Benefits Of Physical Therapy For Knee Pain Relief

Are you hobbling instead of walking these days?

Do you fear that your active lifestyle is a thing of the past?

Do your knees refuse to do their jobs without causing you intense pain?

If your quality of life has been drastically reduced by knee problems, you may be looking for a path to knee pain relief that doesn’t involve drugs or surgery.

Physical therapy for knee pain relief is a conservative approach that cannot only ease your knee pain but also improve the function of these critical weight-bearing joints. You can learn more by contacting our physical therapist today on 201-746-9966.

Understanding Knee Pain

Your knee joints have a tough job to do. Your knees must bear all of that weight plus the weight of the hips and thighs.

At the same time, these joints must be able to flex so that you can walk, run, dance, sit, play sports, and perform other everyday tasks without losing your balance.

It’s not hard to understand how these demands can produce chronic knee pain over time.

Knee pain can also come about quite suddenly (and intensely) in response to an acute injury.

Causes of Knee Pain

Knee pain can be caused by a great number of problems. Some of these are related to musculoskeletal misalignment, poor posture, and/or excess weight; others occur as the result of natural aging or unhealthy sports/work habits.

Your knee pain may be caused by:

• Osteoarthritis, a painful inflammatory condition involving deteriorated joint cartilage in the knee
• Postural/alignment issues that throw your body off balance, straining the knees
• Bursitis, an inflammation of the friction-reducing sacs surrounding the knee joints
• Tendinitis or stretched ligaments in the knee
• Runner’s knee, instability of the kneecap
• Infections
• Traumatic injuries such as dislocation of the knee joint

Our physical therapist can often tell the cause of your knee pain from its location, and tailor a personalized recovery plan.

Symptoms Of Knee Pain

Typical symptoms of knee pain include difficulty walking up and down stairs, knee instability, knee popping and clicking noises when moved, swelling, knee stiffness, and soreness.

You might be experiencing one, or all of these issues, but if you are experiencing any – the best advice would be to treat the problem now before it gets worse.

Your knee pain might be more uncomfortable or frequent when you do certain activities. This might be high-impact exercise like running or jumping sports like basketball or football, or activities with constant knee bending such as gardening or sitting in uncomfortable positions.

Benefits Of Physical Therapy For Knee Pain Relief

Once our physical therapist has isolated the underlying cause of your hip or knee pain, we can prescribe techniques to help you start feeling — and moving — more like your old self.

Physical therapy for hip or knee pain may start with passive exercises, in which we move your knee for you to increase its pain-free range of motion.

Exercises that reduce the amount of weight on the joints can also be extremely helpful. For instance, we may recommend swimming or water walking as a means of exercising the knees without also forcing them to bear your full weight.

Other types of exercises can also help you overcome your knee pain while improving joint function. Strengthening exercises help by reinforcing the muscles and connective tissues that serve the joint. Corrective exercises and neuromuscular re-education can help you maintain a straighter, more symmetrical posture.

Last but not least, physical therapy offers a variety of helpful modalities beyond exercise. We may treat your knee pain with a range of natural pain relief options that are tailored to your particular knee problem.

Are you ready to reclaim your pain-free mobility through physical therapy?

For Active People Who Want Natural Knee Pain Relief…

We treat athletes, runners, and active people with knee pain regularly at our clinics (Cary, Montclair, Morrisville, Woodcliff Lake), and we understand how frustrating it is to have knee pain stop you from exercising, and playing your favorite sports!

Our clinics are extremely busy as more people put their faith in physical therapy, but we have a limited number of Free Knee Pain Analysis sessions available.

In a Free Knee Pain Analysis you can discover the real reason your niggling knee pain won’t go away, get the fastest way to recover and return to the workouts, sports, and busy lifestyle that you enjoy!

There are only 5 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

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