by Joshua T. Wall | Knee, Osteoarthritis, Pain & Injury, Physiotherapy
Pain on the inner side of the knee. Worse going up stairs, worse on hills, sore at night when your knees touch in bed. You may even have had a scan that came back reassuring, and yet the knee still complains every single day. Here is a possibility that surprises many...
by Joshua T. Wall | Knee, Musculoskeletal, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine
Noticed a soft lump or a feeling of fullness behind your knee? It is unsettling, and it sends a lot of people straight to a late-night search. The most common explanation is a Baker’s cyst, also called a popliteal cyst, which is a pocket of joint fluid that has...
by Joshua T. Wall | Knee, Musculoskeletal, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine
When a kneecap dislocates, it is painful, alarming and hard to forget. The kneecap (the patella) usually slips to the outer side of the knee during a twist, a jump-landing or a knock, and even once it is back in place, one question tends to dominate: will it happen...
by Joshua T. Wall | Ace Sports Medicine, Knee, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine
If your active teenager is complaining of pain at the front of the knee, just below the kneecap, especially during or after sport, there is a good chance it is Osgood-Schlatter disease. It sounds alarming, but it is a common and usually manageable part of a growing,...
by Joshua T. Wall | Knee, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine
Being told you have a meniscus tear can be unsettling, especially if the word surgery comes up in the same sentence. The good news is that for many people, a torn meniscus does not automatically mean an operation, and the right answer depends a lot on what kind of...
