Wednesday, June 29, 2011

How To Cure Your Knee Pain




Knee pain is the lower body crippler.

It is not usually the knee itself either but rather referred dysfunction from your hips and ankles.

At Full Circle Fitness we can assess these two joints during static and dynamic posture to pin point the exact problem area that is causing your pain, rather then simply treating the knee itself as so many others do, leaving the actual problem untreated.

Knee pain is a product of a faulty movement movement pattern, in this case, an anterior or quadricep dominant movement pattern, which in turn shifts your center of gravity forward of your base of support and thus, increases the stress at the knee joint.

After mobilising certain joints and then activating a new set of muscles you never knew you had, we can get your body into greater postural positioning to use a more hip dominant movement pattern, decreasing the stress on the knees and shifting some of the stress to the body's strongest area, the glutes and hips.

Lower Back Pain


An astonishing fact is that within their life, 80% of the population will suffer from some sort of lower back pain or dysfunction and unfortunately that probably includes you.

At Full Circle Fitness we not only understand your limitations and apprehension in regards to exercise, but we want to help you and break down these barriers.

We want to find the problem and treat the problem, not the symptoms.

Go to any health care professional and they will send you off to Pilate's, but core strength and endurance is only part of the problem.

Here's a list of things that can contribute to lower back:

  • limited ankle mobility
  • limited hip mobility
  • quad dominant movement pattern
  • poor core strength/endurance
  • limited thoracic spine mobility
  • your chosen sport
  • your chosen field of work
  • and your compensation patterns that come from the faulty movement patterns above

I don't know of any Pilate's studio's that cater to all these things, let alone personal trainers!

By using a joint by joint approach to assessing our clients, we can determine where your actual problem is coming from.