One of the treatments we commonly take our patients through is therapeutic exercise. So how does therapeutic exercise help decrease your pain?

A good example I'd like to use is when you do therapeutic exercise for your knee—it stimulates the production of synovial fluid, which is the body's natural lubricant.

The friction coefficient of water on ice is between 0.1 and 0.2, whereas the friction coefficient of synovial fluid is between 0.001 and 0.02. And friction coefficient is just a fancy term for how slippery something is. Based on the numbers, synovial fluid is roughly 10 to 100 times more slippery than water on ice. That's very slippery! And that's good for our knee joints because it helps them move better, which in turn decreases pain.

If you feel like your knee is a little “rusty,” would you like some natural lubricant? When patients come to us for knee pain, we stretch the knee, do some dry needling, and follow up with therapeutic exercises. It's HARD not to feel better afterward.

If that sounds like something you'd like, reach out to us so you can experience the power of therapeutic exercise!