Safe summer activities for your knees

With summer around the corner, comes more people partaking in outdoor exercises, and activities. While you are out and about, it’s important to take the necessary steps to make sure you are keeping yourself safe and preventing injuries where you can.  Your knees especially are susceptible to injury, being the largest joint in your body and are easily damaged. 

There are certain precautions you can take to avoid knee pain or injury this summer:

• Before exercising, warm up by walking, or another low impact activity. Stretch your hamstring, and quadriceps to relieve pressure on your knees.
  
  
• Make sure when you are out exercising or walking, you wear proper footwear. Proper fitting shoes can help you maintain balance and leg alignment when you walk or run.
  
  
• While biking its important to make sure that your seat is high enough so that pedaling wont strain your knees. 
  
  
• Try to avoid sudden changes in exercise intensity. Increase or decrease the force or duration gradually.
  
  
• Maintaining a healthy weight is also important for mainting knee health, so exercise is important, but procced safely.

If you do sustain a knee injury, treating it quickly is key. For minor injuries, doctors often recommend the RICE method (rest, ice, compression, and elevation) for the first 24 hours.  Physical therapy is another common treatment for knee conditions and injuries. 

Our experienced team of therapists here at Reddy Care Physical therapy have experience treating a variety of knee injuries and can design a treatment plan to help you get relief from your knee pain. Using a combination of different modalities such as, strengthening and stretching exercises, ultrasound technology, and laser therapy they can aid in the healing process.  They will work with you on your goals and even give you tips to keep your knees safe in the future.

You don’t have to suffer in pain, give us a call today to find out more about how physical therapy can help you!  

Reddy Care Great Neck (Great Neck Physical Therapy): 516-829-0030
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Reddy Care Physical & Occupational Therapy Reddy Care Physical & Occupational Therapy is an outstanding specialty service providing exceptional care and state-of-the-art treatments for the residents of Farmingdale and Great Neck, New York. The combination of innovative exercise programs, manual therapy, and technology together with the expertise of every member of the team enables Reddy Care Physical & Occupational Therapy to provide services that ensure superior clinical outcomes and consistently high patient satisfaction.