Pickleball is becoming a popular sport among people of all ages. Injuries from pickleball are increasing, and knee pain is common from the sport. The exercises & stretches in this video will help strengthen, relieve pain, and loosen up the muscles around the knee and the hip area.
Starting off with stretches to loosen everything up around the knee, a calf stretch, hamstring stretch, and quad stretch will help relieve pressure on the knee joint.
After stretching the muscles out, isometric exercises are a great way to start activating and strengthening the muscles, but not making movements that might increase the pain. Quad sets, hamstring sets, isometric hip abduction, and isometric hip adduction will help strengthen the main muscles around the knee and hip.
Knee stretches & exercises are a great way to help relieve knee pain. But with nearly 1,000 videos on the Ask Doctor Jo YouTube Channel, it can be hard to find the best knee video for you. So here's a rundown of some of my favorite Knee Pain Relief Videos! They range from one simple stretch or exercise to a realtime video and a demo video. Just pick the one that's best for you!
This standing stretching routine for seniors focuses on simple stretches that can help loosen up the muscles in the neck, shoulders, back, hips, and knees.
Knee pain strengthening exercises should focus on strengthening the muscles that attach to and cross the knee joint. Strengthening these muscles will help keep the knee strong to relieve knee pain and reduce knee injury.
Improving circulation and blood flow in your legs is important for everyone, but it’s especially important for seniors who might not move as much and for people who sit all day. The simple exercises in this video should help.
Hamstring pain or a hamstring strain can be very painful. The hamstrings help us walk, lift our legs backwards, and bend our knees. When you have a hamstring strain, all these movements can be painful. These hamstring stretches and exercises should help relieve a hamstring strain.
Is hot/cold therapy an effective way to help relieve knee pain and other pains throughout the body? Here’s some info about hot and cold therapy as well as some other techniques to help relieve knee pain.
These knee strengthening exercises don't require using a lot of weights. If you have knee pain, consider using knee compression sleeves to help increase circulation and reduce swelling & pain.
