Physical therapy treatment for knee pain due to muscle imbalance can be very successful.
When Mike Graves was in high school in upstate New York, he was a standout wrestler. Prior to his senior year, he figured to be a state championship contender if he could overcome one stubborn opponent: persistent — often excruciating — knee pain.
“I had been to different doctors and tried everything — even cortisone shots,” he recalls. “Nothing worked.”
Nothing, that is, until he sought treatment from a physical therapist — one who showed him that, while the pain was radiating from his right knee, it was being caused by specific factors elsewhere.