Your Symptom: Knee Pain

How Fiveways Physiotherapy can help you:

When you see a Fiveways Physiotherapy physiotherapist the first priority will be to identify the cause of your knee pain

• Identify what triggered your pain
  

• Acute Injury
  
  • An acute injury results from a fall, a collision, or twisting of the knee joint.
  • An acute injury may involve
  • Ligament tear or strain
  • Cartilage tear
• Overuse Injury
  
  • An overuse injury results from continuous activity, such as running, jumping, cycling, weight training or bush walking.
    
  • Overuse injuries are more common than acute injuries.
    
  • An overuse injury develops over time
  • An overuse injury is usually related to a range of factors such as your individual body structure and resulting bio-mechanical issues
  • An overuse injury could be caused by your technique, your lifestyle, your footwear, and your running program
  • An overuse injury may involve
    
• Tendon Pain (Patellar tendinopathy) associated with repeated jumping and landing activities
• Pain in the knee cap (Patello-femoral syndrome) commonly occuring when you climb stairs, bend, and squat
• An overuse injury may be aggravated by your footwear.
  
  
• Identifying any underlying cause
  Your Fiveways Physiotherapy physiotherapist will explore a variety of things that may be contributing to, or aggravating the situation
• Your pre and post exercise regime
  
• Below par fitness level
  
• Poor flexibility
• Lower body biomechanics/weakness

• Treat the injury
  

• Mobilisation
  
• Soft tissue management with massage, possibly enhanced with Hivamat usage if your physiotherapist deems it to be useful
  
• Ultrasound, to reduce some of the ache resulting from increased activity
• Targeted strength-building exercises

• Advise you on how to prevent a recurrence

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