Hi Joey,

My goal with the articles and videos that I share is to help you think more critically about WHY your have your pains, injuries, and movement restrictions AND for you to have tools to address it in such a way to provide you with long term health and function.

Let's take knee pain and injury for example.

The middle picture below shows the ankle, knee hip complex in optimal alignment. The picture to the left and right exhibit ways that the leg can misalign.

Try this:

March up and down with a relaxed, elongated posture and notice how that feels on your leg and knee.

Next, gently position your leg in the alignment on the picture below on the left, and carefully march up and down. Does that feel any differently on your knee?

You can try the same thing with the alignment of the picture below on the right.

For those of us who've had knee issues, specifically on the inside or outside of the knee (ie. LCL/MCL or medial/lateral meniscus tears), let's ponder this questions:

Is the CAUSE is due to the knee itself OR is the knee the weakest link in an entire chain of postural events throughout your body?

The picture below might help guide us to an answer:

In each step we take when walking, AND that much mores running, there's an incredible amount of stress that goes through the entire ankle, knee, hip complex. When the bones are in the right place and held there with the 'right muscles' (see 'Anti-Gravity Kinetic Chain'; Dr. Buser and Greus PT), this stress is evenly distributed throughout the body, making or walking easy and effortless (as in the picture below).

If, however, her knee collapses in or out, think about how much strain is going through the inside or outside of the knee??

You might've already felt it when doing the marching test!

In the short video below, I explain this mechanism and offer ONE exercise that you can do to help align your leg, thus reducing the strain on the knee. It's an approach that I'm using to help a number of clients who have had (or prepping the body for) knee replacement, and many other types of knee injuries.

I hope you enjoy and find benefit from watching the video.

As always, I welcome your thoughts, experiences with the exercise, and questions.

Best.

Joey Zimet, EdM, MS

Postural Therapist

(917) 589-5446

joey.zimet@gmail.com

www.meridianphysio.com/our-team

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