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Have any of you with knee pain, maybe early osteoarthritis, been offered the chance to go to a physio run group exercise class?
Just wanting to see if such a thing exists. I know it does for folk who've had knee replacements, or a due to go for one shortly, but do they iexist anywhere for earlier stage stuff?
(I dont have any knee pain btw)
Cheers,
G.
Not for knee pain but I have done group physio classes. Foam roller and general mobility stuff as well as stretching, core strength etc all ran by our physio. Awesome class and it's helped me so much when I've been injured.
Anyone else?
No, I have not been offered for physio run group exercises though I had been working out some of the exercises for knee pain. Also some massaging were provided that had helped in relieving the pain.
I know that in Cardiff the physios organise several circuits style classes for all sorts of problems including ankle rehab, knee rehab, shoulder rehab etc.
Any such classes for total knee replacement patients in your area would essentially be the same as those which may benefit someone with earlier stage problems except the expectations for completion of a specific exercise are different.
For example, in the group classes I did there were people getting over cruciate ligament damage, total knee replacement and people like myself with undiagnosed yet severe knee pain. There were three levels of each exercise so those towards the end of the rehab did the harder variations.
That said other hospital in Cardiff with smaller physio departments only offer these classes to total knee replacement patients, although most of these patients find far more benefit with hydrotherapy (same type of exercises but in water to reduce weight bearing).
I did not find the classes directly useful as the knee was very painful during a lot of the exercises. It was very useful for identifying aspects of strength, balance, etc which I found particularly challenging however which meant that I could feed more information to the physio I was seeing one to one and therefore make sure I was really getting to the root of the problem (rather than just going through a list of general exercises with the one to one physio until we stumbled on something that seemed to help).
I hope all of that makes sense and is maybe even useful! 🙂
I would also add (and echo BoardinBob) that most people with knee pain will find a lot of relief in through stretching and using a foam roller religiously. As soon as my muscles/ ITB/ etc start to get tight the pain gets worse so I am a foam roller convert 🙂