Consult with a Physiotherapist to Find Relief for Your Hip and Knee Pains
Looking for Relief? Physiotherapy Has You Covered
Does nagging hip and knee pain keep you from completing everyday tasks with ease? If you’ve been living with chronic aches and pains in these areas, you may benefit from regular physiotherapy treatment.
A skilled physiotherapist can help to improve your daily quality of life by targeting your problem areas to decrease pain and boost mobility over time. And, they can help you find out if a brace might be able to provide you immediate relief!
Do you or a loved one experience the following? Pain and discomfort when getting up from a chair? Difficulty walking down to the corner store? Limitations going up and down the stairs? Well if so, there’s a good chance that physiotherapy can help to ease your pain, stiffness, and weakness.
Call our offices today to learn more about how we can help to reduce your chronic hip or knee pain and be sure to schedule a free initial consultation with our physiotherapist.
Why did my hip and knee pain develop?
The hips and knees are the largest joints in the human body and do much of the work in supporting your body weight.
They must both work together in close coordination to keep your body mobile. However, they often are affected by injury, arthritis and other common conditions.
In some cases, knee and hip problems can be treated with certain exercises or pain relief medication. But it is also very common for hip and knee problems to worsen over time, making them difficult to treat with over-the-counter solutions.
Common conditions resulting in hip and knee pain
While each person is different, many of our physiotherapy clients experience recurring hip and knee pain as a result of a few different causes.
These include:
Core Muscle Injury:
Notice a pain in your groin area after a weekend of playing ball with your pals? If so, you may be suffering from a core muscle injury. This means a strain or tear of the muscles and soft tissues in your lower abdomen area. Rest can help this common injury, however, we recommend scheduling an appointment with our physiotherapist if the hip pain lasts for several days to a week or more.
“Runner’s Knee”
An unstable kneecap can lead to chronic knee pain. This condition is known as patellofemoral syndrome or “runner’s knee.”
Bursitis
If you notice recurring pain on the outside of your hip, buttocks, or thigh, there’s a good chance that you have bursitis! That means inflammation of the cushioning pillow-like sacs that work to keep your tendons from rubbing against your bone. Commonly related to age, targeted physiotherapy treatments often relieve pain due to bursitis.
Sprains, Strains, and Ruptures
The knee and hip joints can move thanks to muscles, tendons and ligaments. However, repetitive motion or acute injuries can cause muscle damage (a strain) or ligament damage (a sprain). Athletes are vulnerable to ruptures of the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament).
Here is our Physiotherapist demonstration how we can check the ligaments of the knee!
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Fractures
A fall, car accident or sporting accident can result in broken bones in the knee. The risk of suffering a knee fracture increases as we age, as many older adults develop osteoporosis. But have hope – Physiotherapy can help to reduce pain and inflammation after a fracture and increase mobility over time.
Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is a degeneration of the cartilage that normally keeps the bone ends in a joint from rubbing together. The resulting friction causes chronic pain and irritation.
Meniscus Tear
The meniscus is a tough, rubbery piece of cartilage in the knee. It works as a shock absorber between the thigh bone and shinbone area. The meniscus is commonly with a sudden twist of your knee while playing sports or attempting other strenuous moves. This can cause intense and long-lasting pain. Regular visits with our physiotherapist can help to reduce your symptoms.
Ready to get started on a treatment plan and find relief now?
Depending on the severity of your injury, physiotherapy can provide a safe, non-invasive and holistic treatment option.
Physiotherapy treatments for hip and knee pain should be multimodal. This means it includes some combination of stretching and strengthening, balance training, joint mobilization, electrical stimulation and more.
Our physiotherapist will work with you to tailor a treatment plan that works to fit your specific lifestyle needs. This includes a comprehensive home exercise routine that will help you to maintain a better quality of life between appointments.
The sooner you seek physiotherapy for knee or hip pain, the better. Research shows that patients who rehab their hip or knee pain with physiotherapy within 15 days of symptom onset have less need for pain injections, medications, or surgical intervention.
Give us a call today to schedule your free initial physiotherapy consultation.
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