Living with knee osteoarthritis can be a massive challenge to your lifestyle.

It can make the simplest of tasks feel impossible. Things like getting up to visit the bathroom in the morning to walking around a large store.

But there are ways to treat knee osteoarthritis naturally for long-term relief, despite what your friends, family, and even your doctor may have told you. Even in cases where doctors have recommended knee replacement surgery!

Knee osteoarthritis is typically caused by muscle imbalances where the muscles on one side of the hip and thigh become too weak, making the muscles on the other side relatively too strong. This causes bad forces to go through the knee joint. Over time, the extra pressure damages the cartilage and bone.

Doctors treat knee osteoarthritis by telling their patients to rest, take pain medications as needed, or visit them for injections if it gets really bad. Basically, wait for the knee to deteriorate enough to need knee replacement surgery.

They’ll show patients their knee x-rays and point out how the spacing between the thigh bone and the shin bone is smaller than it should be. They might even show you changes in the bone that are visible and tell you that your cartilage is worn out. If the bones look like they’re touching on the x-ray, then they’ll say that you have a “bone-on-bone” knee joint. They’ll use that as a reason to have surgery.

But what these doctors have no clue about is how muscle imbalances work and how they’re the real root of the problem. They also don’t think that it’s possible to improve the knee joint from the way it looks on the x-rays. These doctors rarely, if ever, consider what is happening at your hip and foot, two important areas that HIGHLY influence the pressure at the knee joint.

X-rays, MRIs and CT scans are just snapshots of the inside of the knee. They show what the knee joint looks like at the time of the image. If the root problem of knee osteoarthritis is a muscle imbalance, then it’s going to cause lots of compression in your knee joint and even give the appearance of a “bone-on-bone” knee joint.

What would happen if you take off the pressure? Could the x-ray look better? These are questions that doctors don’t think to ask, because they’re so focused on treatment with medications, injections and surgery. After all, they’re doctors of medicine, with some who have specialties in surgery.

Here at my knee specialist clinic, we treat knee osteoarthritis by correcting the muscle imbalances around the knee joint to decompress it naturally. This is how you can get natural relief. Taking pressure off will allow the cartilage to heal, the fluid build up to reduce (for a Baker’s Cyst), the stiffness to go away, and the mobility to come back.

Finally, we also strongly believe that you should be able to keep these improvements for the long-term if we can help show you what to do. And it’s not keeping up an hour’s worth of exercises and stretches every day for the rest of your life. It may be an exercise once or twice a week and for some, there may not be any exercises needed at all. We work to make it as easy as possible for you.

At our El Paso clinic, we understand how difficult life with knee pain can be - because we’ve been helping people with chronic knee osteoarthritis pain, like you, for nearly 10 years.
If you want natural, medication-free relief from knee pain, so that you can enjoy an active, mobile and pain-free life, you will love what we can do for you!

Set up a free Discovery Visit today to find out how we can help you - our knee pain specialists would be happy to discuss your individual needs and create a personalized plan of action for fast knee pain relief without relying on pain medication, injections, or having a potentially unnecessary surgery.

Our natural and pain medication-free approach to treating knee pain means that you can get back to doing the things you love - without having to worry about your knee pain getting worse.

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El Paso, Texas 79903

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