Because we use our knees, legs, and ankles every day, having pain in any of them will make daily life more difficult. It can be hard to walk as fast as you need, climb stairs, run, exercise, or jump. Sometimes knee or ankle pain is isolated to just those areas. Sometimes pain in your knee will impact your leg muscles – quadriceps and hamstrings. Sometimes ankle pain will radiate up into your calves or down into your feet.
Pain in your knee or ankle has many causes:
Stiffness or achiness
Dislocation
Sprain/Strain
Overuse
Injury or fracture
Tendonitis
Gout
Bursitis
Other causes
Knee and ankle pain can be difficult to treat because the root cause of pain can come from so many places. We know this, and our physical therapists are trained to find the root cause of knee and ankle pain no matter where its true source is.
Treatment for knees and ankles at React Physical Therapy
At React we know that where it hurts isn’t always why it hurts. The root cause of your knee and ankle pain might be in your knee and ankle, near it, or nowhere near it. How do we know that? Your body is one interconnected machine. Everything is connected to something else. There are no gaps from head to toe. If one area of your body is under optimized, that will ripple and cause pain elsewhere. We find the root cause of your pain and treat it.
We Follow a Three Stage System to treat knees and ankles
We take all patients through our three stage treatment system:
1.
Assessment
We do a thorough, body wide assessment to find the root cause of your pain.
2.
Treatment
We treat with a variety of manual and exercise techniques.
3.
Movement
We show you how to move properly so you can stay out of pain.
We make sure we spend enough time at each stage. We don’t skimp stages or slim them.