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an athlete s guide to chronic knee pain your answer to patellar tendonitis, jumper s knee, and patellar tracking problems the three biggest chronic knee rehab mistakes you're making you're waiting for magic gnomes to fix your knee. Your knees your sweet and sacred knees they're in shambles they bother you at all hours of the day. Getting in and out of the car. Standing up from chairs. Cutting a rug on the dance floor. And let's not even talk about how they feel when you try to exercise or play any sports.
conventional wisdom says to rest. Lay in bed. Slug out. Wait a little while before you go back to squatting, running, or jumping.
what do you do if your car breaks down? do you leave it in the garage and hope it fixes itself? knee pain isn't natural. Something is wrong. It's always going be wrong unless you fix it.
the traditional theories of chronic knee pain rehabilitation are based on an arbitrary concept of being damaged one day, resting for a little bit, and then all-of-the-sudden being healed the next day. There's no transition. No regard for what caused the injury. No preventative measures. It's sad to say, but popular rehabilitation teaches long term failure and continual re-injury. There's a new way. A better way. A proactive way.
waiting around for your chronic knee pain to heal is stupid. Unless (and this is a big unless) you have some sort of short term inflammation or problem (which, by definition isn t chronic for more on this make s...read more detail
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