Hello! And welcome to The Knee Pain Guru Session 11. I have an email from Corey. She indicates that she's 34 years old with a 7 year old little boy. She's a radiographer and works at a hospital in the Interventional Radiology department. She's also a third degree black belt in karate and is currently competed in triathlons. She's very active person and hopes to one day soon complete a full Ironman Triathlon.
I just recently began training for the upcoming season and noticed pain on the inside of my left knee. I'm also having pain in the back of my knee only when I sit back on my heels. I can do stairs with no pain at all and squat with no pain. It seems to hurt with walking and running. I didn't endure any trauma there's no clicking or excessive popping in either knee. It feels pretty strong overall, but when I try to sit back or stretch it seems to make it worse. I even I had one of my colleagues that I work for look at my knee with the ultrasound, they found no fluid or Baker's cyst. I thought it is a torn meniscus, is it a torn or sprained MCL which is the medial collateral ligament. That's a ligament within the knee.
I can still ride my bike. That being said, with thoughts of losing my Ironman dream, I frantically look online for some answers. I've always been want to do everything with my own research and doing the own physical therapy. However, there's something I don't want to take my chances on. I saw your website, read some of your thoughts and I was extremely impressed. Water intake is so important along with breathing in positive mindset. I medially read your e-book. Cool! Thank you very much Cody. However, I hadn't had a chance to get into the exercises yet. If you had any thoughts on my knee situation, please let me know. Thank you.
Thank you very much Corey. Once again from the Session 10 when you're experiencing pain in the knee and there's no, you've done the MRIs, you've done X-Rays or whatever the case is and there isn't anything indicating that there's something broken or torn or anything wrong. You've to look at the tension pattern that the nervous system is holding onto. I went into this the other session like I said Session 10 that the body holds on the tension to protect itself from being injured further.
As we work with these tension patterns, specifically when you find positions of comfort with these tension patterns, you engage the body self-corrective reflexes that allow it to let go over the tension on its own. Similar to that of if you've ever seen those Chinese finger games. If the Chinese finger games were if you pushed the fingers together, it loosens it and if you pull it apart, it makes it tighter. The body works the very same way.
Your body holds on the tension the very same way and what happens is we endure stress day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, over a long period of time and then finally we do something, it seems very minor and always said in experiencing knee pain. It's a result that little minor exercise you did or the run you went on or the hike you went on appears to have caused the knee pain, however we were ignoring the days and weeks and months and years of stress that is built up in the body creating that tension and then it's the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak.
So what needs to happen is you need to create space in the body and with that space we need to fill it with the strength. Strengths in the tendons and the ligaments, specifically in the joints to support the knee joint so it doesn't slide back into those old patterns that caused the knee to get injured to begin with. The knee injury could be a form of a physical injury or it could be as a result of the tension that has built up in the body over a long period of time.
So, Corey, hopefully this explains what's going in your knee in a different light. If not please feel free to send me an email and I will go ahead and clarify that. You can send that to bill@thekneepainguru.com and I also can be found at the same website www.thekneepainguru.com. So that's our question for this session and you can go ahead and send your questions to me as well and I will see you next session. Thanks a lot. Bye-bye!
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