Carpet Layers Knee Problems

Carpet layers spend approximately 75 percent of their workday kneeling according to niosh estimates putting a significant amount of pressure on their knees.

Carpet layers knee problems. The knee is tender to touch although the pain and swelling do not hamper motion of knee. Jensen lk rytter s marott jl and bonde jp. Trauma to the knee can be acute or chronic. 1 symptoms of the condition are swelling of the knee.

Members of a carpet layers union required knee surgery evacuation of knee effusions and treatment of repeated joint infection. This condition can develop either due to pressure or a direct injury to the knee. It is also called as carpet layer s knee or housemaid s knee. Morbidity from repetitive knee trauma in carpet and floor layers.

Both kneeling and use of the knee kicker contribute significantly to the high frequency of carpet layers knee disorders. A cross sectional study of a historical cohort. Prepatellar bursitis is an inflammation of the prepatellar bursa at the front of the knee. The carpet layer usually owns his own knee kicker which costs about 100.

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. Such workers strike a knee kicker used to stretch the carpet with the suprapatellar area of their knees. Identification of these two risk factors provides opportunities for prevention. Relationship between years in the trade and the development of radiographic knee osteoarthritis and mri detected meniscal tears and bursitis in floor layers.