Does Cold Laser Therapy Help Ease ‘Bone On Bone’ Knee Pain?
‘Bone on Bone’ knee pain is probably the most common condition that I get asked about either from individuals that don’t want knee surgery or are not candidates for knee replacement surgery. At the DFW Spine & Joint Center our Cold Laser Knee Program has helped hundreds of patients avoid knee surgery. It is not unusual for individuals to complete treatments with 50-80% less pain, more mobility, and an overall better quality of life. Let me be clear, if you are suffering from ‘bone on bone’ knee pain the pain isn’t directly due to a lack of cartilage in the knee. (Cartilage doesn’t have any nerve endings therefore there are no nerve fibers to transmit pain. For example, there are a lucky few that have been diagnosed with ‘bone on bone’ and do not have any knee pain. The only thing they experience is weakness in the knee joint). Instead, ‘bone on bone knee pain’ is due to the nerve endings in the bone being irritated. Overactive or irritated nerve fibers are the main reason a patient fee
