Don’t let knee pain stop you from doing the activities you love to do!
Numerous people without serious knee injuries (such as torn menisci, cruciate ligaments, or collateral ligaments) can still experience frequent pain in their knees, limiting them from their daily activities. If this is you, the cause of your pain may be from the muscles, ligaments, and fascia surrounding your knee. Additionally, joints of your low back can actually cause you to have a correctable leg length difference that can cause knee pain to persist.
At Barlas Chiropractic near South Lake Union, Dr. Jaffer Barlas will do a thorough exam to rule-out serious injuries and can then effectively treat the external tissues of your knee, as well as the knee joint itself and the surrounding joints (ankle, hip, sacroiliac, etc).
Sasha, a 51-year-old female and 11-year military veteran, presented to Barlas Chiropractic unable to bend her left knee past 90 degrees (even when seated) because she experienced intense sharp pain. An MRI showed that she might have had a torn meniscus. She just wanted to exercise and have the capacity to keep herself healthy and do the things she loved to do.
Dr. Barlas began treating her knee and hips and she began seeing improvement right away. Within 8 treatments over the course of a month, she could not only bend her knee far past 90 degrees, but she could actually squat far past 90 degrees without pain! For Sasha, there is no more talk of surgery and potential knee replacements- and she is running again!
Often, treatment of a knee involves working on muscles and joints of the hip and the lower leg. Once restricted joints, muscles, and areas of scar tissue are made mobile again, you can finally feel better. Dr. Barlas will apply Active Release Technique®, soft tissue therapy and chiropractic adjustment, along with therapeutic exercises, to relieve your pain and get you doing what you love again!
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