Knee Pain
Knee pain is inconvenient at best, and debilitating at ts worse. Solve your knee pain today!
We offer chiropractic and massage therapy to solve knee pain to anyone in Edmonton, Alberta. So you can move, look, and feel 10 years younger with better health and quality of life - without drugs or surgery!
Understanding Knee Pain
Knee pain is very common issue in Edmonton. Understanding the causes and using prevention strategies will go a long way to stopping it.
Travel stairs normally again
Knee pain, stiffness and tightness can make it impossible to go up or down stairs normally!
Return to work and life
Knee pain can make it difficulty to turn walk, get out of a chair and run. That ends today!
Get a good night's sleep
Knee pain affecting your sleep? People keep telling you "wow, you look tired!"? That ends today!
Solving Jumpers Knee
Effective Treatment for Knee Pain
Chiropractic care and massage therapy offers effective treatment options for jumpers knee and other forms of knee pain.
Here's how we can help:
- Chiropractic Adjustments: Gentle adjustments to the elbow joint and surrounding areas can help restore proper alignment, reduce inflammation, and alleviate pain.
- Soft Tissue Therapy: Techniques such as massage, myofascial release, and trigger point therapy target tight muscles and fascia, promoting relaxation and improved circulation.
- Therapeutic Exercise: Customized exercise programs aim to strengthen the muscles around the hips and legs, improve flexibility, and prevent future injuries.
- Acupuncture and IMS: Acupuncture and IMS are effective methods at solving your pain due to tendon problems, such as in tennis elbow.
- Shockwave Therapy: This method of treatment is very effective for tendon pain conditions. Patellar tendinopathy is one of the main conditions that shockwave therapy is commonly used to treat.
- Posture Correction: Poor running and jumping posture can contribute to knee pain. Our chiropractors can provide guidance on proper technique and postures to reduce strain on your knees.
- Lifestyle Modifications: Making changes such as modifying activities that aggravate symptoms, using proper equipment and technique during physical activities, and incorporating rest and recovery can support healing and prevent recurrence of knee pain.
By addressing the underlying causes of your knee pain and providing comprehensive care, our chiropractors and massage therapists strive to help you achieve long-term relief and improved function.
The good news?
We can help solve your tennis elbow!
If you need help solving your elbow pain, schedule an appointment today!
CAUTION
If you have scratches and scrapes on your knees along with bursitis, you should get it evaluated. Infection is a possible cause of bursitis. If an infection has gone through the skin via those scrapes, it can spread quickly and really do some damage.
The treatment options for knee bursitis is pretty short. Here are a few...
- Rest - just stop hitting your elbow and in a few days or weeks it will resolve.
- Ice - ice is nice at reducing inflammation, and reducing pain.
- Acupuncture - This can help reduce the pain associated with bursitis and speed up healing
- Improving lower extremity biomechanics- this will help 'offload' the knee from the activities causing the excessive strain.
- BONUS** If there is an infection, you need antibiotics.
The most important aspect to treating knee bursitis is to stop provoking it. This means stop hitting your knee, or over stressing it. The bursa need times for the swelling to resolve.
Knee Tendonitis
Knee Tendonitis Pain is due to injury and inflammation of the muscles and tendons
Tendonitis in the knee can happen to any of the muscles and tendons that cross the knee. This includes patellar tendinitis, distal quadriceps tendinitis, hamstring tendinitis, pes anserine tendinitis for example.
It is a result from inflammation and microtears in the tendons around the knee joint. Tendonitis is often caused by repetitive stress and overuse, leading to pain, swelling, and restricted movement.
The good news about Knee Tendonitis??
Chiropractic and massage therapy are effective, non-invasive treatments to alleviate your tendonitis pain!
Chiropractic Care
Our chiropractors are highly effective in treating knee tendonitis. They employ a range of techniques to address the underlying causes of tendonitis, including joint manipulation, soft tissue therapies, radial shockwave and ergonomic advice.
Gentle adjustments to the pelvis, hips, knee, and ankle joints and surrounding areas help restore proper alignment and reduce stress on the tendons.
This decreases inflammation, alleviates pain, and improves overall joint function. Additionally, our chiropractors can assess and correct any biomechanical issues or posture problems that may contribute to the strain on the knee.
Stopping the pain in its tracks and prevent tendonitis returning.
Massage Therapy
Our massage therapists are also helpful in speeding up your tendonitis recovery.
By targeting the soft tissues surrounding the knee with techniques such as deep tissue massage, myofascial release, and trigger point therapy, they will help you get better.
These therapies work to relax tight muscles, improve blood circulation, and break down scar tissue, which can reduce pain and facilitate the healing process.
By enhancing the flexibility and strength of your thigh and leg muscles and tendons, massage therapy helps restore normal movement patterns and prevents further injury.
Regular massage sessions can also provide relief from the chronic pain associated with tendonitis, improving your quality of life.
Lets face it, massage feels great, and its nice to be able to walk up stairs without pain, too!
Combined Approach
Combining chiropractic care and massage therapy offers a comprehensive treatment plan for knee tendonitis. They work well together to help you move better, feel better, and live life better
If you have tendonitis, we recommend leveraging the strengths of both chiropractic care and massage therapy so that you can achieve effective and lasting relief, paving the way for a return to an active and pain-free lifestyle.
The meniscus (medial and lateral menisci) are the 'cushions' between your femur and tibia. They provide cushioning, and a smooth surface for the bones to glide on top of.
How do you injure the ACL and MCL?
The ACL and MCL are the most commonly injured ligaments in the knee. This is because they undergo a lot of stress with rotational movements.
For example, imagine you are baking up a storm in the kitchen. You grab the cookie tray out of the oven, and you turn to put them on the counter top.
You've just twisted at your knee, placing stress on the ACL and MCL.
Pop!
Thump...(thats the noise of you hitting the ground)
Now imagine you are playing football, running down the filed. You stiff arm the linebacker, and then spin off of the safety.
When you spin, your foot digs into the ground, and doesn't rotate with the rest of your body. All the rotation occurs in your knee as your foot is planted.
POP!
Torn ACL, and MCL.
This is how many ACL/MCL injuries occur in sport - non contact injuries.
Symptoms from an ACL and MCL Injury
There are many symptoms of an ACL and MCL injury. Here are a few...
- Sharp pain, often giving out.
- Stiffness or difficulty moving your knee.
- Pain that worsens with certain movements or positions, such as turning, twisting and bending.
- Swelling. Sprains result in mild to moderate swelling. A full tear can cause your knee to fully balloon.
- Muscle spasms in your leg, and pain shooting both up your thigh, and down your leg.
At our chiropractic office, we offer a variety of therapies aimed at treating an assortment of knee pain issues. The conditions listed are the most common, however not all encompassing.
Tendonitis, sprains, strains, meniscal tears, bursitis, patellofemoral pain syndrome, patellar tracking syndromes, arthritis...all these problems can be helped!
The following therapies are non-invasive and focus on restoring proper alignment, reducing inflammation, and improving the function of the hip, knee, ankle and foot. Here are some of the therapies we provide that can help:
A Multimodal Approach to Solving Knee Pain
By combining these therapies, our chiropractors aims to provide comprehensive care for individuals suffering from knee pain. Our goal is to address the underlying causes of pain and dysfunction in your knee, restore optimal body biomechanics, movement, function, and empower patients to actively participate in their recovery and long-term wellness.
If you're experiencing knee pain, and would like some help to fix it, give us a call!