Home cures for knee injuries

Home cures for knee injuries 

The first thing to do is to take weight off the hurt area. Also avoid climbing up and down stairs and don't do anything that involves impact or load bearing. All of these may worsen the injury.




Ice is the best possible way to reduce swelling. Wrap a few ice cubes in a cloth and apply for twenty minutes. Take it off for twenty minutes and apply again for twenty.


Keep this up for the first couple of days. After that you can tray an alternating hot and cold compress. Apply a hot compress before any activity and a cold one afterwards to reduce swelling.

Gentle pressure in the form of a crepe bandage  will reduce swelling and prevent aggravation due to hasty or jerky movements. Don't tie the bandage so tightly that the area around it turns blue. Tie it just tight enough to exert a gentle and comfortable pressure.

Elevate the leg which has suffered injury whenever possible. While lying down prop your feet up on a couple of pillows and while sitting put your leg up on a stool.This way blood flows away from your injury and the swelling goes down.

Boswellia and Curcumin singly or in combination work beautifully for pain caused by inflammation. They will reduce the swelling and the time to heal for a knee injury. The main thing is to give the knee time to heal and to avoid all hectic activity in the meanwhile.