Live Hip and Knee Pain Free
Hip joint pain and knee pain can interrupt your normal routine and daily activities, particularly if you are suffering with both.
Has exercising become nearly impossible? Is it difficult to get up in the morning or from a seated position due to pain in your hip? Does hip pain make a restful night difficult to achieve? Do your knees feel painful while sitting, driving or walking? Have you experienced the sensation that your knees may buckle leading to a fall?
Physical therapy is able to provide safe and lasting relief of your hip and knee pain without harmful medication or surgery. Call our friendly staff for an appointment today at Progressive Medical Fitness.
Physical therapy addresses hip and knee pain
Our Northport physical therapy team will identify hip and/or knee misalignment or joint damage, as well as conducting a thorough review of all aspects of your locomotion (gait, posture, etc) and lower extremity strength.
Following your complete physical exam, our physical therapy team will prescribe a targeted therapy treatment plan designed to eliminate unnatural stress and strain on your joints. Optimizing joint function to restore normal daily activity will be the focus.
A unique exercise plan will be developed to stabilize weak hip and/or knee tissues leading to relief of joint pain. Your individual condition will be addressed with a unique exercise plan.
We will prescribe an exercise plan targeted to your condition. If you are suffering from patella (kneecap) pain, the most recent research indicates that exercises that strengthen both the hips and knees achieves the greatest success.
Core-strengthening exercises may also be a part of your targeted exercise plan. Core-strengthening exercises build the muscles of your lower back, abdomen and pelvis to improve your posture and evenly distribute weight bearing on both sides of your body.
Our certified physical therapists provide targeted treatments, such as joint mobilization, to address your pain. Soft tissue treatments restore normal joint movement that relieves the pain of hip and /or knee tissue that have been compromised due to damage or injury.
A range of physical therapy treatments available at Progressive Medical Fitness can greatly reduce or even eliminate your hip and knee pain. Alleviating the need for ongoing treatment with medication or costly and time consuming surgical procedures.
The hips and knees team
Hip and/or knee pain may develop due to a problem in the joint itself or resulting from a complication in another part of the body.
The hip, knee and ankle joint form the kinetic chain of your lower extremity. This combination of weight-bearing joints works in unison to facilitate proper body locomotion and erect posture. A problem in one joint may disrupt the delicate balance between the entire kinetic chain. For example, a problem with your hip joint may cause undue stress on your knee joint leading to deterioration of both joints.
Your hip is a complex, weight-bearing, ball-and-socket joint that is comprised of muscles and tissues that work together for stability and mobility.
On the other hand, your knee is a hinge joint, so it only glides in a forward and back motion. The force on your knees is equivalent to 1 1/2 times your body weight. Your hips and knees work in unison to allow us to dance, run, walk and perform our daily activities.
Hip and knee pain can be experienced separately, and if left untreated, over time one can affect the other.
Causes of hip and knee pain
Often, the same disorders and injuries affect both the hips and knees.
Habitual use of the hip and knee joints lead to overuse injuries such as tendinitis and repetitive strain. Hips and knees can also suffer acute injuries, such as breaks, sprains, and dislocation. A pinched sciatic nerve, the nerve that begins in your lower back and travels through the leg, can also lead to pain to both joints. Lopsidedness in your posture while standing, sitting or walking may cause abnormal strain and damage in your hips and knees, causing painful symptoms or eventually leading to osteoarthritis.
Each individual joint is prone to particular conditions. Labral tears, an injury to cartilage of the hip, causes hip pain. Bursitis, inflammation of the bursa sacs in the knee, causes knee pain.
Hip injuries often lead to instability in the pelvis that causes pain in the knees and vice versa. Your gluteus medius muscle controls the position of your knees as you walk or perform other daily activities. If your gluteus medius is weak and your hip flexors are tight this can lead to abnormal positioning of your thighs. This can cause painful problems such as iliotibial band friction syndrome or patellofemoral stress syndrome, or even ACL injury.
Take your first steps toward pain-free movement today!
Contact Progressive Medical Fitness in Northport today to begin taking the steps to relieve chronic hip and knee pain. Our team of caring physical therapists will help you take a stand against pain!