How to Spot Knee Pain and Assess the Situation for the Better

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Your knee hurts. Maybe it’s causing you to limp, maybe it feels weak, and maybe it’s not intense, but there’s a constant low-level pull feeling there.

In any case, you know something’s not right.

And you might have received different treatments for it — from physiotherapy to massage, chiropractic, acupuncture, and others; but the progress isn’t quite what you want it to be.

Or maybe you experience some pain relief for a few hours or a day or two after your treatments, but then it goes back to the way it used to be.

Not helpful.

What Can Go Wrong with the Knee?

The knee is a simple hinge joint. Just opens forward and back. But despite its simplicity, there is a large number of things that can cause knee pain, like:

· Knee arthritis

· ACL tear

· MCL tear

· Meniscus tear

· Patellofemoral syndrome

· Patellar tendinitis

So when people ask me “what exercises should I do for knee pain?”, I answer “knee pain is a symptom. Not a diagnosis.”