Back Pain & Knee Pain

Hello everyone,

I am Dr Sanjay Alle and practicing orthopedic surgeon in area of Worli. So, today we will discuss some of the common problems in day to day life. So, I would be discussing most common patients who, the maximum patients who come to me like back pain, knee pain generally these are the common most common problems. And and the age group for this backache and knee pain is most of the working group as well as the old age groups. So, the reason for the different age groups is different. So, the most common problem nowadays because most of the persons are going to office going people. So, what they do is they are not exposed to sunlight as such, so because of that there is the there is a massive diff deficiency of Vitamin D3. So, that is one of the main cause for back pain in mainly the office going population. So, in that what happens is how we all know that calcium is most important to the body, for the bone basically. But, most of us are not, unaware of the vitamin D3. As we all know vitamin D3, food content is very much very very minimal. So, the main source of vitamin D3 is sunlight.

So, I always advise all of my patients to at least to go for 20 to 25 minutes in the sun exposure. So, there won't be a Vitamin D3 deficiency but considering the present scenario means all of the morning 9 to 5 there is a job so very minimal exposure sunlight is there so that is a practical problem. So, because of that there is a massive vitamin d deficiency and due to that there is a backache and everything. And lack of exercises also leads to most of the backache problems. In old age, it rather than most of the vitamin d deficiency in old age also we see vitamin d deficiency but along with that the osteoporosis, osteoporosis one of the main reason in the old age people. And because of the deficiency of calcium, because of the mainly hormonal changes, mainly in females after the menopause, there is a hormonal change and because of that the main reason for osteoporosis and because that will lead to the back pain of it.

So, all these conditions, medicines play a very minimal role, we normally prescribe medicines but apart from the medicines, the main role should be preventive medicines like preventive measures like what the preventive measure would be we should avoid forward bending which is one of the main reason of back pain. So, we should not forward bending should be avoided as much as possible. The second thing, sitting on the ground. Sitting on the ground is one of the major factors. We all see whenever we all for lifting the heavy weight by doing forward bending, so in osteoporosis we have seen multiple fractures also. So, we have to avoid we have to take care of the preventive measures like avoiding forward bending, sitting on the ground and for knee pain knee pain also sitting on the ground is very much it fastens the degenerative process. We all know the osteoarthritis of knee, the main reason for knee pain in old age.

So, it is an ageing process. Nobody can stop the ageing process. So, osteoarthritis is one of the ageing processes. So, what we need we need to do for that is if you ask me really, there are very minimal medicines for the knee osteoarthritis of the knee. There are different stages of the knee osteoarthritis mainly from simple grade 1 to grade 4. So, normally for the last stage we third stage or 4 stages, we advise for a surgery. But to avoid those things, to avoid the fastening the process of the osteoarthritis, we have to take some preventive measures like we should not do cross leg sitting, we should not sit on the ground, we always advise not to do some basic exercises they are not much, they don't take much of time but we have to do the basic exercises. If you want to take an expert opinion for that, it is always advisable to visit a physiotherapist for that. So, so both common problems I have told you back pain, knee pain and vitamin D deficiency. So, I hope this information will help you in tackling some common problem orthopaedic problems and for more information, you can contact me through Lybrate.

Thank you!