What's the best way to get rid of knee pain?

The best way to combat knee pain is a multi-modal approach which includes:

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1. Full evaluation and diagnosis. Knee pain can come in many forms and the BEST way to treat it depends on what is going on with the knee. We want to test and rule out ligamentous or meniscus damage.

2. Corrective exercise to address the movement fault or joint biomechanical fault. This can be at the low back, hip, knee or ankle. Knee pain can come from any joint within the kinetic chain. These need to be the correct exercises based off the knee diagnosis, not just any exercise!

3. Hands on manual treatment. The research says it over and over. Best and lasting success rates come when proper corrective exercise is combined with Manual Treatment. Manual treatment includes, dry needling, cupping therapy, electro-dry needling, soft tissue work, mobilizations with movement just to a name a few. These techniques themselves can often take majority of your symptoms away in just the first couple of visits. 

4. Correct the movement pattern; your body tries to avoid the painful movement often causing a chain reaction in the body. Once the knee is pain free, we need to get the knee, as well as the joints above and below moving correctly to prevent future pain and bulletproof the knee.

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Why hasn’t your knee pain gone away yet?

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1. You went to a different practitioner that wasn’t specialized in knees or didn’t have the time to perform the required manual treatment.

2. You simply have let your knee rest without treating the root cause and therefore the knee pain is still there. 

3. You looked up strengthening or stretching videos online that may or may not have been of benefit for your specific knee diagnosis.

4. Or lastly, you haven’t tried anything for your knee pain! 

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Why choose RTS Physio to address your knee pain?

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This is our bread and butter, we have the results to back it up! Our model has taken people on the verge of surgery and returning them to training and daily activity pain free. Our model focuses on three phases:

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• Phase 1: Eliminating the symptoms of pain. Utilize a variety of manual treatments as identified in the literature. 

• Phase 2: Correct the root cause of the pain. Combination of manual treatment to address both primary and secondary imbalances and sources of pain. 

• Phase 3: Bulletproof the knee by loading the non-painful joint and regain trust that you can get back to using your knee like you did prior to your injury. 

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Our clinic provides one-on-one treatment for the hour allowing our knee specialist to not only take a thorough examination of your knee but also have time to provide a hands-on individualized approach to treatment to get you back to your active lifestyle.

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