Medical Knee Pain
Summary
Medical knee pain is a common injury that may occur when running, doing CrossFit, skiing/snowboarding, playing sports, or even jumping. When impact occurs on the knee, the surrounding muscles engage to decrease tension on the ligaments and meniscus cartilage. If the muscles are weak or not firing correctly, injury can happen.
Cause
The most common cause of inside knee pain is an injury to the medial collateral ligament (MCL). This ligament runs up the inside of the knee joint and helps to stabilize the inside of the knee. If the MCL has been injured, you will feel pain on the inner knee.
Meniscus injury can also cause pain to the inner knee, when impact or tension occurs on the knee the meniscus can be pinched or even tear.
Effects
When the knee has been injured ligaments may be pinched or twisted causing a popping or clicking sensation through the knee. Compensation will also occurs for the loss of stability in the knee joint by putting strain and causing tension through the ankles or the hips.
Treatment
Structural Physiotherapy: Manual corrective techniques are performed to focus on balancing the muscle fascia systems of the body to improve range of motion, posture, and support pain free movement.
Postural Alignment Therapy: designed specifically for your body, re-patterning exercises are a great way to promote proper body position and connect the brain to muscle pathway letting the muscles and fascia relearn correct posture and movement.
Mobility Therapy: at Structure we have a great selection of self care mobility tools used to balance join mechanics, promote proper gliding between muscles and connective tissue, and re-educate neuromuscular pathways that can limit range of motion of the body.
Kinetic Taping: special kinesiology tape is used to decrease pain, decompress tissue, and provide support while allowing for full range of motion.
Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation: IASTM is a great way for the therapist to interact with connective tissues and the nerve roots that innervate them. Using a stainless-steel tool with a treatment edge to enhance specific desired results from the tissues the tool is being applied to. IASTM is used to help with pain mitigation, promotion of tissue glide, regulation of nervous tissue, and fluid capture.
Rockpods (cupping): Cupping has been around for a long time and has been used to help with pain, inflammation, blood flow, relaxation, and well-being. At Structura we use silicone pods as a way to decompress through tissues and improve neurosensory effects (I.e body awareness, improved tactile acuity, perception and control).
Rockfloss: compression band therapy is a manual technique that we use to help improve range of motion, fluid regulation in the body, pain mitigation, and improve recovery.
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