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ellenrr

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Thu Apr 30, 2015, 11:57 AM Apr 2015

these exercises have really helped my knee [View all]

some of you may remember I had a torn meniscus over 1 year ago. (march 2014).
I've done about 8-9 months of physical therapy.
Definitely it helped; initially I could barely drag myself from bedroom to bathroom.

when my medicare coverage for p.t. ran out about 6 weeks ago, someone turned me on to Robin McKenzie
(online).
he has exercises for knee, back, hip and neck. maybe more.
The knee exercises are simple and take just over 2 minutes to do.

When I started doing them, I felt intuitively that they were right for my knee.
He says to do them every 2 hours.
I can't do them every 2 hours. I do them when I can and when I think of them - several times a day.
Once when my right hip hurt, I did the hip exercise for that.

They work!
at least for me.
My knee is better than it has been. P.t. got me so far, but it didn't seem like I would go any further.
Now I definitely feel improvement, altho I am not where I was before the injury happened.

thought I'd tell others about them.
If anyone else does them, I'd be interested to know how/if they work for you.

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