Have Knee Pain, Hip Pain and/or Ankle Pain? General Exercise Tips

Note Briefly

The information herein is for general education purposes only; and does not act as medical advice, or function as an alternative.

For your benefit & safety, consult with your medical doctor for clearance; and physiotherapist, and/or personal trainer before engaging in any exercise regimen.

 

Introduction

If you exercise (non-sport focused) recreationally; or play sport- professionally, semi-professionally & recreationally), you stand a relatively high chance of experiencing injury, or pain (acute/chronic) within the ankle, knee & hip joints, at one point or another in your active lifetime (child age-senior age).

Same can be said for individuals (kids-senior) who are sedentary (very little movement). Such is the unforgiving reality we are faced with.

Read: Activities of Daily Living: Aging. Dysfunction. Population Challenges. Exercise.





Weight-Bearing Joints: Hips, Knees, Ankles

Our hips, knees & ankles, (with other joints), function as weight-bearers (bodyweight + external weight), in daily activities, such as:

• Standing.
• Sitting.
• Walking.
• Running.
• Jumping.
• Changing bodily direction.

The loss of strength & mobility; the presence/onset of disease (such as osteoarthritis); injury (product of trauma inherent external to your body, and/or internal to your body-such as through aging); are significant contributor(s) in us experiencing reduced movement capacity, and pain, within these and other weight-bearing joints.

Preserving and/or attaining optimum function within the knee, hip & ankle joints, as well as within other joints; towards the managing of our bodyweight combined with loads (external & multiplanar), is a critical targeted long term outcome/goal that is not typically fancied, relative to weight loss, weight gain & sport-specific performance.

This should not be the case.

 

General Exercise Tips-Knee, Hip & Ankle Pain





Prevention

With exercise clearance from your medical doctor, commit to an exercise regimen geared towards:

• Improving double-limbed & single limbed joint(s) stability.
• Strengthening (not necessarily) hypertrophy of striated muscle groups that support stability and movement of the joint(s) in focus.
• Increasing vascular density of striated muscles and other tissues which function to stabilize & move the joint(s) in focus
• Contract the services of reputable exercise professionals (rehab, post-rehab, sport-specific); such as physiotherapist, personal trainer, strength and conditioning coach).

Read: 4 Key Steps To Safe Exercise For All Age Groups

 

Rehabilitation-Post Rehabilitation Exercise Approach

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Diagnostics-Prescription-Exercise Clearance from medical doctor.

Multimodal passive & active exercise & stimulation for retraining, at ‘light’ resistance & relatively narrow range of motion.

Stability Training (bodyweight).

Mobility Training.

Load Training (light resistance; high reps).