Knee Pain
For people over the age of 30 knee pain slowly becomes an issue of day to day live. There are many different types of knee pain that affect people. Over use, direct trauma, degeneration, past injury and believe it or not lack of exercise.
For the majority the reason why so many people experience knee pain is due to the lack of support of the VMO or Vastus medalis obliqus muscle. The vmo is the ‘tear drop’ muscle that runs down your thigh and attaches to the medial or inside portion of your knee. When this muscle weakens it loses its ability to absorb force. Once that happens slowly over a period of time the day to day force that you produce will begin to end up in the knee itself. The knee with its tendons, ligaments and cartridges are not designed to absorb force and the tissue begins to fray. The fraying first begins at a microscopic level then at a greater level that will produce inflammation that. Inflammation will then produce pain.
What most people do is to take some type of over the counter medication for it which will help with the pain. However, in the long run you’re not getting to the cause of the pain you are only dealing with the symptoms. This leads to further damage and eventual degeneration of the internals aspects of the knee joint. In extreme cases some surgeons advise a complete knee replacement.
As people age they tend to develop ‘arthritis’ which is no more than what I explained above. These people suffering with this type of daily pain don’t know enough but to take pills to ease the pain. But I’m here to tell you that most knee pain can be stopped if the proper measures are taken to build up the proper support for the knee joint itself.
I’ve taken care of tons of patients who have been told that they have bone-on-bone and that they need a knee replacement. Please let me tell you in some cases this may be true however I can tell you with direct sincerity that many of these patients can avoid needless surgery.
New Technology
Several years ago I along with two colleagues came across scientific literature that was buried in the archives of treatment. The theory was that fascia that is a thin connective tissue within the entire body has a tremendous factor in joint, muscle and organ protection. Once strained or disrupted the tissue becomes one of the leading pain generators of the damaged area. Over time it can develop in loss of motion, swelling and pain. If not corrected it can continue to linger causing the patient to compensate which leads to further disability.
So let me tell you a quick story on how I started using this method. As I said we found many of this information scattered in different areas of research. We took the time to connect the dots and developed a theory that could relieve pain faster that what is being offered today.
Out of the blue a young college girl was referred to me for a chronic sprained ankle. She entered wearing an air cast and using crutches. She was desperate to drive to New Jersey to see her sick mother and she was unable to drive due to the severe pain in the ankle. I told her that I have a new technique that I’ve never done before but I think it will help you. She reported that she didn’t care – she really wanted to get back to see her mother. I agreed to try it on her.
Well, I started treating her and after about 5 minutes of treatment I had her get up and stand on it. Honestly, to my amazement she reported that she had no pain. After 15 minutes of treatment she walked down the hall without the crutches and the air cast reported a tremendous reduction of pain. Even my staff came to me asking me what I did because they saw her come in and now she had here cast and crutches up on the counter signing out.
Well that was the birth of MFDT in my office.
What I found out was that when you straighten out this tissue in just a few minutes the pain begins to go away along with the swelling and the range of motion begins to return…literally minutes after starting treatment. We continued to develop this treatment which we call the MyoFascial Disruption Technique (MFDT). I have been using on athletes and non-athletes alike for year with amazing success.
Another treatment that we offer is called the ARPwave. An extremely unique machine that provides an electrical current that will actually find where the damage originated from. What makes this so unusual is that where you feel the pain is not where the damage began…it’s where the damage ended up. By locating the source of the damage we can instantly begin to correct the situation and help strengthen it so that it doesn’t return.
The combination of these two treatments has helped people with chronic pain for years begin to live normal lives. It has also has helped hundreds of athletes return to the field of competition much faster than other conventional treatments.
Don’t let nagging pain keep you down…give us a call to see how we can help you. You will probably be surprised how fast we can have you feeling better.
