It is also called as carpet layer s knee or housemaid s knee.
Carpet layers knee problems.
Prepatellar bursitis is an inflammation of the prepatellar bursa at the front of the knee.
1 symptoms of the condition are swelling of the knee.
Such workers strike a knee kicker used to stretch the carpet with the suprapatellar area of their knees.
A cross sectional study of a historical cohort.
Members of a carpet layers union required knee surgery evacuation of knee effusions and treatment of repeated joint infection.
Knee problems among carpet layers are described.
Morbidity from repetitive knee trauma in carpet and floor layers.
It is suggested that these entities resemble housemaid s knee.
Jensen lk rytter s marott jl and bonde jp.
Carpet layers spend approximately 75 percent of their workday kneeling according to niosh estimates putting a significant amount of pressure on their knees.
Identification of these two risk factors provides opportunities for prevention.
The carpet layer usually owns his own knee kicker which costs about 100.
This condition can develop either due to pressure or a direct injury to the knee.
The knee is tender to touch although the pain and swelling do not hamper motion of knee.
Relationship between years in the trade and the development of radiographic knee osteoarthritis and mri detected meniscal tears and bursitis in floor layers.
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.