[pct-l] Sore knee

[Jeffrey Olson]

I totally agree.  15  years ago I was playing tennis four or five times 
a week and my knees started to swell and I devolved to hobbling and 
lessening the number and intensity of my workouts.

I visited a sports medicine doc at the Univ of Washington who had a 
bunch of magic wands in his tongue depressor jar.  I wondered why.

He pushed and pulled and twisted and had me stand and bend and in the 
end he said, "Jeff, the problem with your knees is tight buns."

I laughed out loud and he explained that my gluteous maximus and 
hamstring muscle groups were so tight that the they were not doing their 
jobs.  The consequence was that my knees were trying to perform 
functions they weren't designed to do.

He gave me two exercises that cured my knee problems in two weeks.

That said, I had minor foot problems as well, and reading up on foot 
stuff, I self-diagnosed plantar fascitis issues.  I went back to him and 
he asked me how long I'd done the two exercises.  When I said 
religiously for a couple weeks til the knee pain went away, and then 
less religiously, he said that if I'd've done them another two weeks my 
foot pain would have gone away.  Same issue - the knees and feet were 
reacting to the two tight muscles groups.

I did the exercises again and the foot pain went away.  Hence the magic 
wands.

Jeffrey Olson
Rapid City, SD

On 5/19/2012 6:16 PM, Dennis Phelan wrote:
> The knee is one of the most complex joints in our body and pain can result
>
> from a series of alignment problems.  Usually it is the feet, but in many
> cases the feet are out of line due to leg muscles.  Bottom line, go see a
> sports doctor who can figure it out and prescribe the correct supports and
>
> exercises.
>