Physiorevive – Runner’s Knee

 

Physiorevive is the known for best physiotherapy centre in Delhi. It specializes in treating various injuries including sports injuries. Established since last many years, this clinic has successful treated many ailments associated with the human body. Dr. Vikrant Bhardwaj (PT) with his team of experts handles the patients and their ailments with utmost care, patience and treats them with expertise. He is the first physio in India to securely learn and achieve all great milestones in the field of dry needling from Australia.

We all know that spots injuries and physiotherapy have been married old. There are various sports injuries that a physiotherapist can treat, such as runner’s knee. Runner’s Knee is something which is a very common term for those who are into running. This is something which can adversely affect your training. It is one umbrella term for various reasons that can cause discomfort or pain around the knee cap region. Most of us have an understanding that as the name says, it can actually be caused by running, but in deeper sense, any activity that can stress the knee such as walking, jumping, skiing can cause this. When suffering from a Runner’s knee, you may experience a dull aching feeling around the kneecap area. This may also be affected by swelling, popping , cracking sound from the affected knee areas. Apart from knee it also adversely affects the alignment of your ankles and hips.

Physiotherapy plays a vital role in treating the runner’s knee. We at physiorevive give treatment to our patients who are suffering from Runner’s Knee using various different kinds of techniques including modalities, dry needling, specific training & customized exercise programs. At physiorevive the physical therapy first begins with evaluation. This is dome to understand the history behind the ailment, how and when the discomfort started and then is followed by customized treatment plans. The treatment can be of different duration depending upon the extent of damage caused to the knee cap. It can involve stretches, cold and warm pressing, bending exercises, backward forward exercises and rotating exercises. Some of these exercises may not directly impact the runner’s knee, however they are vital to understand if the runner’s knee has also impacted any associated parts. These exercises will enable you to reorient the body symmetry which has been affected due to runner’s knee. Being a hinge joint runner’s knee take a toll on many parts of the body including knee. All these exercises are to be performed under the strict supervision of a physiotherapist.

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