Hey, everybody!

This is Dr. David from El Paso Manual Physical Therapy, and I have my good friend David Paloz here.

I wanted to educate you guys on how hip problems are so connected to knee problems.

Now, if you’ve got a knee cartilage problem like a problem with the cartilage behind the kneecap, you might get a lot of popping, grinding, clicking, squeakiness as he likes to call it, or the meniscus.

It’s another structure inside the knee that is very commonly injured.

95% of the time it’s connected to some issue up in the hip.

In most of our knee client’s cases, they have some sort of hip problem.

It may not hurt all the time, maybe occasionally it hurts here on the side or they get a little sciatic type sensation back in here.

That problem is causing the control in the hip to affect the knee.

If we find some limited mobility in the hip, we love doing this technique that feels really good on clients that helps us to start treating the knee and getting the knee to feel better.

I wanted to demonstrate that technique for you just so you can see what it’s like.

We don’t typically show these techniques to everyone just because it depends on what you need.

That’s what we do so not every client gets this, but this is an example of something that we will commonly do if we find a hip mobility problem.

Could you lie down please?

What we’ll find that’s limited most of the time, go ahead and bend your knee, is we’ll check the knee range of motion.

We’ll see how this … That’s actually a limitation right there.

You should have way more motion right there.

This one’s okay.

We might even do more techniques because that’s pretty limited, but here’s the technique that I want to show you guys today.

Just relax as best as you can. I’m going to hold you by the ankles here and just build up a little bit …

Don’t hold on, just relax.

One more time. Relax your leg.

There we go.

I’m going to recheck the hip motion here next.

I’m going to recheck the hip motion.

Relax here.

It’s a little better.

Okay. You can sit on up.

That will instantly improve the motion because what we’re literally doing at the ball and socket joint is just separating the surfaces for a brief moment.

It doesn’t hurt the hip.

It actually feels pretty good, and it helps the joint to sit better in the socket and move better.

Now, what we need to follow up with at this point is some exercises, some coaching on movements so that that ball and socket joint keeps moving better for the long term which in turn helps that knee out.

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Hope you all learned something today.

Have a wonderful day.