I probably don’t need to tell you this, but the best surgery is the one that is avoided. Disclaimer, as a sports physical therapist, I am a bit biased!
After knee surgery, your knee is not the same. Tissue may have been removed or artificial parts/pieces may have been put in. Regardless of the procedure, the skin was cut open, scar tissue formed, and time is needed time to heal.
This impacts the function of your knee and your ability to run and exercise as you had previously.
Now, I am not saying that surgery should never happen. What I’m saying is that it should be a last resort.
In my 12+ years working as a sports physical therapist, I have learned that people commonly have knee surgeries when there are things they can do to delay or avoid them altogether.
In many situations, the knee cannot handle the stress required of it for sports or your active lifestyle. As physical therapists, we commonly prescribe exercises that train the knee to handle all of that stress. In other instances, the knees are dealing with too much stress because another area isn’t doing its job. A thorough sports physical therapy assessment will determine what these areas are so that a comprehensive plan can be prescribed to fix it.
Whatever the reason is, a sports physical therapy assessment may be the secret sauce to finally solving your knee pain and avoiding the surgery you have been worried about! To schedule that, contact us today!
