| What is the largest joint in our body? | | | | better health for our knees. Being one of the |
| Answer: The Knee. The knee is the connecting | | | | most easily injured joints in the human body, |
| point of a total of three bones in our legs: | | | | the knee rightly deserves its warm- ups, |
| the lower end of the thigh bone or the femur, | | | | before it lies fateful to Cartilage Injuries, |
| the upper end of the shinbone or the tibia, | | | | Chrondromalacia, Tendon Injuries, Iliotibial |
| and the knee cap or the patella. Other parts | | | | Band Syndrome, Osgood-Schlatter Disease, |
| of the knee are the cartilage or the shock | | | | Osteochondritis Dissecans, Plica Syndrome, or |
| absorbing cushions in between muscles, the | | | | Arthritis. If you are already suffering from |
| tendons or the cords connecting muscles to | | | | any of these, then you should be in luck for |
| bones, and the ligament or the bands | | | | knee physical therapy. Whether you are lying |
| connecting our bones to other bones. Any | | | | cooperatively on an injury RICE (rest, ice, |
| damage to all of these parts are accounted | | | | compression, elevation), or just watching |
| for by a Knee physical therapy, and just the | | | | your way for tripping stones, whether you |
| ligament alone is so vulnerable to pulling, | | | | have knee injury or knee pain, recovering |
| stretching and tearing, and with each knee | | | | from injury, or plainly trying to avoid it - |
| having four major supporting ligaments: the | | | | Knee physical therapy can handle it all, as |
| anterior cruciate ligament or ACL at the | | | | long as you get it immediately. Yes there are |
| center of knee, the posterior cruciate | | | | other procedures to hold your back beyond a |
| ligament or PCL also at the center, the | | | | knee physical therapy, yet should you go that |
| lateral collateral ligament or LCL at the | | | | extra mile of surgery, arthroscopy, or knee |
| outer knee, and the medial collateral | | | | replacement? Knee physical therapy offers |
| ligament or MCL at the inner knee - Oh the | | | | easy access to prevention, emergency, or |
| pains of a sprain! and much more other knee | | | | rehabilitation. Following simpler processes |
| ailments. Knee physical therapy deals with | | | | such as evaluation, therapy, education, and |
| damages to all these bones and parts | | | | aftercare, knee physical therapy can |
| altogether - so what better reason to take | | | | literally make you good to go. Try to jump, |
| care of it! Knee physical therapy injury | | | | stand, run, and pivot - jump for joy if you |
| prevention itself does so much in providing a | | | | have a healthy knee! |