Ultimate Knee Guide For Getting Rid of Pain & Avoiding Surgery

By Carson Robertson DC

A guide to all conservative and medical treatments available to reduce your knee pain. A variety of knee conditions, home therapies, home products, and exercises are explained to educate and inform you of options available.

Most people can successfully avoid knee surgery if they follow the correct treatments and exercise program. Unfortunately most people do not get the right treatments or recommendations, which leads them down the path to surgery. Have you talked to providers who are experts at knee rehabilitation? How do you know you are getting the best advice for your specific condition and where do you go to learn and education yourself?

Most cases of chronic knee pain are a slow development of increasing knee pain over time with subtle loss of function; and can be improved with the right therapy and treatments.

Too many people make the mistake of having surgery first, and then going for rehabilitation. Maybe they should go for great rehab first and then surgery if absolutely needed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carson Robertson DC
• Release date: Nov 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463712481

Carson Robertson DC

Dr. Carson Robertson is a native of central Montana and obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of Montana. He subsequently earned his chiropractic degree from Northwestern Health Sciences University in Minnesota in 2004. While an athlete in school, he saw the benefits of chiropractic after an injury sidelined him. With that in mind, his clinic has a special emphasis and expertise in athletic injuries.Dr. Robertson has also been an adjunct faculty member at Paradise Valley Community College since 2009, where he teaches Anatomy and Physiology classes. Education, information, articles, multimedia teaching materials and videos bridge the PVCC classroom and the clinic. His lovable and demanding Pug helped improve the Anatomy and Physiology curriculum, leading to the Alpha Dog Education Series.When the doctor is not working he can often be found running the trails of South Mountain. He has run multiple marathons and ultra marathons, including the Crown King Scramble 50K, Javelina 100K and Javelina 100 Miler.

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Ultimate Knee Guide For

Getting Rid of Pain & Avoiding Surgery

For Those with Grey Hair, Lots of Experience, & Some Wisdom

By Carson D. Robertson DC

Alpha Chiropractic & Physical Therapy

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Copyright © 2019 by Carson D. Robertson

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

First Published October 2019 by Alpha Dog Marketing LLC

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Proper Rehabilitation to Enhance Knee Function for the Wise

Chapter 2 Quick Functional Test

Chapter 3 The Purpose of this Book

Chapter 4 There is a Difference in Healthcare Providers for Knee Pain

Chapter 5 Knee Structure and Function

Chapter 6 Test Your Balance and Proprioception

Chapter 7 It Gets Worse - Long Term Damage

Chapter 8 The Correct Way to Treat Knee Pain

Chapter 9 MRIs

Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Facts Hurt

Chapter 11 One of the Few Guarantees in Healthcare

Chapter 12 Graston Technique for Soft Tissue Injuries

Chapter 13 Active Release Technique

Chapter 14 Shockwave Therapy

Chapter 15 Chiropractic Manipulation of the Low Back

Chapter 16 Class IV Cold Laser

Chapter 17 FAKTR

Chapter 18 Base Level Standing Exercises

Chapter 19 Vibration, Unstable Surfaces, and Proprioception

Chapter 20 Knee Exercises

Chapter 21 Advanced Exercises

Chapter 22 Learning and Entertaining Story for Anyone Who Goes Through Rehab

Chapter 23 In Conclusion

Chapter 1 Proper Rehabilitation to Enhance Knee Function for the Wise

Knee pain is an increasing problem, and not just because you are getting older. You are paying for all of your previous activities, good and bad. Most older patients do not come into the office after falling, twisting, hearing a pop, or experiencing any type of trauma; they come in because they are experiencing chronic pain from cumulative damage. They would like to avoid surgery and return to normal daily activities. Walking, pickleball, golf, tennis, and sports should be enjoyed and not avoided.

There is usually a moment or event that causes people to acknowledge that they do not need to live in pain. It is time to get it better, get it fixed, or go hide in the recliner.

Why Does My Knee Hurt So Much? Am I Going to Need Knee Surgery?

These are questions healthcare providers answer every day. But do they give you the best possible advice? Is the provider an expert on chronic knee pain or does his specialty pertain to other areas? That’s where we come in.

Watch this video (linked below) for an explanation of proper knee function and treatment objections.

Video - Proper Knee Function https://youtu.be/x1P8JvcUoz8

Most cases of chronic knee pain are a slow development of increasing knee pain over time with a subtle loss of function.

A person may not notice how his foot, ankle, knee, and hip bend when he squats down to pet the dog or tie his shoe. Or how his knee dips inward when he squats. When you pick a shoe up off the ground, do you hinge at the low back, or drop your waist toward the ground? Do you squat to tee up a golf ball, or bend in the back?

You are losing knee function over time, leading to further tissue damage.

Realistically, the average person does not care about his body’s function until his body stops working or hurts. He does not work toward maintaining optimal function. Instead, he focuses on avoiding pain during the day. Unfortunately, this can lead to slow changes over time that cause dysfunction in movement patterns and pain.

My grandpa Bud would tell a story about my dad and cars. My dad is all about washing cars. Cars are always clean. Grandpa Bud said in his youth, my dad had the cleanest car in town; every weekend it was washed. He wouldn’t ever check the oil, but the car was clean. Bud was the opposite; the cars were well maintained and occasionally cleaned. We all know how this story eventually goes: clean car, with no oil, then smoke, and then, I told you so.

When I was growing up my dad continued to wash the cars every weekend. But I have still never seen him check the oil. However, he takes the car in for service every 3,000 miles without question.

Knees and cars are very similar, in that there is plenty of information about how to take care of them, but few people maintain either. Grandpa Bud never needed a knee surgery to get in and out of his baby blue International Scout. He had other issues, but knees and cars were not among them.

Chapter 2 Quick Functional Test

Did you know a simple ankle dorsiflexion test is a tremendous predictor for both dysfunction and the likelihood of developing ankle, knee, or hip pain? Dorsiflexion means bending the foot towards the shin. You should have greater than 20 degrees of dorsiflexion. Every five degrees below that increases the likelihood of a person developing lower extremity pain in the future.

Who Cares About Knee Function, as Long as My Knee Doesn’t Hurt!'

Perhaps in days past you believed the laws of physics did not apply to you. That you were never going to have knee problems despite having risk factors such as poor muscle tone and