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Stiff behind your knee? Try this...

2/21/2015

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Do you sometimes have stiffness behind the knee, and you haven't figured out yet how to keep it from happening? It happens to me once in a while after having my knees flexed for a while (there's a clue right there!), and if left untended just gets worse as I walk and move. 

BUT: until I and my body really figure out what the problem is, I've found that if I do this careful stretch I learned from biomechanist Katy Bowman (Restorative Exercise™), the tension and stiffness in the knee dissolve, and I can live on to figure it out another day. 


Here are instructions from Katy's blog: "Lie down with your belly flat on the floor. Reach one leg out to the side without bending the knees!  Relax your head and neck on your hands. Try to bring your leg up until it is at 90°.  . . If you have a hip replacement, only stretch the leg that has not been replaced."

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Sidewalk Emergency! Prone Inner Thigh Stretch
For DETAILS AND MODIFICATIONS
(along with a lot more babbling on my part) see: http://www.alignmentandmobility.com/blong/stiff-behind-the-knee

  • IMPORTANT: This doesn't make any difference in my knee stiffness unless I hold the position (RELAXING into it - not pushing!) for at least 1 minute.
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