This video will review how to treat muscles around the knee to relieve knee arthritis pain. Knee arthritis can lead to muscle pain. Muscle pain can also cause worsening knee arthritis. Here are 5 at home treatment options to solve knee arthritis muscle pain.
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*Soft Tissue & Rehab*
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Jeffrey Peng MD is a nonoperative orthopedist and sports medicine specialist. He created a YouTube channel and blog to translate cutting edge medical knowledge and clinical research to benefit all those looking to live an active and healthy lifestyle. He focuses on maximizing non-surgical treatments for sports injuries and orthopedic conditions. He specializes in using orthobiologics and ultrasound guided minimally invasive techniques to treat osteoarthritis, tendinopathies, and musculoskeletal disorders.
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As a coach in the fitness industry for 26 years solid video.
1 thing to add
Water!!!!!
Your muscles slide and glide. If your underhydrated your muscles tighten and can cause your muscles to have more tightness or dense tone.
Drink 1/2 your body weight in Oz a day.
Another point…..choose exercises that are hip dominant thst emphasizes your gluten.
Bridges
Deadlifts/Hip hinge
Post lunges
Hip extension
Etc
I am 50 and have patella arthritis pain on knee cap from lol about 40,000 training sessions
These things make my psin a 1-2.
Biking is massive for synovial fluid to circulate around the knee joint.
Low impact exercises….just if you bike stretch//foam role the quads especially afterwards.
What's your opinion on stem cell therapy for treating knee arthritis? Thanks!
Thanks for posting this great information I can’t wait to try some of it.
thank u
The natural remedies you suggested are amazing. I'm excited to see how they help me.
Awesome
thank you doctor
Magnesium and collagen are under rated and I dont hear Dr's talk about them enough
my God, i wish i had you as my ortho doc
I keep on trying to tell the dr.s about my musle pain and its crickets. Because i have a dengerate tear in Minicus and OA which never bother me before. Not until I had a blunt injury to my knee. There ignore pain in my pain at joint line and musle pain in my quad above my knee. I think i have runners knee and tendinitis in my patella.
I have never heard of dry needling! Very interesting!! I have a consult for PRP injections on Mon and I am going to ask about these!
I have trigger point tools and foam rollers! Used for years and they work. I also have a sports chiro who does more than snap crackle pop! He is amazing!
**Also look into castor oil!**
Strengthening your glutes makes a huge differ!
I will never get knee replacements, they say I need them and I am truly just not interested. I believe we can heal our own bodies!
I was part of a dry needling study. I can’t say that it helped. I told the guy doing the study that on the other hand it certainly didn’t hurt.
Best exercise you can do with knee pain is strengthen your butt muscles (pardon my french). Cheers
Guys, Orthovita Oil works wonders for my knee pain. I feel so much lighter now 🌟
When one has bone or ligament or tendon injuries, these will likely case trigger point like pain. It is due to the nerves circuit signaling of that area. The trigger point injection will numb some nerve circuits of that area that are also linked to the nerves that connect to the nerve emdings at the hurting joint. So they just numb nerve groups responsible for the area served by the injured tendons or ligaments or bone…it is sort of pain killer but more focused on the injured area
I hv 85 yr grade 4 OA case. Doing mfr and strenthening exercises. Wt else should i do
Nice video on treating knee arthritis prior to exercising. Was just diagnosed with knee arthritis and I like to exercise. Never thought of heating knee prior to exercising to relieve knee arthritis pain. Very informative
This is confirmed. Described location of stiffness in knee. Found predicted tender spot.
I think he's right. I have osteoarthritis in the leg I tore my achilles. The calf muscle is significantly smaller than the left leg. Also tore the miniscus in the same leg. Other leg has absolutely no issues
Thank you! Super informative. Is there any evidence for red light therapy?
Hello Jeff,
When I stand for a while – for about 10 mins, there is growing weakness and pain in my knee and rectus femoris tendon.
I visited 4 doctors, and none of them are able to cure the issue
I've been lifting for years – the mistake I did was not stretching enough.
Now, I've been deep stretching, doing low impact exercise, foam rolling etc. Still the issue persists.
How can I permanently cure this issue?
Fabulous video thank you and very timely! I underwent a TKR on the left 12 weeks ago, though a very challenging procedure to work through I am now pain free from the original arthritis for which I am very grateful for and I’m continuing to work on getting that “normal” knee feeling totally back. Unfortunately my right knee which has a slightly lesser degree of arthritis is now very painful in the inner aspect on any movement, my operated leg is now my “good” leg! I will try all your suggestions as I’m keen to avoid another replacement if I can, pretty tough surgery😳, I’m 60 years young so alternative options are welcome. 🥰🏴🇬🇧
8 months after knee replacement, my knee buckles when I least expect it
Thanks, great video.
Were do you work??
How can I come and visit your work place ?
I like you!!! I used to do Burpuees and hiit several years ago. Perhaps i did them wrong. Or its my 60lbs weight gain. Now i can't even kneel without my knees cracking and with mild pain on the medial area. Im 36 yrs old. I don't want surgery. So im doing everything in my power to make it better. Thats how i ended up here. So. Thank you!!
Ja det här är ju en stor grej för oss gamlingar. Fattar du engelska , kolla på alla dessa videos. Mvh gh i onsala❤
Hi Dr. Jeffrey, thank you for doing these videos.
I have recently had my 3rd PRP injection for torn common flexor tendon in my Left elbow. It's helping but I have a question for you. Do you have suggestions for neuropathy that travels the whole arm? Thank you in advance for your help.