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Knee pain is a common issue that can result from various conditions, injuries, arthritis, or “overuse” of one side more than the other. Finding relief for knee pain hinges on correctly identifying the real cause of the pain, a cause which is often overlooked when it comes to knees.
Most traditional treatments fail to address the root cause, and an achy knee can quickly become severe and chronic, often leading to a joint replacement. You won’t despair about your knee pain once you understand why it’s hurting and the best way to remedy it.
One of the most common causes of neck pain is repetitive stress of the neck muscles, tendons, and ligaments within these structures. Individuals who spend most of their day sitting at work, or doing sedentary activities, have a high-risk factor for developing this condition. The risk for developing neck pain is highest for those who sit in poor posture, with the head in a flexed forward position.
Several other causes of neck pain are also posture related, such as herniated discs, whiplash injuries, and Osteoarthritis (developing from the wear and tear of cartilage and bones). Poor posture puts your cervical spine, disks, and muscles in the neck at risk of injury and damage.
Remedies for knee pain are often limited and provide only short-term relief. Fortunately, there is another proven method that focuses on the root cause of pain, resulting in lasting relief for both acute and chronic knee pain.
Ice, heat, and pain relief creams are topical remedies that might feel good when applied but usually wear off in a very short amount of time.
Steroid shots and surgeries are isolated to the location of the pain are unsuccessful when the root cause is elsewhere in the body.
General stretching and massage only provide short-term relief since their focus is on the site of the pain and not the root cause.
Over-the-counter and prescription meds only mask the pain temporarily, which often results in symptoms getting worse over time.
Surgeries, injections, bracing, stretching or strengthening exercises isolated to the knees are often ineffective because the root cause of the pain is usually an imbalance, muscle weakness, or crookedness elsewhere. When you have knee pain, it’s important to look for deeper issues or imbalances in the hips and spine above, or in the feet and ankles below the knee joint itself. As a hinge joint trapped between these complex joints, it takes the brunt of the compensations, and is typically the first to hurt. While you may hurt in the knees, more often than not, your knee pain is being caused by problems elsewhere.
If the natural sitting or standing alignment of the head, shoulders, spine, pelvis, and feet are not balanced and level, then the knee joint becomes compromised. Any twisting, tightness or immobility of the hip or ankle will cause more friction and wear on the knee joint. The knee begins to track improperly and the ACL, LCL, MCL, and meniscus are put in a higher risk for injury. Addressing knee pain must include assessment and correction of the mechanics of the ankle and hip, at a minimum. Crookedness in the shoulders and spine may also place more strain on one knee than the other. The knees will appear knock-kneed or bow-legged, flexed or hyperextended as the imbalances above and below pile up.
For treatment of knee pain to be truly effective, it must focus on correcting posture and straightening the joints from head to toe. Posture Therapy is the only method that provides whole-body posture correction and pain relief with a personal plan for your body.
The PTX Therapy App is the first personal Posture Therapy app with a posture analyzer that can review your posture, consider your personal pains, history, and movement ability, and create a customized program from millions of possibilities. You’ll learn about your posture, then get a unique-to-you program so you can go from crooked to straight, from pain-ful to pain-free.
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