How to know if you have knock knees?
APeople who can not touch heels together and first contact by knees. Your knees are rotate inward. Most of the cases poeple with knock knees will develop flat feet and collapsed arches in the feet.
This position of the knees can degenerate into pain and injuries in the future as:
- Walking incorrectly feeling pain on knees
- Foot, ankle, hips pain
- Non sense of Balance or single leg stability
- Reduced range of motion of legs
- Lower back pain
- Shoulders of upper back pain
Consequences of Knock Knees?
In the long term this wrong position can degenerate in different problems as:
- Meniscus Tear
- Osteoarthritis
- Joint damage
- Scoliosis
- Disc herniation
etc.
Possible causes of Knock knees?
- Genetics reasons:
Some developing earlier and some later. Young children almost 20% under 3 years, by the age 7 studies show that 1% still have it.
- Blount’s Disease:
Disorder of the growth plates in the bones around the knee
- Poor Posture:
The Network muscles of the legs are playing a large role into the knee support.
What The Balance Pilates & Physio can do for Knock Knees Rehab?
We are experts in Pilates, Exercises for rehab, Myofascia release and Physiotherapy.
Pilates exercises: A large repertory of isolation exercises to improve strength, elasticity, stability and control.
General exercises: Focus on recover specific muscles using small props.
Myofascia Release: Using a manual therapy to unlock tissues and re balance the tension in different areas of your anatomy and let the exercises to get more and better results for your knock knees conditions.
Physiotherapy: Large resource of treatment, exercises and manual therapy to help you to release tension and pain.
Strength & Stretch
We are going to bring strength, stability and elasticity to the tissues who need it.
In Knock knees there is 2 main group of muscles into the lower extremities or legs in playing a large role:
– Muscles locked into elongation: Quads, Hips flexors & Tibialis.
– Muscles locked into contraction: Short and weak muscles as Inner Tight, internal calves, Hamstring and Fibularis muscles.
Flat Feet Rehab
In Flat Feet and Feet over pronation, we will follow a strategy of:
1- Recover big toe function and role…
2- Stimulate the 4 arches of the feet
3- Strength gluteus mediusto improve ankle stability
Pelvis & Core
As the position of the Pelvis is anterior tilt we will focus on exercises to bring mobility and bring the pelvis on the position Neutral aligned with the spine.
We often speak about Core as important and in this case his role will be stabilise the position of the spine, lower back and Pelvis position to carry correctly our pelvis when we are walking or just standing.
Our solutions for knock knees
Get a Good Posture
Our goals will be to improve your posture that means you will be able to align correctly your toes, feet, pelvis and spine as well as the Head.
Getting the correct posture means no more knock Knees.
Home Work & Change your habits
We will define a home workout to let you improve your strength and alignment.Teach you how to walk again correctly focussing on how to align from the big toe to your arms movement.
Love you - Make the changes happen
Probably you never think to be able to change your legs, knees but always think to do something... Today is not loo late!
Start now it is very easy and we will help you in every step of the program.
It is never too late to feel better, younger
Challenging you to strength, stretch and re build muscles will help you also to feel younger and more energy to your life.
Our customers often say it is not only about my knock knees ... it is a full vision of my body.
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All our instructors are certified, experienced and share the feeling to help everyone to reach them goals.
