Knee Pain

For most people over the age of 30 they've experienced pain in and around one or both knees. What bothers me the most about our health care system is that most doctors are going to diagnose the condition with a term of "arthritis." This pretty much tells me that the doc isn't up on his musculo-skeletal treatments. Now of course there are other diagnoses but how many people do you know that have been told that they have arthritis?

How it works....
The muscles are designed to first move bones and there second job is to absorb force. Day to day movement produces various forms of force....some of it intense and some time light. Either way, that force should be absorbed by the muscles. If the muscles can't absorb the force then that force will continue to travel to the joint. When that happens it puts all sorts of stress on the ligaments, the tendons and the joint itself. The ligaments, tendons and the joint isn't designed to absorb force so stress is produced which brings about inflammation. As time goes on that stress continues and now the bones begin to adapt to that stress which will show on a X-Ray as degeneration or arthritis.

You see, where you are feeling the pain ISN'T where the damage is - it's where the pain ended up! The damage is in an area away from the pain spot - the knee pain that we are using here as an example is where the pain ended up not where it began. So if you can find the area of damage and where it began you can take away the pain in the knee.

Short circuit....
The muscle begins to break down when it doesn't get a true nerve stimulation (electrical supply)
and the muscle slowly begins to shorten. Once the muscle shortens it loses it's ability to absorb force not only can it set you up for injury in that muscle but also in a nearby joint.

A muscle once gets its nerve supply will only "turn-on" or "turn-off." If it can't turn on fast enough it loses its ability to absorb force.

Because this example sets you up for inflammation most medical doctors will give you an anti-inflammatory medication. Do they work....heck yea, but they only work until the chemistry stays in the body which is about 4 to 6 hours. Then you have to start it up all over again.

So if you are on medication for knee pain for arthritis do yourself a favor and find out where the pain is coming from. Once identified and properly treated the pain will go away.

If you have interest in learning more feel free to go to www.ConwayClinic.com to read more about how you can be helped.