Tag Archives: Knee
Knee Pain or Something Else?
Pain in your knee?
Sometimes when you have knee pain and you’ve been to see specialists and nothing seems to be the answer, you do wonder whether you’ll end up needing divine intervention. With biomechanics becoming more widely understood, we now know that by sorting out your biomechanics, we can often reduce the need to get down on your knees and pray. The affects our biomechanics have on our body and the vicious circle of injury and pain it can cause is one of the main reasons knee pain can be recurrent.
Hip and Knee Prostheses
A prosthesis is an artificial replacement of or substitute for a part of the body. Prostheses may be removable or may be permanently implanted. A prosthesis is used for functional or cosmetic reasons or in many cases, a prostheses is used for both. Hip and knee prostheses are permanently implanted to replace a hip or knee that was not functioning properly or has had years of wear and tear from an individual.
How to Treat and Prevent Hip Pain
The hip is a “ball-and-socket” joint. The largest bone in the body, the femur, is in the thigh and narrows to a “neck” that angles into the pelvis and ends in a ball-shaped knob. This ball fits into a curved socket in the pelvic bone (acetabulum). This arrangement provides a joint that can go freely in all directions. The joint itself is located rather deep under some huge muscles so that it is protected from dislocating – that is, from coming out of the socket.
