Video: Knee Pain Signals

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Avoid running on a treadmill if suffering knee pain. Learn about paying attention to your body when knee pain arises with tips from an exercise therapist in this free health video.

- Knee Anatomy

Video Transcript

Hello, my name is Anthony Baron Kirk. I'm going to talk about a program that we can set up to actually address this knee pain in this overall lower body postural dysfunction. So just a quick note. When we're dealing with knee pain, the best thing to not do is go and just run on a treadmill or just kind of avoid knee pain thinking that if you just work through it that pain will go away. Always remind yourself that your body is an amazing, thinking capacity. So if you have knee pain, that's an alarm system of your body telling you that there's something not right. So pay attention to it. There's lots of information out there these days. You can really address these things and come out much stronger and better in everything that you do, including just the exercise that you're choosing. So our program that I'm going to kind of put forth today is first foam rolling. This is a technique called self myofascial release. If you remember in a previous clip, I talked about the IT band which is a thickening of this myofascial tissue. So what we do when we foam roll is we deactivate areas. You think about these tension spots or adhesions, areas in the tissue and the muscle that have a tendency to either be injured from previous experiences or just too tight. So this is the first technique where we want to deactivate. Second, we will go through some basic stretching techniques to lengthen these tissues out. Third, we'll go through just a few basic movement patterns some corrective exercise strategies that we can actually strengthen the areas that we're weak. Again as we talked about the weak glute complex. Some basic core strength. And you can really improve your overall gait pattern and movement patterns throughout your day.

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Knee Pain Signals

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