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