What are some holistic treatments for knee pain?

Some holistic treatments for knee pain include the use of arnica gel or calming balms, and regularly icing the knee to lessen inflammation and soothe pain. Watch as physical therapist Peggy Brill discusses a few natural treatments for knee pain.

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PEGGY BRILL: Icing is really, really important for the knees. What we see is that inflammation is what we wanna control.

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Somebody has, like, an acute injury to their knee. And they have bruising. Like, let's say they fell down on their knee. There's a couple of things we do.

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There is arnica cream is something that I've incorporated a lot more. I find that just helps to get the capillaries to heal.

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There's a lot of research that talks about that. Shrinking the swelling down there, again, because we wanna manage that swelling as soon as possible.

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And the other thing is sometimes a bio freeze or, like, a [INAUDIBLE],, whatever helps take away, block some of those sensory of the hypersensitivity of a tissue

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if it's been hurt. Those things will help in the cycle of pain, weakness,

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dysfunction. It doesn't cure it. But it definitely is part of one of the modalities we'll use.

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Icing is really, really important for the knees. What we see is that inflammation is what we wanna control. So I would ice 10 to 15 minutes every day.

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Put a little towel roll or a little pillow underneath your knees so the knee's a little bit bent with the ice on that.