Knee Ligament Injuries
Ligaments are connective tissue that joins bone to bone. The job of the ligaments is to provide stability to joints. They can become injured by playing sports or doing activities that involve high impact, twisting, changing direction and quick movements.
The knee consists of 4 main ligaments:
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL)
- Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL)
- Lateral Collateral Ligament (LCL)
Common knee ligament Injury symptoms:
- Pain
- A audible pop/snap
- Bruising
- Swelling
- Inability to weight-bear
- Knee instability - giving way when walking
- Reduced knee range of motion
- Reduced strength
How Limitless Physiotherapy & Performance can help you:
Our Physiotherapists will help you to identify the root cause of your symptoms, to ensure you can not only become free from pain, but also improve your performance and prevent the injury from returning.
They will identify what ligament has become injured and derive specific rehab needed in order to reduce pain and improve performance.
Being in the centre of your leg, the knee plays a crucial part in performance and day to day movements, therefore needs to be able to tolerate loads being put through it.
At Limitless Physiotherapy & Performance, our Physiotherapists will help you to:
- Improve knee joint mobility
- Ease pain
- Improve joint stability
- Ensure your muscles from your foot, knee and hip are all coordinating well together during day to day and sporting movements
- Help you with activities such as running, walking, climbing stairs, cycling
- Improve your balance by strengthening your knee muscles and ensuring they can help you to have great balance
- Help you to improve your sporting performance
