Reply #11: She MUST see a physical therapist. [View All]

[Divernan]

I have had knee injuries, and the orthopedic MD would do the xrays and give me some stick figure diagrams of exercises. NOT NEARLY ENOUGH ! I had to DEMAND a prescription for physical therapy - in my state, you can't see a physical therapist unless a physician gives you a prescription for it.
Orthopods are predisposed to surgery. that's where they get the big fees. Also, although I am a fairly intelligent person, I was not properly doing the exercises because the damn stick figures in the diagram are inadequate to demonstrate the proper way to perform exercises. These diagrams will work as reminders after you have worked with a PT who makes sure that you learn to do them correctly. In my case, the PT determined that my knee caps had significantly moved out of alignment, resulting in weakness and repeated falls. Using a combination of exercise, massage, heat treatments, and taping, my problem was FIXED in a matter of months. If I had NOT gone to the PT, I would have continued to suffer injuries until I would have been forced to have surgery.