Arthroscopic Knee Surgery for Torn Meniscus - Scoop me

interesteddad
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:44:03 +0000

splashmom:

I’m not a doctor and, even if I were, I wouldn’t know what’s going on with your knee injury or what treatment makes sense. Whether or not it requires surgery, all of us will enjoy much better long-term knee health with exercise and fitness. The knee is where the pain shows up, but the issues are often elsewhere – specifically the ankle and mostly the hip.

Trainer Mike Boyle uses an analogy. If he puts a rope around your neck and pulls on it, you are going to complain of pain in your neck. When he stops pulling on the rope, the pain will go away. The cause of the pain was never the neck. That’s just where you felt the pain.

Same thing with knee. The muscles that attach to your knee also attach to your hip. If the hip is not moving properly (and it isn’t in most of us), those muscles are going to be pulling on your knee just like the rope pulling on your neck in the analogy above. So, whenever you are talking about the knee (either specific rehab or just general strengthening), you have to include hip (and ankle) exercises. For many of us, “knee” pain goes away entirely with improved fitness and specifically fitness that address the hips.