How To Fix Knee Pain When Bending For Active People

It’s a new year, and this is traditionally a time when people set health goals – lose weight, exercise more, eat better, or sleep better.

Even you, as someone who already lives an active lifestyle, have got ambitions for 2023 which might include hitting a personal best in the gym, setting your fastest 5K time, or becoming a better athlete in your sport.

But what do you do if knee pain, particularly sharp pain when bending your knee is getting in the way?

Do you ignore it and hope it goes away?

Do you take some painkillers to mask knee pain?

Do you push through the pain?

Often these are the first thing people try, but it RARELY fixes knee pain when bending long-term.

We treat athletes, and active people with knee pain regularly at our clinics (Cary, Montclair, Morrisville, Woodcliff Lake) every day, and we understand how desperate you are to get natural knee pain relief, and get back to exercise quickly!

What Causes Knee Pain When Bending?

You might be experiencing pain in your knee when bending, but in most cases, the root cause of the problem is elsewhere.

This pain might hit you when you are jumping, running, or squatting. Anything where the knee is bending.

So if you go to someone who only looks at your knee, to fix your knee pain – that’s probably not a good sign.

Our team evaluates a person’s entire body because knee pain is often caused by forces from above (your hips, pelvis, and above), and below (the force through your shins, feet, and ankles).

In our experience, more than 75% with knee pain have an issue elsewhere which is actually the thing you fix.

If you spend all your time focused on treating your knee directly, it’ll always keep coming back because it’s actually caused by something else (such as your hips, or feet).

How Do You Fix Knee Pain When Bending?

To fix knee pain when bending, we strongly recommend that you seek help from knee pain experts who can help you uncover the underlying cause of your knee pain.

This means you don’t spend months, if not years, battling knee pain when bending reducing you to less and less activity, and more reliance on painkillers (or more drastic medical solutions like injections)!

Every person who visits our physical therapy clinics is different, but here are some strategies that can be used to stop knee pain when bending.

Physical Therapy For Knee Pain Relief

Physical therapy helps you quickly get to the root cause of your knee pain, through a variety of tests and evaluations.

This ends your confusion and gives you a clear treatment plan to end knee pain, improve mobility and strengthen the knee to prevent future injury.

Manual Therapy For Knee Pain 

Treatment can include manual therapy for pain relief, increased movement, and treatment of injuries.

This is hands-on treatment from an expert physical therapist in our team who’ve helped hundreds of sporty people get back to doing the things they love.

Cupping For Knee Pain

We also offer cupping which relaxes tight muscles and releases trigger points in the body that may be creating pain in your knee when bending.

If you want fast pain relief, cupping can be incredibly powerful (and totally medication-free) – Some patients with myofascial pain report resolution of pain after just one session!

Dry Needling For Knee Pain

Now this one might sound a bit scary – but dry needling is very safe, and another great way to get drug-free pain relief for your knee. Dry needling helps to accelerate recovery and healing of the underlying muscle, tendons, ligaments, even cartilage when used appropriately.

It can also help reduce painful muscle spasms, and decrease localized swelling to get you back to your favorite activities quicker!

Struggling With Knee Pain When Bending?

If your knee hurts when bending, don’t the three options above sound better than resorting to painkillers after workouts?

Doesn’t that sound better than struggling to run, jump and exercise without constantly worrying about your knee pain flaring up?

Doesn’t that sound better than playing your sport less because your knee can’t handle it?

We think so.

And we think you will too.

What to do now…

Our clinics are extremely busy at the moment, as people are seeking out our knee pain experts, but we have a limited number of Free Knee Pain Analysis sessions available.

In a Free Knee Pain Analysis you can discover the root cause of your annoying knee pain, find the quickest way to recover, and get back to the sports, workouts, and active lifestyle that you love!

There are only 8 available, so complete our simple webform (it only takes 30 seconds) or call our team on 201-746-9966.

Other Resources For Natural To Relieve Your Knee Pain

Read our blog –3 Reasons Why You’re Still Having Knee Pain And Can’t Run, Bike, or Squat

Read our blog – 10 Best Quad Exercises For Bad Knees (From experts!)

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