Category: Knee Pain

This study concluded that using hip exercises are superior to knee exercises.  They exercises the patients 3 times a week for 8 weeks.  The exercises that worked best were for the hip adductors and external rotators.  Here’s a video on how to exercise the hip abductors, and another one for strengthening the hip external rotators.…

Most patients in this study, with symptomatic MRI confirmed herniated discs treated with chiropractic type therapy, reported significant improvement with no adverse events. ~ Dr. Broussard J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2013 Oct;36(8):461-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2013.07.002. Epub 2013 Aug 12. Outcomes from magnetic resonance imaging-confirmed symptomatic cervical disk herniation patients treated with high-velocity, low-amplitude spinal manipulative therapy: a…

From the study….”Our data confirmed that approximately one in five primary total knee replacement patients were not satisfied with the outcome…” Despite substantial advances in primary TKA, numerous studies using historic TKA implants suggest only 82% to 89% of primary TKA patients are satisfied. We reexamined this issue to determine if contemporary TKA implants might…

This article shows that about 20% of the knee replacement patients were NOT satisfied with their surgery after one year.  That’s higher than I would have thought. ~ Dr. Broussard Patient Satisfaction after Total Knee Arthroplasty: Who is Satisfied and Who is Not? Robert B. Bourne, MD Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2010 Jan; 468(1): 57–63.…

This article says that tear size, tear location, and cartilage damage does not always correlate with the amount of pain that patients report. ~ Dr. Broussard What are the findings? Meniscal pathology features such as tear type, tear size and tear location identified at arthroscopy were not associated with preoperative self-reported knee pain and function…