Do you suffer from knee pain during an activity? Have you tried every brace, cream, footwear, and gimmick out there? Are you ready to get better by strategically attacking the cause instead of looking for a quick fix? See our Doctors of Physical therapy, let us perform a detailed assessment to identify your problem, and implement a treatment plan geared towards helping you get where you want to be.
Knee pain is common among all age groups and genders. The pain can be caused by a variety of biomechanical factors that are causing your dysfunction. In fact, knee pain tends to be a multifactorial problem commonly associated with strength deficits throughout the posterior chain (muscles in the back of your leg). These deficits can create an improper angle at the hip in relation to the knee or simply create muscle imbalances with increased shear forces on specific structures of the knee. Our bodies were made to move, and it will find ways to move even if the proper muscles are not being utilized, which creates compensatory movement strategies. If this occurs over a long period of time or through a repeated functional task such as walking, running, or climbing stairs, then these maladaptive movements are magnified, and you can end up with pain.
Another plausible cause to knee pain is the type of footwear and the support it offers in relation to your native anatomy, more specifically, the arch of the foot and position of the heel to the lower leg. Footwear can be a two-sided coin depending on whether the shoe offers too much or too little support. The position of the foot during weight acceptance, mid stance, and push-off are similar to how the angle of the hip affects the knee. It does so by the way the forces are transferred up the chain through the knee.
The big picture here is that many different factors can cause knee pain. Sure, you can have arthritis and tendonitis, but what is the cause of this? How do you know where to start? That’s where the experts at First Choice Physical Therapy come in. Let us analyze your problem so that we can help you get better.
Call today, and let’s get your problem solved! 850-248-1600 – Dr. John Gray PT, DPT