 Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy.
Are you trying to get back into fitness and for whatever reason, your knees are killing you every time you try to do a squat and it's completely derailing your fitness goals. I mean, what Aerus class can you do without squatting? What fitness program in general, like any weight lifting, all requires you to be able to squat. How do you progress in your fitness if your knees bother you? For many people, if you're looking through the internet, You're probably like “this is my last leg. If my knees are just not gonna tolerate squatting, I'm just gonna give up doing this fitness thing, because it's just not worth the knee pain.”
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 Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. Are you wondering why you have knee pain after going rollerblading? This video is perfect for you and it got inspired by Shandra. Shandra called me very frantic and very worried that she was gonna need surgery after going rollerblading with her kids. Shandra's telling me that she used to go rollerblading all the time as a kid. They would get dropped off at the rink, be there for hours. It was a wonderful memory and she thought she was gonna be able to share that with her kids. Well, she did actually share that with her kids, but now she's worried that she needs surgery or that she broke something. She's just very anxious when she calls me.
So in this video, I'm gonna go over what happened and why Shandra started having pain and what you can do right now, if that is your situation. If you're having knee pain right now, what can you do today? Then ultimately how Shandra got out of this knee pain without surgery.  Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. Are you wondering how to walk on the beach without hurting afterwards? This is a video for you. So let's talk about a few strategies that you can do right now. Let's say your trip is coming up this weekend and you just need to know what to do so that you're not laid up on the couch for two days or whatever afterwards, because your foot, your knee or your hip are just killing you. Then after that, I'm gonna talk to you a little bit about what you could do. If you have time to prepare for going to the beach and walking on the beach is important to you, and you wanna know how to make sure that you can continue to do that activity for years to come. That will be in the second part of this video.
 Hi. I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. Did you recently go rollerblading and now you're wondering, why on earth do my shins hurt this much. This is the perfect video for you. I'm gonna go over why it is that your shins hurt. The front of your lower leg, why that's hurting, then I'm gonna give you some tips on how to get it to stop hurting. At the end of the video, I will let you know how it is that we could work together and get you those results a lot faster.
 Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. If you have just rolled or have ever rolled your ankle doing an aerobics class, like one of those fitness classes at the gym, this is a perfect video for you. In this video, I'm gonna talk about Martha and her journey after she rolled her ankle. We're gonna talk about why it is not as easy as it seems like it should be to recover from rolling your ankle and how to make sure you recover fully. That way you can get back to all the things that you love without that sense that your ankle is just not strong. So let's get into the story about Martha.
Martha did not actually like working out, not at all. She was completely against it. Until she got into her forties, when she realized that it was harder for her to lose weight and her knee pain was so bad that she knew she needed to do something to help herself out. This was getting right past COVID. She wasn't really interested in going places, but she knew that she couldn't do it on her own. She knew that she needed help to stay motivated and to even know what to do. She found a small gym, so she felt much more comfortable in relation to COVID and just being around a bunch of people. In that small gym, they had aerobics classes and she was thinking that this was a great idea, because now she doesn't have to know how to work any of the equipment. She didn't have to feel self-conscious, there's other people there. So she thought that that would just be a very easy transition for her into this thing that she didn't really want to do anyway.  Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. If sciatica is taking the joy out of your weekend cycling, this is the video for you. So I met Aaron about, I don't know, six to eight months ago, something to that effect. He had been suffering from sciatic pain for months. He had pain If he sat for too long, he was getting residual pain, even if he took too long of a walk. It was going from his butt all the way down his leg at some points and so he had been dealing with that for a long time. He was like, it was relatively minor and I could get into positions and it just went away. It was fine and it didn't interrupt me going for bike rides on the weekend. Which was his main thing. That's his main source of entertainment and how he hung out with friends, see Aaron would get on his bike and ride 30 or so miles.
Their goal would be to hit some bar that had a patio so they could hang out, drink, have lunch, and then they would ride back. That was basically their entire Saturday, him and his friends. And so that was something that he habitually did and he really, really enjoyed it. So his back pain bothering him at work, didn't really affect his bike riding. He sort of ignored it and put it on the back burner assumed it would get better eventually and just was ignoring it.  Have you ever been curious if your posture affects your ability to run or how well you can run, how fast you can run, or maybe you've been curious if your posture is causing some form of joint pain. These are some of the things that I wanna answer in this video, my name is Dr. Molly, and I'm with your Goals Physical Therapy. This is national posture month, I am super excited, and I thought I would do an entire series on how posture can affect different sports.
In this video, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna talk about what posture is, how it directly relates to each individual sport. This week I'm gonna talk about how posture affects running and then some common injury, just to see if you're on the right path. If you're dealing with something yourself, and maybe you have questions about what's going on with you. I'm gonna give two examples of things that can be tied into your posture, like running injuries that can be tied into your posture, and then what you do about that, because why talk about it unless we can come up with a solution to the problem.  Recently, I was asked a question that I thought a lot of people might want to know the answer to. I was asked why on earth are we training my feet when it's my knee that hurts? My name is Dr. Molly and I'm with Your goals Physical Therapy. Let me explain how this question came about. I am working with somebody who came in complaining of knee pain. She literally feels a knot in the back of her knee and then with that, she's getting tingling in her leg. Which is very alarming, especially since she used to be a runner. However, because of some ITband issues then going to the doctor and being told her ITband, needs to rest and maybe she shouldn’t go back to running. She rested it, her ITband issues went away and she transitioned out of running. She conceded that obviously something was going on with the running. It just wasn't fun because she was always injured even though she is at heart, an avid runner and absolutely loves that sport, she has taken into weight training to replace that adrenaline rush. She really likes the adrenaline rush and the surge and the quickness from playing tennis and running. She just likes being very active. But now she's got this injury. She was doing a knee extension, where you bend your knee on a machine, the machine that has a bar underneath your ankle and you pull your ankles down, bending your knee. She was on that and she felt a very dramatic pop in the back of her knee. She told her trainer I'm done. I'm not doing that anymore. That hurt. I don't like it.
 Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy, boxing is so much fun. It used to be that you could only hit heavy bags or hit pads, if you went to a boxing gym, like a place that only did boxing. But now it's becoming increasingly more popular to have boxing kind of sprinkled into the workouts, or have your trainer be able to box with you. Which I think is fabulous. But it has brought in a lot of people asking me why their knees hurt when they're pivoting. Everybody that comes to me with this problem, has been shocked their knees hurt. Naturally when you think of boxing, you think of it as being an upper body activity. Even though they tell you to stay on this way, you are moving your whole body. You really only think about injuries of boxing being an upper body, specifically more shoulder and wrist. Right? Well, it isn't that uncommon to have knee pain when you're pivoting.
And so in this video, I want to go over what can be causing the knee pain and then how you can get rid of that knee pain. That way we can all calm our minds down and not blame our poor knees on just being weak because that's what a lot of people do. They try boxing because they know that their legs are weak and they’ve always had knee problems or knee pain. And this is just one more thing that gets added onto their bad knees. Well, it's not your knees. Okay. So let's talk about a few reasons that your knees would have extra stress while you're boxing.  Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical therapy. Recently, my family invested in bikes. My son is six and I was able, up until very recently, to run next to him while he was riding his bike, to make sure he's safe, but he can now bike faster and for longer distances than I'm able to run to keep up with him. So we have decided to buy bikes so now everybody in the family has them. My daughter is a little young, so she now rides on the back, but this opened up a whole other world that I had almost forgotten about because I'm such an avid runner. Bike riding is a lot of fun, especially when you have green space around your house. So you don't have to deal with traffic and your six year old.
This new adventure reminded me of a patient I had about two years ago named Nicole. Nicole was 47. Nicole had three boys that were in high school and their favorite thing on the weekend was to go for bike rides, probably along the same kind of green green spaces that are behind my neighborhood as well. She called very frustrated that she wasn't able to bike without her knee popping and clicking. It was kind of freaking her out because sometimes it would swell up afterwards. Just thinking about all that popping and clicking was taking the joy out of spending time with her family. She was telling me that she just wants to find out what the problem is. And her doctor told her “there was nothing wrong with her ligaments, there was nothing wrong with the muscles. They just couldn't find anything on the x-ray, it's probably just arthritis.” |
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