alignment
Why are some people knocked knee-ed on one side?
Here is an interesting case of a patient who injured her right knee with a cartilage tear about 15 months ago.
Her hip responded to the right knee injury by twisting in at the thigh and out at the shin. The angle between the upper leg and lower leg is about 25 degrees, and on the left, her normal leg is about 10 degrees.
After one treatment, and some home exercises her knee looked like this:
If you are interested in knee rehabilitation, here is a link
http://www.patellofemoral.org/pfoe/PDFs/Case_study_Mascal_Landers_Powers.pdf
Also a link to last week's blog post:
Stronger hip = no pain in the knee
Look today at how this patient's hip strength and knee alignment have improved. This video below was taken yesterday, She is much stronger and now has no pain.
Cheers and Happy Strong Hip!
Mechanotherapy: how physical therapists’ prescription of exercise promotes tissue repair
bjsm.bmj.com
Mechanotransduction is the physiological process where cells sense and respond to mechanical loads. This paper reclaims the term “mechanotherapy” and presents the current scientific knowledge unde...