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Your Feet are the Foundations of your Body
An Ankle Exercise to Strengthen Your Knee
Sit on a chair and stretch your leg out in front of you.
Use your foot as a pencil and pretend to write.
Your knee depends upon your ankle strength, so the more you can strengthen your ankles, the better.
Neuromuscular massage can help you maintain your range of motion and eliminate pain.
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Strengthening the Muscles around Your Knee
Strengthening the muscles around you knee helps to reduce stress on the knee joint.
Walking for 5 to 10 minutes can help warm the knee up.
Stretch both your quads (front) and hamstrings (back).
Functional exercises such as wall squats, step-ups, and balance exercises are great for knee strength.
Neuromuscular massage can help you maintain your range of motion and eliminate pain.
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Knee Pain from Non-Use
The more sedentary you are, the more likely you will be to develop pain in your joints when you do need to move.
When your knees are used regularly, they can get stiff and become less flexible.
Even a 10 minute walk every day can help with knee stiffness.
Neuromuscular massage can help you maintain your range of motion and eliminate pain.
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Stretch Your Hips
Here’s a way to stretch your hips with varying degrees of difficulty. You don’t have to have a fancy mat or balls to do this exercise. All you need is a can from the pantry.
Place the can closer to you for less stretch, farther away and farther to the side for more stretch.

Neuromuscular massage can help you maintain your range of motion and eliminate pain.
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Dealing with Frozen Shoulder
Adhesive capsulitis, or frozen shoulder, causes severe pain and limited mobility. It’s more common in women than in men, and the cause is unknown.
It responds well to cortisone shots, stretching exercises, and massage.
Neuromuscular massage can help to maintain your range of motion and ease the pain of a frozen shoulder.
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Recovering from a Knee Injury
If you have had a significant knee injury, you may need pain relief, physical therapy, massage and other therapies such as aquatherapy to regain muscle balance.
We strongly caution against the use of opioids, except immediately after surgery, and in order to withstand the rigors of physical therapy in the first few days after therapy begins.
Please work with your physician, physical therapist, and massage therapist, to reduce the need for opioids within a short period of time after surgery. Addiction to these drugs can be devastating.
Neuromuscular massage can help you regain your range of motion and eliminate pain.
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Knee Injury
Most knee injuries are caused from sudden stops or starts. Sudden pain in the knee should be evaluated for sprains or tears.
Once a diagnosis is made that does not involve surgery, massage can greatly relieve the pain of the injury.
Neuromuscular massage can help you maintain your range of motion and eliminate pain.
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Knee Stretch
Here’s a very gentle knee stretch, that you can do from home with a chair.

Neuromuscular massage can help you maintain your range of motion and eliminate pain.
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