If I sit for 30 minutes or more I have problem with my knees getting out of chair. I do have pain down the side of my legs. I eat healthy and exercise at least 4 times a week. I m a 54 year old female and take no medications. Do you have any suggestions as to what may be causing my knee pain?
Hi, thank-you for providing the brief history of you. As you are 54 there will be degenerative changes in the normal physiological process of the body. Exercise and diet is good for making the physiological responses better, but the degenerative changes cannot be predicted. Taking a thorough clinical examination and may be an MRI of knee or either the lumbar spine should give some inputs to the history. As the pain is in the knee and radiating down this can be due to either of the factors, either a ligament injury in the knee joint or may be a pinched nerve in the lumbar spine. Based on the clinical examination and laboratory investigation the treatment can be planned. Regards Jay In Chat Doctor.