Your knees function amazingly well when moving forward and backward. What they don’t like is stresses side to side and in rotational movements. Unfortunately, the way our posture affects the tension, tightness, and position in the muscles of our back, pelvis, and legs lead to our knees having too much stress placed on them in these unwanted directions.
More often than not, you don’t need to get “stronger” to decrease your pain. You need to learn how to move and use muscles in a better way. Postural Restoration-based exercises can help teach you how to control and move your body in a better pattern of movement so that your knees are not being forced to manage stresses in side-to-side and rotational movements when they shouldn’t have to. As you remove these stresses, the pressure and pain will begin to subside as well.
Patients with non-traumatic and/or chronic knee pain may also benefit from custom orthotics to help position their feet and legs to further support the better movements patterns, which you will be taught during treatment with a ProActive knee pain physical therapist in Burley. Contact us today to begin the road to recovery from your knee pain.