Saturday, January 23, 2010

FAQs: Knee Pain

I commonly see this questions on online forums (not exact word for word, but the gist is there):
I have just started jogging recently. I experience knee pain during the run. But the pain disappears after the activity stops. Any suggestions?
And of course there are many things suggested by a lot of people, eg: warm up properly, wear proper shoes, increase your distance gradually etc.

Now the problem with a lot of these cases, and a lot of other people who start physical training is that, their bodies are not prepared for their training. They have not done proper prehab to prevent injury. Some people think that stretching is a good enough warm up. Not necessarily so.

There are many ways to prevent injury, but what i want to highlight here is joint mobility. As people in urbanized society, majority do not have full mobility of all their joints.

The problem does not have to manifest itself through pain. When you do not exert yourself, you won't feel the pain. But once you start to ramp up your activity level, be it in activities of daily living or in physical training, the weaknesses start to become apparent.

How do i know this? Just do a physical assessment on anybody and find out how many people can't squat properly, can't jump properly etc. If you want to be more specific, try asking them to do pelvic tilts.

Or thoracic surge and sway

If you can do these, chances are that you are have better mobility than those who can't do them. Master all the movements in Intu-FlowⓇ joint mobility system and i guarantee you less pain.

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