Is Knee pain Slowing you down?
- Is knee stiffness in the morning slowing you down?
- Are you having to take the stairs one at the time?
- "There's nothing you can do about it, it's just Old Age", Right?
- You fear & worry that you wont be able to walk, drive, do stairs and be yourself anymore?
- Do I need a knee replacement, is it osteoarthritis or just something simple?
- What is it going to be like in 5/10/15 years from now?
- Are you having to take the stairs one at the time?
- "There's nothing you can do about it, it's just Old Age", Right?
- You fear & worry that you wont be able to walk, drive, do stairs and be yourself anymore?
- Do I need a knee replacement, is it osteoarthritis or just something simple?
- What is it going to be like in 5/10/15 years from now?
Knee pain is often something simple,
sometimes it's not but either way, we'll help you feel your best!
sometimes it's not but either way, we'll help you feel your best!
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Joelle Fordham M.Ost (D.O) & Associates
Registered Osteopath and Fine Tuner of Sore Bodies
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We understand that knee pain can be scary.
That joint stiffness when you first get up, the sharp pain when you put weight on, having to do the stairs one at the time, having to rest to finish that walk... it's not what you want. Then hearing from your GP that it's probably osteoarthritis, or wear & tear which means the same thing, and there's nothing much that can be done about it - a default answer (in our experience) if you are over a certain age, is simply not good enough! If you are over a certain age - make that 25 to 30 years old(!) - chances are that an X-rays will start showing normal signs of wear and tear in the knee, it does not however mean that this is causing the pain you are experiencing. This is a common assumption that we see all too often: that if wear & tear is visualised in an X-ray, it must be the cause of symptoms. There is simply no way to prove that unless a local anesthetic is injected directly into the joint space. In our experience, even when mild to moderate osteoarthritis is seen on imaging, the pain is often very easily managed with conservative treatment and some remedial exercises. Knees are mechanically very simple joints with limited planes of movement - meaning that they can bend and straighten but are not designed to move in nearly every direction, like the ankle and the hip joint and are therefore more limited in their ability to compensate. In our experience, knee pain will often be an early symptom when movement restrictions creep into the foot and ankle complex or into the hip, pelvis or lower back. Such movement restriction can change the way you use your leg, and can lead -for example - to a twisting movement in the leg on walking which creates an abnormal movement and load through the knee stressing the surrounding tissues and causing pain. In such cases, you can experience knee pain wihtout having anything organically wrong with your knee joint, and exercises aimed at strenghtening the knee may only be partially effective, whereas addressing the whole mechanical chain will typically lead to better outcomes. Of course, as is often the case, you may have some early signs of wear & tear in the knee AND some mechanical compensations overlaying it and it can be difficult to see the wood from the trees if you don't know what you are looking for, but that's what we are here for! |
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Inflammatory Arthritis
NOTE: Inflammatory types of Arthritis such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, Reactive Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis and other types of Axial Spondyloarthritis are very different conditions to the "arthritis" related to wear and tear.
Osteopathic treatment can be effective with helping to manage the symptoms as mechanical pain often co-exists with these conditions. For safety reasons, we will typically exclude manipulative therapy from our treatment protocol when a flair of inflammatory arthritis is reported or suspected but don't worry, there's still a lot of effective techniques in our tool bag!
Osteopathic treatment can be effective with helping to manage the symptoms as mechanical pain often co-exists with these conditions. For safety reasons, we will typically exclude manipulative therapy from our treatment protocol when a flair of inflammatory arthritis is reported or suspected but don't worry, there's still a lot of effective techniques in our tool bag!
