Understanding Knee Pain
Knee pain is a common condition that doesn’t see any age group. Knee pain may happen due to injury, such as ruptured ligament or muscle tear. Also, there are certain medical conditions inviting knee pain – arthritis, gout, and infections.
You can treat minor knee pain with self-care measures and home workout. Sometimes, physical therapy and knee braces can give relief too. However, not every time these things work and in some cases, you may need to undergo knee surgery.
When anyone talks about knee pain, we generally focus on the knees. We start looking for measures that can treat knee pain and give us some sort of relief. But, this is a temporary thing and we will get relief for a time being. For permanent solution, we need to focus on all the muscles surrounding our knees and the cartilage and bone. For this, we need to make them stronger and here, Yogymummy will tell you how.
Our thigh bone is the largest bone present in our body, and we need to make it strong and sturdy so that your body weight won’t affect your knees. This will prevent knee deterioration. Secondly, the calf muscles and ankles are as important as your knees. You have to practice certain exercises or yoga asanas that will provide strength to these body parts and muscles.
Yogymummy guide for strengthening knees, thighs, and calf muscles to goodbye knee pain-
Stiffness prevents motion in our body. Here are special knee strengthening yoga exercises to prevent knee deterioration and give you healthy functioning knees.
Tools you will require-
Dupatta and Stool
- Trikon asana – This asana is meant for strength, stamina, and stability. It makes your legs flexible, stronger, and stable.
- Veer bhadra asana 2– You can take help of a stool to perform this asan. This asan will work on your thigh muscles. Stool will take your body weight and relax down your knees.
- Janu shirasana – You can use dupatta to hold feet if your hands don’t reach. This asana will make your calf muscles and knees stronger.
- Setubandh asana – Setubandha is much needed yoga asana to make your pelvic region stronger
- Apan asana – This is a counter pose to relax your spine and knees.
- Supt pad angushth asana – use belt or dupatta to give proper stretch to your leg/legs. This is one of the best knees strengthening asanas that any person of any age group can do.
These asanas can be performed under professional yoga instructor’s guidance.
It is advisable to see doctor when you are unable to bear weight on your knee or feel unstable knees, if there is swelling around knees, if you are unable to extend or flex your knee completely, if there is any kind of deformity in the leg or knee, if you have fever and redness, pain and swelling in your knees, or if the knee pain is associated with an injury.
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