at higher risk for knee injury. Home treatment, including ice, rest, and over-the-counter pain relievers can help in ...

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 ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What's the most effective way to treat knee bursitis? I've had it for months and the pain is worsening, but I've heard that even after treatment it can come back. Is there a way to ...

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, ...

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 ...

Over the Christmas holidays, I wrote about waking up with pain in my “good” knee, the right one that has never been injured. My left knee, on the other hand, has had two arthroscopic procedures to ...