Has anyone had their knee joints attacked?

My first posting. I have osteoarthritis which my knee pain has been attributed to in the past. But in the past year, especially since diagnosed a few months ago the pain is so terrible that I have to walk with my knee bent. Going to a orthopedic specialist soon, but wonder if there is anyway to know if it is from the disease and if they can do anything about it. I have already had the shot in the knee (didn't work).

Thank you!

I have advanced osteoarthritis in my knees, meaning no cartilage, yet I almost never experience any pain or swelling. Luck? Physiology? Inexplicable phenomena? No. Over the last twenty years I've been studying a unique therapeutic exercise system with a local genius of a chiropractor. In fact, I'm the only person who knows nearly all his exercises and the thinking behind them.

Suffice it to say, the last poster alludes to the REAL cause both of osteoarthritis and continuing pain/inflammation from it (at least according to the thinking behind these exercises I've been studying):

"When extremely anxious i can't walk, knees hurt a lot!"

Think about it. What happens when one gets anxious? For me, my quadriceps contract. Release the contraction, release the cause both of osteoarthritis and subsequent pain.

Yoga and stretching actually does the OPPOSITE strangely enough. Attempting to stretch a muscle that is contracted through tension (or any other cause) will cause the muscle(s) to oppose the stretch as a protective mechanism. Yes, you'll get some stretch, but you also risk tearing muscle or connective tissue.

I can't reveal all the thinking behind that which I've learned, but suffice it to say it flies in the face thousands of years of asana yoga thinking.