Can you have sauna or steam therapy with knee synovitis?
Disease description:
I have knee joint synovitis. This inflammation can easily cause temporary or long-term loss of mobility and working ability in patients, and is often accompanied by bloody swelling of the knee joint. So, can I use sauna or steam therapy for knee synovitis?
Doctor's answer (1)
Dr. Lin Yunfei
Patients with knee synovitis should not use sweat therapy for treatment. Although sweat therapy falls under the category of microwave physical therapy and heat treatment, its effect on the local knee joint is relatively weak, because once the temperature rises, the human body cannot tolerate it. Therefore, at the temperatures currently tolerable to the body, there is no significant therapeutic effect on the knee joint. For this reason, if one intends to treat knee synovitis, sweat therapy is not recommended. Instead, using a simple microwave physiotherapy device for appropriate local treatment may yield better results.
