Is Your Posture Aggravating Your Knee Pain?
Is your posture aggravating your knee pain?
Do your knees hurt when you sit, stand or walk?
In this video, yoga teacher Catherine Carrigan explains how your posture may be making your knee pain worse.
Did you know:
1. That the position of your feet controls the position of your hips?
If your feet are out off kilter, your hips will be out of alignment.
If your hips are out of alignment your knees will suffer.
2. That if your feet are rolling out — also known as supination — there may be too much pressure on the outside of your knees.
Here’s the way to understand supination.
When one or both of your feet roll outward, they look like they could hold a bowl of soup.
Too much pressure on the outside of your knees can cause the tendons and ligaments to tear, the connective tissue inside the knees to become inflamed or the muscles to track improperly when you are squatting, bending or sitting.
3. That if your feet are rolling in — also known as pronation — there may be too much pressure on the inside of your knees.
Many people’s knees roll inwards when they squat, causing a major imbalance in the…
