{"id":4076,"date":"2022-05-03T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/kneepaintraumatic\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T14:39:44","slug":"kneepaintraumatic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/paediatricorthopaedics\/kneepaintraumatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Knee pain &#8211; traumatic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u200b<strong>Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knee injuries in children are more likely to be fractures than ligament injuries. A traumatic knee effusion is usually a haemarthosis, associated with a fracture and this should be investigated in ED<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patella subluxations \/ dislocations are also common causes of knee pain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M.A. &amp; M-J.S. 02-05-24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs\" data-active-tab=\"0\"><ul class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-links\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Primary Care Management<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p><strong>Peace&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Love&nbsp;<\/strong>soft tissue injury guidelines;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>P-<\/strong>protect<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>E-<\/strong>elevate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A-<\/strong>avoid anti-inflammatories<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C-<\/strong>compression<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>E-<\/strong>education<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>L<\/strong>-load<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>O<\/strong>-optimism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>V<\/strong>-vascularisation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>E<\/strong>-exercise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advise attendance at ED if<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Suspected fracture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>High energy injury<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rapid and\/or ongoing post-injury swelling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inability to weight bear<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deformity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sudden onset loss of movement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Swollen knee (effusion\/ haemarthrosis)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Resources and Links<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/files\/sites\/2\/Childrens-Knee-Injury-\u2013-Soft-Tissue-RHCYP-V1.1-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Childrens-Knee-Injury-\u2013-Soft-Tissue-RHCYP-V1.1-.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8203;Information Knee injuries in children are more likely to be fractures than ligament injuries. A traumatic knee effusion is usually a haemarthosis, associated with a fracture and this should be investigated in ED Patella subluxations \/ dislocations are also common causes of knee pain M.A. &amp; M-J.S. 02-05-24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4268,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408,762],"class_list":["post-4076","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-kneetraumaticevent","category-https-apps-testing28-scot-nhs-uk-refhelp-guidelines-kneepaintraumatic"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/category\/orthopaedics\/knee\/kneetraumaticevent\/\" rel=\"tag\">Knee (traumatic event)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/category\/paediatric\/paediatricorthopaedics\/https-apps-testing28-scot-nhs-uk-refhelp-guidelines-kneepaintraumatic\/\" rel=\"tag\">Knee pain-traumatic<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"&#8203;Information Knee injuries in children are more likely to be fractures than ligament injuries. A traumatic knee effusion is usually a haemarthosis, associated with a fracture and this should be investigated in ED Patella subluxations \/ dislocations are also common causes of knee pain M.A. &amp; M-J.S. 02-05-24","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22312,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4076\/revisions\/22312"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}