Blog Category – Knee Pain

Here’s a newer post with some videos Luke made back in 2015 and 2016 about taping techniques for knee pain.

Here’s the good news: although the videos are old, the taping techniques are still great for knee pain!

In a previous video, I discussed how to avoid developing “Stiff Knee Syndrome” after Total Knee Replacement (TKR) surgery.

But then this question was asked: “What if I’m already developing Stiff Knee Syndrome after surgery. What should I do then?”

In response to that excellent question, I made this video, which includes 7 pieces of advice:

1). Aggressive stretching
2). Aggressive/skilled manual therapy (including taping techniques)
3). Reduce swelling – lymphedema treatment/compression
4). Aquatic therapy if able
5). Cold water therapy
6). Take your pain medications and natural anti-inflammatories (if able, talk to your doctor and/or pharmacist)
7). Determine early if you need an MUA

If you’ve just had Total Knee Replacement (TKR) surgery, or you’re preparing to have it, you might be wondering how often you should be going to physical therapy for your post-surgery treatments.

In this video, I’ll give you some guidelines for deciding how often you should be attending PT after surgery, and I’ll also try to stretch your thinking a bit on this question…

Although I don’t actually get this question very often from my total knee clients, I sure think about it a lot!

If you’ve had Total Knee Replacement (TKR) surgery, you might be wondering what A+ care looks like… for example, what if you were a professional athlete?

In this case, would you be getting more “hands-on” care from your PT, such as massage-based techniques to help reduce your pain and swelling, and to help optimize healing?