How to Permanently End Back of Knee Joint Pain and Joint Pain in the Hip Without Living on Joint Pain Medication
You know the exact moment it hits.
You stand up from the couch and feel that familiar stab behind your knee.
You take one step down the stairs and your hip screams like someone jammed a knife in the joint.
You reach for the ibuprofen bottle again… and hate yourself for it.
If you’re suffering from back of knee joint pain or joint pain in the hip, you’ve probably been told the same tired advice:
“Take joint pain medication, try physical therapy, lose a little weight on your own, and if that doesn’t work… we’ll talk about surgery.”
Here’s what they’re not telling you:
For the majority of people under 70, back of knee joint pain and joint pain in the hip are not “wear and tear” diseases that just happen.
They are mechanical overload diseases caused by excess body weight crushing your joints 5,000–10,000 times a day.
And the fastest, most effective way to reverse them is not more joint pain medication.
It’s rapid, medically supervised weight loss.
At Just Lose Weight MD (Rockville • Takoma Park • Fairfax), we’ve helped thousands of patients throw away their joint pain medication for good — not by masking symptoms, but by removing the root cause: the extra pounds destroying their knees and hips.
Exactly Why You Have Back of Knee Joint Pain
The space behind your knee is a crowded neighborhood:
- Hamstrings tendons
- Popliteus tendon
- Gastrocnemius muscle
- Baker’s cyst (a fluid-filled sack that swells when the knee is angry)
- Nerves and blood vessels
When you carry extra weight, every step sends a shockwave through the knee joint. The joint gets irritated → produces extra fluid → the Baker’s cyst swells → presses on everything behind the knee → burning, tightness, and sharp back of knee joint pain.
Patients walk in with MRIs showing:
- Large Baker’s cysts
- Hamstring tendinopathy
- Early osteoarthritis
- Meniscus tears radiating pain to the back
All of these improve — dramatically — when the weight comes off.
Exactly Why You Have Joint Pain in the Hip
- Your hip is a precision ball-and-socket joint meant to glide smoothly.
Add 40–60 extra pounds and suddenly it’s grinding under hundreds of extra pounds of force.
Common diagnoses we see daily:
- Osteoarthritis of the hip
- Labral tears
- Trochanteric bursitis (side-of-hip pain)
- Groin pain from cartilage loss
- Referred pain from belly fat pulling the pelvis forward and stressing the joint
Again — joint pain medication only quiets the fire for a few hours. It does nothing about the fire’s fuel: excess weight.
The Science: How Many Pounds of Pressure You’re Removing
- Every 1 pound of body weight lost = 4 pounds less force on the knee, up to 10 pounds less on the hip
- Lose 30 pounds → remove 120–300 pounds of crushing force with every step
- Lose 50 pounds → remove 200–500 pounds of force
- Lose 70 pounds → remove up to 700 pounds of force per step
No joint pain medication on the planet can do that.
Don’t Let Another Year Be Stolen by Pain
- Every month you wait, your cartilage continues to wear down.
But every week you’re on our program, you’re giving your joints a fighting chance to heal.
Stop covering up back of knee joint pain and joint pain in the hip with joint pain medication that doesn’t fix anything.
Start fixing the real problem — today.
- Call or text right now:
- Takoma Park: (301) 434-0075
- Rockville: (301) 603-2811
Fairfax: (703) 543-9490
Or book online 24/7 → JustLoseWeightMD.com
Your first visit includes a free body composition scan that will show you exactly how much pain you’re carrying — and exactly how fast we can make it disappear.
You don’t have to live like this anymore.