Treat Your Own Knee™

From the Worldwide Best-Selling Treat Your Own Series, this Book Offers Knee Pain Relief Strategies to Help You Get Better and Stay Better

Written by physiotherapist Robin McKenzie, Treat Your Own Knee™ offers a system of self-treatment that you can do anytime pain arises. Better yet, you can apply this system of treatment to yourself in order to reduce the likelihood of recurrence of pain. This system is called the McKenzie Method®, developed by Robin McKenzie who worked with more than 20,000 patients over the course of his 40 years of practice helping patients reduce and sometimes eliminate knee pain, leg pain, joint pain and more.

This guide offers an understanding of how the knee works and how overstretching and overloading of soft tissues around the knee can lead to mechanical knee pain as well as tissue damage. You’ll learn about common causes of knee pain and lifestyle factors that contribute to knee pain, as well as ways to manage and avoid pain by improving lifestyle habits, knee health and joint health. Lastly, you’ll be given an exercise program that includes a sequence of simple knee therapy exercises that will enable you to successfully self-treat your knee condition and could help you avoid surgery and knee replacement.

A Comprehensive Patient Handbook

Color photos and simple step-by-step instructions show you how to perform the exercises for effective knee treatment. In addition to this exercise program, you’ll discover when to do the exercises, how to know if you are performing the exercises correctly, what to do when the pain has subsided, and how to prevent recurrence of pain. This patient handbook provides an easy-to-follow self-treatment plan to quickly and effectively diagnose, alleviate, treat and manage debilitating knee and related pains, even for the long-term sufferer.

In Treat Your Own Knee you’ll learn:

The problem with MRIs
Myths about knee pain
The anatomy of the knee and how the knee works
The basics of mechanical knee pain
Common causes of knee pain and how to manage it
How the McKenzie Method® works
McKenzie Method® stretches and exercises to help treat and prevent knee pain
Lifestyle habits to help treat and prevent knee pain

About the Author

Robin McKenzie, _{CNZM, OBE, FCSP (Hon), FNZSP (Hon), Dip MDT, Dip MT}

World-renowned Physiotherapist Robin McKenzie devoted more than 40 years to developing a system of examination and treatment for non-specific spinal mechanical pain, known as the McKenzie Method®. The McKenzie Method® offers an easy-to-follow self-treatment plan that includes education and exercises to quickly and effectively diagnose, treat and help decrease or alleviate debilitating pain, even for the long-term sufferer. This revolutionary self-treatment plan has empowered hundreds of thousands of people to treat their own pain.

McKenzie Method® Books and Supports

Robin McKenzie created the world's first lumbar roll in 1968. The Original McKenzie® line now includes lumbar and cervical supports for people of all sizes and preferences. His series of Treat Your Own books has grown to address mechanical pain throughout the body.

From the Back Cover

This is the fourth book in the best-selling Treat Your Own series, with the first two, Treat Your Own Back™ and Treat Your Own Neck™, being translated in to 18 different languages and selling over 6 million copies worldwide. Numerous international studies have confirmed that the McKenzie Method® allows sufferers to take control of their own pain and postural management, avoid surgery and a long-term costly dependence upon clinicians―thereby reflecting Robin McKenzie’s selfless determination to put the patient first and empower self-care.