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Help please! i don't know why when my knees are bent for more than 5 minutes they start to ache and i need to crack them?

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Dr. Harold Bacchus answered

Specializes in Occupational Medicine

Knee pain: stretch slowly, add moist heat, massage, Ibuprofen

Answered 6/25/2014

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