How to address Knee Pain

Bill Parravano: Hi! Bill here and I just met Leo. We are at a business convention in L.A. and Leo is having some difficulties with his knee. So I was going to let Leo explain what's going on in his knee, then I am going to work on his knee for a little bit, and then we are going to have him give a testimonial and share what we did here today at the convention. So go ahead Leo. Leo: I am Leo and I was just walking. I know have a lot of on mileage on my knees since I am 49 years old. When I was walking, I felt something - I felt like it popped, but it's been swollen out for about maybe two or three weeks. I can still walk on it, but sitting down and getting up, I have don't have the range of motion. As I bend down I can feel the constriction. I don't have full flexibility and motion. Hopefully, Bill will be able to help me out, and I'll be able to walk and run and jump again. Bill Parravano: Okay! Now, what I am going to check with you is how the tension is holding in your knee, which direction feels more comfortable than the other. So I am going to get a hold of your leg, and I am going to rotate it in. Can you feel like it's tighter in there? It's kind of tight going that way. And as I go out, you see how it keeps going. It's easier, yeah. It's easier when the leg rotates out. So what I am going to do is I am going to hang out in that place. Remember I was telling you before about the nervous system need to recognize that there is comfort going on. So I am rotating the leg out, and we are hanging out in this position. And I am waiting for a shift to take place. Something different feels to the nervous system as a result of positioning the leg like rotating out. Can you feel how the ball of the leg is rotating out? Female Speaker: Bill, can you just do the last 30 seconds again, because it's hard to hear what you are doing? Leo: Pain. Bill Parravano: Okay. Something is going on there. Now, I am going to go back and recheck. Can you feel how there is no movement in that direction inward? You feel how there's more balance, because I am going back and forth. Leo: That's not tight Bill Parravano: Yeah. It's not so tight rotating in. Okay. So we have got to change to take place as a result of taking your leg to comfort, makes sense? Leo: Yeah. Bill Parravano: Okay. So you are saying you had the pain right in here? Leo: It's really close like the bottom of the line in here, it's really close. I notice a swelling mostly on the right-hand side. Bill Parravano: Got it. Now, just leave the leg down. Now, what I am going to do is I am going to push the bone in your leg, back and forth, and we are going to get --once again we are going to create that contrast between where it is right now and find out where it's comfortable. So as I push the leg back, the bone back in your lower leg, you notice how it really doesn't move a lot, it's pretty tight in there. And if I push it forward, there is more give, can you feel that? Leo: Yeah. Bill Parravano: Okay. So we are going to hang out in the same position which is the ease of movement. We are exaggerating the pattern that's going on in the leg. And we will hang out here until once again the nervous system recognizes that change. And you feel how in back of your knee, it's kind of fluttering a little bit. Leo: Yeah. Bill Parravano: Okay. When you feel that fluttering, that's the nervous system recognizing the fact that it's comfortable. This is the tension pattern that the knees holding on creating the pain. It was functional for when you injured it, when it got tweaked. It's not functional for you to walk in your life without the discomfort. So with that fluttering, there is recognition in the nervous system that a change is taking place. So we are going to go back and push backwards and you see how it's springing here. So how does it feel across there now? What does that feel like? Leo: Less tension. It doesn't feel there is lot of tension there. Bill Parravano: It's tight - cool! Okay. Now what does it feel like? Leo: When going down my leg, I notice a difference like; I don't know if I can kick. Bill Parravano: Don't you do it yet. Leo: It definitely feels good. Bill Parravano: Is there anything as I push in here? Leo: Yeah, I feel something right here with that top finger, there is a - I feel like a bone. Bill Parravano: Okay. So what I am going to do is that same -- we are going to have to play with this here a little bit, because I don't have a -- normally this takes place on to the side. So I am going to lift your leg up and I'll support it with my thigh. And then we'll push on in the inside here, does that take the pressure off of that spot? So what happens is the cartilage gets tweaked between the knees, between the bones in the leg. Can you feel how it's warming up in there a little bit? When you feel the warmth, that's like unkinking the garden hose when it gets tighten. So we are creating space for the blood and the oxygen to get in there. You saw that twitch in there a little bit. So we are going to put the leg back down, and then recheck. How's that feeling there now? Leo: I feel the same pain there. Bill Parravano: A little different, did it move? Leo: I don't know if it moved, but at the same point where you pressed before, when you just pressed that point, I didn't feel that same pain. Bill Parravano: Okay. So what does the knee feel like now? Leo: I don't know how to describe it, unless I feel like I am going to walk on it. Bill Parravano: Do you want to give it a try? Leo: Definitely, yeah. I feel the difference. That's impressive. I might have hyper-extended it, because it feels like -- Bill Parravano: When you hyperextend the knee, the body's nervous system reacts to protect it from being torn or broken or something. Okay. So you step funny, the nervous system reacts to spasms, to protect the body, the knee from getting injured further. It's functional for that injury. It's not functional for you to walk around without discomfort. Leo: Yeah. Definitely it's the truth. Yeah, true. It's true. It works to $3000 pay for you. You are the business guru. Bill Parravano: Cool Leo! Thank you very, very much. Leo: Great work. Few minutes I feel -- I am not going to start and run on it yet, but I feel more confident about it, feels good. Don't feel the same pain and yeah, feels good. That's my testimonial.