Earlier this month I had a gentleman come in complaining of long term (5+ years!!) pain in his knee. He'd had 2 rounds of surgery on the knee with no improvement.
During my assessment I found that he had an even longer history of lower back pain and hip pain.
So rather than focus on his knee, we focused on his back, I taught him a couple of little tricks and . . . he walked out with no knee pain. Me, his wife, their friend, we were all in tears at the transformation.
All that time, pain and surgery and no one had ever taken the time to listen to him or look at the connections.
No one had ever done a thorough, clinical assessment.
Pain comes limping in
Knees and backs make a fantastic team – and they often pick up the slack for each other so they always have to be assessed together.
When you have a painful knee you unconsciously change how you walk. You stop extending it fully and using all the muscles and flexibility in that leg. But you still have to move forward.
So your lower back “picks up” the leg to help.
Which means your back works harder than usual.
Eventually, if your knee doesn’t return to “normal” function your back continues working too hard. And starts to complain. And complaining muscles feel sore.
Put more “miles on the clock” it can start to complain. Which makes living the active life you came to Spain for, more uncomfortable.
5 steps to success
If you’ve been having treatment with no improvement here are my 5 top reasons why:
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