KNEE INJURIES


With so many active individuals on the Peninsula, knee pain is a common complaint. In fact, knee injuries, along with shoulder injuries, are the most common injuries we treat. You can be guaranteed that whatever the cause of your knee pain, Apex has specialists whose goal is to get you back as quickly, and safely, as possible to the activities you enjoy.

Knee pain usually falls into one of two major categories: Inflammatory or Mechanical conditions.

Inflammatory or Overuse conditions- Often these injuries occur over time as the result of some type of repetitive activity (i.e. frequent jumping in sport or squatting at work) or with a significant change in activity (i.e. increasing mileage with running or increasing weight training).

With inflammatory conditions, although particular tissues around the knee may be inflamed, nothing is "broken" or "torn." Common inflammatory conditions include patella-femoral pain, patellar tendinopathy, IT band symptoms and mild arthritic changes.

Inflammatory symptoms usually respond extremely well to physical therapy. Our therapists will evaluate your strength, flexibility, and soft tissues around the knee, as well as the function of your hip and foot all of which can have a role in maintaining inflammatory pain complaints at the knee. Our therapists will then design a rehabilitation program specific to your needs which will likely include strengthening, stretching and manual therapy performed by an APEX therapist.


Mechanical conditions- Often these injuries result from a single event such as coming down from a jump, twisting, pivoting, cutting or a direct blow to the knee.

With mechanical injuries, tissues have been “torn” or "broken" inside the knee. Common examples include ACL tears and meniscus tears. Usually, but not always, surgery is the best way to correct these problems. The good news is that with advances the in arthroscopic surgery and proper post-operative therapy, pain complaints even after the “biggest” of knee surgeries is minimal and the outcome is predictable.

You can be guaranteed has APEX has therapists who specialize in treating post-operative procecedures such as ACL reconstructions, meniscal surgeries, procedures to restore articular cartilage, tendon repairs, fractures and knee replacements.