Exercises For Knee Pain

Knee pain is a very common problem that not only affect athletes but many ordinary people as well and doing exercises for knee pain can be very beneficial.  In this article I have outlined some basic exercises to help reduce knee pain.

As we all know, we should be doing some form of physical exercise each and every day to maintain a healthy body and also to help reduce the chances of joint injuries.  However, sometimes injuries do happen and we need to reduce knee pain.

Although exercises are usually used to keep your body fit they can also be used to help reduce pain.  Properly done and with professional guidance exercises can be very effective in treating injuries, especially joint injuries and for rehabilitation following knee surgery.  The reason for this is that they help strengthen the muscles and ligaments around the joints thus making the joints more stable.

What to do for knee pain?

This is also relevant to the knee joint and doing exercises for knee pain can be very effective in reducing the pain.  But what is the best exercise for bad knees?  The simple answer is there are many depending on the of knee injury.  Here are three simple knee pain exercises.

Knee Exercise Number One

This is a very simple exercise for a bad knee.

While keeping your body straight, put your left leg forward and bend both of the knees.  Hold for a couple of seconds and then slowly straighten the knees.  Do the same with the right leg.  This is not only a good exercise to help knee pain but also helps to strengthen the thighs.

Knee Exercise Number Two

While lying on the floor and using a towel underneath your thighs to act as a support, stretch both legs out and keep them on the floor.  While keeping your legs straight, slowly raise one foot about 6 inches off the floor and hold in that position for 5 to 10 seconds.  Now slowly lower your foot back to the floor while bending the knee.  Repeat this exercise a minimum of 10 times for each leg.

Knee Exercise Number Three

This may exercise is a little bit more complicated but is very effective.

Again lie on the floor but this time bend your knees so that the soles of the feet are flat on the floor.  Now while sucking in your belly button and clinching your bottom, slowly raise your body off the floor and point it towards the roof.  Hold that position for about 2 to 3 seconds and then slowly lower your body half way back to the floor.  Repeat this exercise remembering three main things:

• Keep Your Tummy Sucked in.
• Keep your bottom clenched.
• Don’t lower your body completely to the floor.

Start by doing 5 to 10 of this exercise for knee pain and slowly increase the number of sets.

Although these exercises for knee pain are quite simple, if you do them regularly and slowly increase the number of sets of each they can be very beneficial in helping to reduce knee pain.

 

 

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