Trauma to the knee can be acute or chronic.
Carpet layers knee problems.
It is marked by swelling at the knee which can be tender to the touch and which generally does not restrict the knee s range of motion it can be extremely painful and disabling as long as the underlying condition persists.
Jensen lk rytter s marott jl and bonde jp.
Such workers strike a knee kicker used to stretch the carpet with the suprapatellar area of their knees.
Relationship between years in the trade and the development of radiographic knee osteoarthritis and mri detected meniscal tears and bursitis in floor layers.
This condition can develop either due to pressure or a direct injury to the knee.
Compared with workers who rarely kneel niosh found that carpet layers have high frequencies of bursitis of the knee fluid buildup requiring knee aspirations skin infections of the knee and a variety of other knee disorders.
Both kneeling and use of the knee kicker contribute significantly to the high frequency of carpet layers knee disorders.
1 symptoms of the condition are swelling of the knee.
The knee is tender to touch although the pain and swelling do not hamper motion of knee.
Prepatellar bursitis is an inflammation of the prepatellar bursa at the front of the knee.
Morbidity from repetitive knee trauma in carpet and floor layers.
Carpet layers spend approximately 75 percent of their workday kneeling according to niosh estimates putting a significant amount of pressure on their knees.
The carpet layer usually owns his own knee kicker which costs about 100.
A cross sectional study of a historical cohort.
Knee problems among carpet layers are described.
It is also called as carpet layer s knee or housemaid s knee.
