Blog Category – Knee Pain

Top 4 Exercises Before Total Knee Replacement Surgery
If you’ve decided to have a total knee replacement (TKR) surgery, now is the time to do everything you can to improve the flexibility and strength in your knee!
If you read the first blog in this series, you’re already familiar with the “3 Essential Tips” to speed your post-surgical recovery and reduce the likelihood that you’ll need to visit a nursing home or in-patient rehab facility…
2 of the 3 essential tips were to improve your knee flexibility and strength as much as possible.
And while that sounds great, you might be thinking something like this: “It makes sense to improve my knee flexibility and quad muscle strength, but how do I do this, especially when I’m in so much pain?”
I’ll show you 4 simple and effective exercises in this post, complete with video!

How Heel Pain Causes Hip & Knee Pain
Let me tell you a quick story about a gal who recently came to see me for her left knee pain…
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Moriah started experiencing pain on the outside of her left knee about 3 months ago. When I spoke with her about her knee pain, she told me that it probably had something to do with her new job, which requires her to be on her feet all day and to lift up to 50# at times.
What I didn’t tell you about Moriah is that she’s had 5 previous right ankle surgeries, so I’ve worked with her quite a few times before. Naturally, I asked her how her right ankle was feeling…
“It feels awful, and I can barely walk on it at times” was her response!
Why Your Joints Feel Worse in the Winter
Have you noticed your joints feeling a little more stiff lately? How about more “cracking” and “clicking” in your knees when you try to stand up from a chair or squat down? With winter in full gear, increased joint pain is one of the most common things we see at Gordon Physical Therapy.
3 Things to STOP Doing Today to Relieve Knee Pain
Okay, it’s officially spring season here in the Northwest! And with the blessing of warm weather, mother nature starts calling to even the most out of shape people (that’s me)… One of my favo…
Understanding Knee Pain
From crackling and popping joints, to buckling and giving way, knee pain can take a variety of forms. While some types of knee pain are easy to understand, such as traumatic ACL tears and total knee …
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