Surely it will go away on its own? WRONG!
Should I ignore it? NO!
You’re in pain, your knee is stiff. It’s probably having a ling is negative impact on your life. You’re definitely not moving around as well as you used to. The pain might even be preventing you from sleeping at night.
Will resting your knee help ease the symptoms? Will avoiding those painful activities help? NO AND NO!!
By over-resting and avoiding any kind of movement, you are actually having the opposite effect than the one you wanted. The pain that you are feeling in your knee will get progressively worse, the stiffness will increase and you will actually feel worse than you did in the beginning.
Knee pain is a difficult one to deal with. People often make this worse by doing the WRONG things. It can affect your normal movement, making it more challenging for you to get about, stand or do a lot of household tasks. This has an enormous impact on your self-confidence. You become OVER cautious when living your life and eventually your knee becomes weaker and even stiffer.
Nobody wants to live with knee pain. The people who come to see us at Relive Physiotherapy in Chester with knee pain all ask us:
“WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME"?
Or
"WHY DO I HAVE TO SUFFER THIS KNEE"?
As there is so much information available in lots of different places, we’ve decided to group all the most important bits together for you. We’ve prepared a short report where you can learn about the different conditions that might affect your knee, such as Tendonitis, Bursitis, Arthritis and many more.
There is so much information about knees on the internet. Sadly, the majority of people who come to the Relive Physiotherapy Clinic in Chester to talk about their knee injury have either not found the right explanation or they have been given bad advice by somebody close to them. Whilst phrases such as ‘you’ll feel better with a bit of rest’, ‘give it a few days and see if it hasn’t got better’ or ‘go and see the GP to get some painkillers’, are well-meant, they won’t help your knee condition. Days, weeks, months (and even years) can go by and NOTHING has changed. In fact, the pain might even be worse than it was at the beginning. The advice you got hasn’t helped you – the painkillers have made the pain go away for a while, but as soon as you stop them, the pain is back. It might have been nice to rest for a while (but if you are generally an active person it would have been difficult) but your knee doesn’t feel any better. You’ve followed the advice you got, and it hasn’t worked. You’ve been inactive or on painkillers for a while, but you might even be in worse shape than you were when all this started.
Do the right things. They will help. If you don’t, then you are going to have to get used to knee pain as it will be a constant in your daily life. Getting ‘older’ doesn’t mean accepting knee pain and bowing to the ‘inevitable’. The pain may have stopped you from being active or doing the activities that you love, such as sport, doing the garden, looking after children or doing DIY, but it doesn’t mean that you have to give up on them forever.
If you have a knee injury and are in pain, then you don’t know what or who to believe about what is best for you. The information that you have found on the internet is contradictory and family and friends all have an opinion on what you should do. Very rarely are they medically trained, so despite meaning well, their advice will not help you at all. You are conflicted, you don’t know what to do, so you do NOTHING. Knee pain is sometimes caused by a sharp movement or impact, but more often it has been caused by years of poor knee care and the pain you are feeling is the EFFECT of this.
Don’t suffer in silence as you are not alone. We are here to help. Our experts at the Relive Physiotherapy Clinic in Chester can help your recovery. Our patients tell us:
If this is YOU, then book a call with the best Physiotherapy Clinic in Chester, and one of our friendly and helpful Relive Physiotherapists can have a chat to you (for FREE) to talk about your knee pain and what we can do to help you. Having tried some or all of the above is GREAT as it means that you are CLOSER to finding what works for you.
Just click on the Request Callback button below to have a FREE chat with one of our Physiotherapists. The form will take about 20 seconds to complete and is the first step on your road to recovery from your knee pain. We’ll give you the right information to help you make an informed choice and get back to doing those activities you LOVE, SLEEPING better and back off the medication that is managing your pain, but not your condition.
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