Do You Have Knee Pain And Your Foot Turns Out?

When you squat, it is extremely difficult for you to keep your feet parallel?

When jog or run, does your foot tend to whip outwards every time you push off? 

Are you sick and tired or achy troublesome knee pain? 

Knee pain, especially around the kneecap and inside portion of the joint are very common areas of discomfort for many. You may been given a medical diagnosis of patellofemoral pain, meniscal pain, or plain general arthritis. But what does this even mean? 

These medical diagnoses do not really help heal the underlying cause of your pain because they don't necessarily take movement patterns into consideration. 

One of the most common movement faults that wreck havoc on peoples' knees is a rotation outward of the lower leg relative to the thigh. This meaning your foot looks like it is turned outwards. 

Imagine what happens to your car when you drive for several hours with a wheel that is not aligned. The same thing happens when you are walking and walking with your knee in poor alignment.

The kneecap normally runs up in down in the trochlear groove but when there is a twist in the knee, it does not travel nearly as smoothly. This may be one of the underlying causes of your knee pain. Having this twist in you knee also also places stress on random areas such as the inside of the knee which may present as meniscal pain. 

More often than not, the underlying cause of your knee discomfort may be located at the back, hip or feet. If these areas are not as strong, mobile or stable as they should be, the knee takes the majority of the stress.

Now you are probably wondering, what can I do?!

Don't worry, there is plenty you can do. Hands on treatment to get specific muscles, tendons and joints loose so your knee can gradually settle in a better position. Stretching and strengthening of the correct muscles which will help maintain this new found position. 

Although it sounds relative simple, it does take sometime to rehabilitate a condition like this. It will take some hands on treatment by us and consistency and hard-work for you to keep up with your home corrective exercise program.

Rome was not build in a day, and chances are you've been damaging your knees for sometime before actually feeling your pain. 

If you want to find out whether or not we can help you, give us a call at 626-365-1380 or click one of the options below:

If you find your feet are not as stable, this can cause a chain reaction up your body as well. Check out our Custom Orthotics and how they can realign you from the ground up.