5 Exercises For Knee Pain
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Most of our patients' knee pain comes down to limitations in mobility negatively impacting their joints ability to distribute stress coupled with a lack of strength in specific muscles negatively impacting the amount of stress your joint can tolerate. Some may call it patellofemoral pain syndrome, runner’s knee, or even arthritis. Regardless, all that matters is your knee hurts and something needs to be done for you to get back to the sports and activities you love.
What To Do About Your Knee Pain:
You will find that some of these exercises are very specific to the knee, while others strengthen surrounding areas. This approach is consistent with everything we do because we recognize that most, if not all, orthopedic issues stem from more than just the area of discomfort. Give these exercises a try, if some feel much harder than others, you may have found a factor that may be contributing to your knee pain.
Split Squat: quad strength, great for patella tendinopathy relief
2. Hamstring bridge: hip mobility, hamstring strength to reinforce knee motion
3. Reverse nordic: quad flexibility, hip flexor tightness, deceleration capability
4. Bent knee side plank: core and glute strength (average adult should be able to hold for 80-85s)
5. Step down: quad strength, quad flexibility
Conclusion
These exercises serve as entry points and can easily be scaled up or down based on your starting point and based on your end goals. If you are interested in hearing about how we can bridge the gap between where you currently are and where you are trying to go, book a free discovery call!
