Hello, and welcome to The Knee Pain Guru Questions Asked, Week 6. I have a question from Caroline this week and she is telling me her situation. Her left knee is worst; I am assuming left knee as opposed to the right knee. She is bald for almost 50 years, she is 71, walks six flights of steps everyday to work, and walks for lunch. Snow skied for 20 years, which she believes contributes to her knee pain. So she believes her knee pain is legitimate.
Well, of course, your knee pain is legitimate because it hurts. So there is a legitimacy in anyone who is experiencing knee pain.
She is in the rehab from July to August this year, because she fell in the tub and the x-ray showed just a sprain, no breakage. The orthopedic surgeon said x-ray showed very little cartilage left in the knee joints. He recommended weight bearing exercises. She has been doing aerobics two evenings a week. Also. the doctor recommends stationary bike pedaling.
She is into herbs, Glucosamine Chondroitin MSM, Super Omega-3s, calcium, vitamins and minerals, from health food stores, not Kmart and the like.
Drinking water. Good, good Caroline. Did the correct breathing for getting up and down from a chair, which is very good, excellent. Breathing significantly helps. She usually uses her arms to push up from a chair. It's a bad habit. Yes. Discovered that she is a shallow breather.
She believes she may need a left knee replacement and will continue to work with the water pH and breathing and whatever comes next. Well, thank you Caroline for your email.
I believe the bone-on-bone piece is somewhat of a myth, because, yes, your knees can be bone-on-bone, however, what is not being taken into consideration is usually one that takes place, the joint is dehydrated, meaning the meniscus, the cartilage between the bones is not fully hydrated, it doesn't have enough water, so as a result the bones have no cushion, and you can easily remedy that by continuing to drink more water, incorporating more water into your diet, that's very, very important.
There is also something else I would like to bring, and it's a Harvard study actually. There were MDs, what they did is they did a research on -- it's called tensegrity structure or they called it biotensegrity, and essentially what they did is they created a skeleton that through tension between the bones that they put in the skeleton, the skeleton was able to walk down an incline plane, which essentially means the bones were supported by the tension in the system. When the system, meaning your structure has the proper tension throughout the entire structure, the discs between the bones are not meant to be rubbed upon. The body is designed to be supported by the tensegrity structure.
So I believe people that have bone-on-bone just have a compromised tensegrity structure, and you can begin to reestablish that tensegrity structure throughout your entire body by drinking more water, by doing the proper exercises, meaning you are strengthening the tendons and ligaments in the knee joint itself, doing proper breathing, proper stretching, and having a good diet that is keeping your pH level at a place that your body -- it sets the foundation, it sets the conditions where your body is able to heal itself.
So that's my take on Caroline's email. Once again, I thank you very much for sending that to me. Go ahead and send your questions to Bill@TheKneePainGuru.com, and we will see you next week. Thanks a lot. Bye, bye.
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