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10 TIPS TO DECREASE PAIN FROM KNEE ARTHRITIS
Many people simply accept pain as a natural part of aging and having arthritis.
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HOW TO MAKE PAINFUL KNEES FEEL BETTER
“OUR AGED KNEES WOULD LIKE NOTHING BETTER THAN FOR US TO GET IN THE FETAL POSITION AND STAY THERE. “ MY 1010 PARK PLACE POST
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MENISCUS TEARS AFTER FORTY: A TREATISE
I could talk generally about meniscus tears, but not all meniscus tears are created equal. There are meniscus tears and then there are degenerative meniscus tears, and it’s the latter I’m talking about now. And the two types of meniscus tears are almost entirely different entities. DEFINITION OF MENISCUS TEARS But for starters, let’s just define the two types of tears, and to do this, it’s easiest to define acute meniscus tears and then just about everything else is degenerative. That way it will be easier for you to figure out which kind you have. Just about any meniscus tear in a person under forty who injures their knee,…
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KNEE CAP PAIN AND CRUNCHING
I feel compelled to write about knee cap pain again. Many of you have already read my earlier blog on this subject. It was my very first post! Do Not Do Squats Today I saw 6 women in my office with knee cap pain and crunching. All but one had been participating in supervised exercise routines which made squats, deep knee bends and lunges the backbone of the program. Women have a physical predisposition to having pain around their knee caps. It has to do with the shape of our pelvis. We were put together for having babies but not so much for running stairs and doing squats. And in…
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ELEVATED TOILET SEATS
How many times a day do you sit on the throne? Obviously for women, it’s a lot more than the guys. Getting up from the toilet is not much different than getting up from a squat and you already know how I feel about squats. A couple of years ago I switched out every toilet in my house for the elevated toilet seats. In my house we’re all tall so it made sense to do it. If you already have issues with your knee caps, this is going to have a healing effect. If you don’t already have a problem with them, it’s just going to reduce the lifelong stresses…
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DO NOT DO SQUATS!
I’m going to go ahead and post this blog. It’s going to make a lot of people mad. I posted it on my group’s blog (www.texasorthopedics.com) and we got more responses to it than any we’ve previously posted. And they were all negative! The exercise industry is highly invested in squatting. You just have to look at a health magazine to see that about every 10 pages has an ad or a column or a device incorporating the use of some variety of squat. My physician assistant and I keep a running tally on the number of patients I see every day in my clinic who have knee…
