Patient Education

Weight lifting is a great way to enhance muscle tone and improve fitness, but if you are not careful, it can also be hard on your knees. Weight lifters often suffer from nagging knee pain, and in some cases, they may develop full-blown knee injuries like patellar tendinitis or ligament tears. Thankfully, there are ways…

Does your knee sometimes feel like it’s about to give out? Perhaps you have the sensation that if you put all of your weight on your one leg or bend your knee in a certain way, it will collapse under you. Whether you actually collapse or just feel like you’re about to, this symptom is…

Cycling can be either good for your knees or bad depending on a lot of factors. Even though cycling is low-impact, it uses a lot of repetitive motion and positions that put strain on your knees if you’re not careful. Just like any sport, you can hurt yourself if you don’t take precautions or prepare…

Injuries associated with the knee are usually pretty easy to detect because the knee is one of the most used joints in the entire musculoskeletal system. There are some knee injuries, however, that are either hard to initially detect or that get mistaken as other problems altogether. Unfortunately, this delayed attention to knee injuries could…

If you have pain from a lingering knee injury or if you struggle with a chronic condition like arthritis, you might wonder how you can possibly get a good workout. A lot of popular sports and activities for optimum fitness require heavy impact or extensive use of the legs. Running, interval training, and most team…

Most children go through growing pains at some point in their lives. Often, growing pains result in discomfort and pain located in the thighs, hips, and behind the knees. Typically, growing pains are not bone or joint-related, and so these pains are considered a normal part of growing up. Doctors typically attribute growing pains to…