The Most Common Musculoskeletal Pain in Women
Knee pain is probably the most common musculoskeletal complaint we see in women. They have done studies in high school and college on professional athletes showing that women have a higher propensity towards knee pain and knee injuries than men and boys. We think that some of the issues have to do with the shape of a woman.
So we have wider pelvises so that we can have pregnancies and deliveries, and then the ankle from the pelvis to the knee is kind of a sharper angle where the knees are sort of more knock kneed, if you will, and so we think that that alignment, in combination with fallen arches of your feet, can cause you to have more problems with the tracking of your kneecap.
So some people think it’s the kneecap that’s the problem, but it’s probably the femur, the bone that the kneecap glides in that’s in the wrong position. So the kneecap is the train and the femur is the track, and it’s probably not the train that’s a problem but really the alignment of the track. So a lot of knee pain we actually treat with strengthening around the hip to change the alignment of the femur, of the thigh bone.
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