Knee Pain Treatment in Athens PA

At Horn Family Chiropractic, we understand how knee pain can impact your mobility and lifestyle. Our professional team is committed to guiding you every step of the way on your healing journey.

Daily wear and tear, minor traumas and major injuries throughout our lifetimes can cause lasting effects on our knee joints. Our bodies will naturally compensate for these injuries at an attempt to allow the damaged joints to heal on their own. Over time these small compensations and changes can create imbalances that result in uneven wear patterns to the knee joint. This chronic imbalance and damaged tissue can create painful irritation to and around the knee joint called osteoarthritis.

Chronic knee pain in the U.S. is incredibly common and incredibly misunderstood. The standard medical approach is to identify the damaged tissue and either, inject the damaged tissue with steroids, Inject the joint with a lubricating gel or shave down the rough surfaces of an already worn-down meniscus.

While these approaches provide temporary relief they ignore the factors that lead to the knee damage in the first place. This approach generally ends in the need for a knee replacement surgery.

• Osteoarthritis/ Arthritis - Occurs when the cartilage in the knee breaks down. The knee becomes stiff, achy, and often times swells up. Think about what our knees go through every day just supporting our body weight as we walk, stand, and bend. We put added stress on our knees throughout our lives from sports, hobbies, carrying excess body weight, and occupational stresses such as standing on concrete or repetitive bending and kneeling. All of these factors tend to increase the break down process of the joint.
• Ligaments and Meniscus Injuries - the ligaments and the meniscus are often injured due to the twisting, turning and pressure put on the knee joint during work and various sports like wrestling, basketball, soccer, and football which all tend to have an increased risk for knee injuries.
• Patellar Tendonitis - this large tendon over the front gets irritated and inflamed. It’s often called jumpers knee, and if left untreated can result in tendon tears. Patellar tendonitis occurs from overuse. You’re more likely to get it if you participate in activities that put repeated stress on the knee, such as track and field, volleyball, and gymnastics.
• Chondromalacia Patella - is a dull achy pain under the kneecap due to softening of the cartilage. The pain gets worse when walking up and down stairs, squatting and kneeling.
• Osgood-Schlatter Disease - a condition seen in adolescents and is due to irritation of the growth plate just at the front of the knee joint.
• Dislocating Kneecap – the kneecap slides out of place and causes chronic knee pain.
• Baker's Cyst - A Baker's cyst is swelling in the back of the knee joint, and is usually a sign of another underlying problem such as a meniscus tear.
• Bursitis – occurs when the bursa just above the kneecap gets irritated and inflamed. This is most common in people who kneel for work, such as gardeners or carpet layers.
  Plica Syndrome - is an uncommon cause of knee pain, and can be difficult to diagnose. The diagnosis is usually made at the time of arthroscopy.
• Osteochondritis Dissecans - is another condition seen in adolescents due to the growth of the bone around the joint.
• Gout – patients usually suffer from intense pain in the knee that can be accompanied by swelling, redness and a warm feeling to touch

If you suffer from knee pain call Horn Family Chiropractic in Athens PA today. We offer some of the most advanced non-surgical treatments available to help you overcome this painful problem.

At HFC, we’re not satisfied with masking your pain/symptoms, or telling you to go home and live with it. We start with a thorough exam that evaluates the joints, muscles, and nerves around the knees as well as the hips, ankles, and low back. This gives us a much clearer picture of how to correct the movement patterns and muscle imbalances that cause most of the actual pain symptoms around a damaged knee.

Utilizing our advanced training, specialized rehabilitation equipment, specific nutritional protocols and soft tissue mobilization we see improvement in at least 90% of our knee patients within just two visits. Even those that have been diagnosed as bone-on-bone arthritis.

• We see patients every day who are frustrated and hopeless due to their chronic knee pain. As they complete our program they are able to walk away with a new lease on life. We would love to see you have the same success! If you are interested in a solution for your knee pain, simply give us a call or click the link below!
• Throughout this program, we offer our patients direct access right from their phone or computer to educational webinars, accountability calls, check-ins, and support while the body heals and becomes stronger.

Schedule a complimentary one-on-one consultation to speak with a doctor about your concerns and current challenges. If you qualify for our care, you will get a personalized solution to your knee pain and begin your path to wellness today!