Comments on: Joint Pain Relief 1 – Muscle Balancing

By: kareem

kareem — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:04:57 +0000

Hey Nathalie,

sure! I’d love to help…

High ankle sprains tend to keep coming back until you spend 6-8 weeks non weight-bearing (i.e. crutches) – sorry, I know this is a bummer, but that’s a reality.

By: Nathalie

Nathalie — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:19:08 +0000

Hey Kareem,
Thanks for all the great info!
I suffered from a high ankle sprain last year due to an injury at the gym. I thought it was well rehabilitated, but re-injured it doing alternating jumping lunges a month ago. It is not healing well. Do you have any advice?

By: Kaci

Kaci — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:36:50 +0000

Hi Dr. K
Thanks again for your active concern for us. I have a question about what to start on first. I know my core strength is abysmal so I started with the abs and back exercises. But, after doing them for two days just about all my joints hurt. Shoulders, elbows,wrists, lower back and knees. I tried very hard to have proper form. Do I do exercises to rehabilitate my joints first and then work on my core and then do the regular workout? And if so, what would exercises would help my joints?
Thanks again.

By: kareem

kareem — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:22:44 +0000

Hey Jan,

Thanks for the comment – sure, I’d be glad to show you some stuff you can do… I’ll try to film a video about this and post it to the blog tomorrow – a simple checkpoint system you can use to identify imbalances & restore joints

sound good?

have a great night,

-k

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:38:18 +0000

Hi Kareem,
I\’m a 49 year old tennis player (on a city USTA league) and I\’ve been plagued with some injuries that I\’d like advice about. First I had a shoulder injury (possible impingement) and the doc recommended physical therapy, which HAS helped a lot. But now I\’ve got tennis elbow. You talked about WHY we should exercise the various muscles, but I wonder if you could actually demonstrate more on the HOW. I like the ones the physical therapist started me on, but I think there are more that I could be doing. If you could show exercises that can be done at home it would be awesome, as I\’m not a member of a gym. I have several smaller weights and also stretch rubber bands. I know you\’re super busy now so no hurry, and don\’t sacrifice your own health (sleep deprivation) and family (grandfather), just to please all of us! We can wait a few extra days!!! Thanks so much.

By: kareem

kareem — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:14:38 +0000

sure, Mary. I’d be happy to do a video for you and try to help in any way I can… sorry things haven’t been going your way so far

By: mary

mary — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:11:41 +0000

Hi Dr K,
Good info. could you do a vid on knee-hip muscle imbalances? I went to a PT they said the usual–I have weak glutes and gave me a bunch of leg exercises to do (3 sets of 10 reps each) plus a walkiing program. I feel stiffer than when I went to see the PT! Something is wrong with this picture.

By: Kym

Kym — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:01:37 +0000

Thanks for the tip, bud. I don’t know much about vitamin K so I’ll have to check that out.

Enjoy your weekend and get yourself charged up with all those negative ions!

By: kareem

kareem — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:53:18 +0000

actually… i do! (i’m going hiking and tubing this weekend)

try increasing intake of vitamin K and vitamin E – you’ll heal faster… or so is said

By: kareem

kareem — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:52:15 +0000

Hey Jamaal,

another great question…

here’s what I have to say about that – what’s your exercise goal? rehab/strengthening of the rotator cuff, bulking, fat loss, general conditioning, etc?

(i know… another question for your question

if the goal is to strengthen the rotator cuff, then i’d advise you to make that the priority and exercise it first. Otherwise, it’s more sensible to work big muscle groups to small, as with any other exercise (i.e. bench press before tricep extensions or dips)