Root Causes Of Knee Pain Most Commonly Overlooked By Your Doctor

The traditional approach to treating knee pain is NOT working. Pills and injections only mask symptoms and lead you closer to surgery. Therapies alone provide temporary relief but the pain always comes back. When these traditional approaches to treating knee pain fail - most people are being told it’s because of their arthritis, there’s nothing that they can do, and they should just give us their favorite activities all together. NOT TRUE.

Today we’ll cover the root causes of knee pain often overlooked by your doctor so you know exactly what to do to over come knee pain, keep active, and feel confident in your knee’s ability to do what you love.

Knee PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPMarch 23, 2021Evolve Performance HealthcarePortlandComment

Three Tips to Solving Knee Pain - Even When Nothing Else Has Worked

Knee pain is one of the most common things that keep people from being as active as they would like. The problem with most traditional therapies is they fail to address the root cause of knee pain - leaving people with temporary relief that often comes back weeks (if not days later).

The root cause of MOST knee pain are movement issues that have been compounded over months to years. This includes how we move (movement patterning), how much movement we have (mobility) and our ability to control that movement (strength). If you don’t fix those three things, it’s a guarantee that knee pain will come back.

In this weeks article we take a look at three ways to improve movement to solve knee pain - even when nothing else has worked.

Knee PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPMarch 8, 2021Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

The Ultimate Guide To Squat Progressions

The squat is one of the best exercises to improve movement patterning as well as building strength needed to protect our joints and avoid back, hip, and knee pain. When recovering from an injury or simply getting back into exercising it’s important to be able to progress and regress certain movements to meet you where your at and keep you safe.

Three Reasons to Avoid Steroid Injections For Pain - Even After Your Doctor Recommends One of Them

If you’ve gone to see a medical doctor for chronic knee, hip, shoulder or back pain, I can almost guarantee you that you’ll be recommended a steroid injection for pain. It’s their go-to treatment when pain pills aren’t enough. When recommending injections they often conveniently leave out or brush over all the negative long term side effects that injections have that lead to WORSE outcomes for their patients.

In today’s article we discuss three reasons for you to avoid steroid injections even after your doctor recommends them.

Critical Knee Pain Mistakes That Keep You From Being Active, Strong, And Doing What You Love

Everyday we work with individuals to overcome knee pain and we’ve often found that there are a lot of misconceptions and false beliefs that can actually hold us back from living the life we want. The following are the five critical mistakes we see people make when trying to recover from knee pain and some tips on what you can do to avoid them.

Knee Pain, Pain Relief, Portland ChiropractorDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPOctober 14, 2020Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Why Do My Knees Hurt When I Run?

While a seemingly low impact activity - running can be one of the most injurious sports out there. And one of the most common injuries we see from runners is knee pain. We’ve been speaking to and helping runners get back to their routine for the last 10 years and today we discuss three of the most common reasons runners experience knee pain and what they can do to fix it.

Running, Knee PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPSeptember 1, 2020Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Three Keys to Overcoming Pain And Getting Back To Doing What Makes You Happy - Even When Nothing Else Has Worked

With most things in life, but especially in healthcare and the pain management world, we tend to overthink things. And the result is over-complicated solutions that don’t really get to the heart of the problem. We’ve been helping people get out of pain - even when nothing else has worked - for the last 10 years and found that the most commonly overlooked and under treated aspect of someone’s health - which we discuss in this month’s article.

Chronic Pain, Knee Pain, Back PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPAugust 19, 2020Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Three Often Overlooked Causes of Knee Pain

When you have knee pain, If your doctor is only looking at your knee there is a problem!

Summer weather means more opportunities for hiking, biking, running and walking! An unfortunate side effect of more fun summer activities can be more knee pain for some individuals. We’ve worked with 100’s of individuals struggling with knee pain get back to their favorite activities and I can say with 100% certainty that any (non-traumatic) cause of knee pain can be attributed to a problem elsewhere in the body. Today we’ll discuss three of the more common things to look at to finally find a solution to your knee pain.

Knee PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPJuly 1, 2020Evolve Performance Healthcare

The Top Five Things You Can Do To Hike With Less Knee Pain

Prime hiking season is almost here - and with the governor set to reopen some of Oregon and Washington’s natural areas now is the perfect time to start prepare your body for your favorite summer activities so you can truly enjoy your favorite hikes with friends.

The unfortunate truth is that we meet a lot of people are dealing with knee pain and worry that it may limit their favorite outdoor activities. In this weeks article we’ve put together the Top 5 things you can do to hike with less knee pain this summer.

Knee PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPMay 14, 2020Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Three Reasons Your Knee Pain Keeps Coming Back Even After Physical Therapy and Chiropractic Care

There’s nothing more frustrating than investing time and money in solving a problem like knee pain - only to have the pain come back years, months, even days later. In this weeks article we cover three reasons your knee pain keeps coming back even after traditional physical therapy and chiropractic care.

How to Exercise With Less Pain So You Can Reach Your New Years Goals

We love this time of year! It’s that time when everyone is feeling motivated to better themselves. They’re eating better, exercising more, and setting big goals that they want to achieve in the new decade. But what if you’re dealing with back, shoulder, knee pain or any other issue?

One of the main reasons people come to see us is because they are being forced to sit out their favorite exercise routine because of nagging aches and pains or worry that their pain will get worse. One of the worst things you can do is ignore any pain you may be experiencing. We’ve been doing this a long time and one thing we can assure you is that pain doesn’t go away on it’s own and often gets worse.

We don’t want to see this happen to you which is why we wanted to share some tips and tricks to be sure you can stay active and strong through the entire year!

Back Pain, Fitness, Knee PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPJanuary 14, 2020Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Three Keys to Overcoming Knee Pain So You Can Enjoy All Your Favorite Winter Activities

One of the best parts about winter is all the activities available to us….especially here in Portland. Skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, cross country skiing are all within a few hours drive. They’re a great way to get out with friends and enjoy getting outside - which is why it can be so frustrating to miss out on those activities because of knee pain - or fear of further aggravating an old knee injury

In this weeks article we discuss the three keys to overcoming knee pain so you don’t have to miss out on your favorite winter activities.

Knee PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPDecember 4, 2019Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Why Strength Training NEEDS to be Part of the Solution to Maintaining Your Active Lifestyle

Annoying, nagging pain keeping you from enjoying your favorite activities? We can guarantee that you need to get stronger. In this article we discuss the benefits of adding a movement and strength program to your current healthcare routine that will help you stay active, strong, and doing what you love.

Back Pain, Fitness, Knee PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPApril 1, 2019Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Five Foundational Movements to Overcome Pain and Move With Confidence

Hang around us long enough and you’ll hear us blab on and on about the importance of improving movement and strength. But simply asking someone to ‘improve their movement’ isn’t very helpful. There is no cookie cutter approach to improving movement because every hobby and activity has it’s own requirements. How do we know where do we start? Movement is built on basic, fundamental principles. Developing an understanding and ability to perform, strengthen and master the following five movements create results that carry over into any activity you choose to perform:

Back Pain, Knee Pain, MovementDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPMarch 11, 2019Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

How to Avoid Knee Pain With Lunging So You Can Stay Active In The Gym

The lunge is one of the most ‘functional’ fitness related exercises – meaning that it most readily translates to real world activities. Walking, running, hiking, jumping all require the same muscle groups we train with lunges.

Here’s the unfortunate truth, if you crank out forward lunges for long enough, it will eventually lead to discomfort, pain and injury to your knees. It doesn’t matter how perfect your form is - the nature of the forward lunge puts a lot of force through you knee and patellar tendon. Today we’ll discuss variations of the lunge to help protect your knees

Knee Pain, Movement, LungesDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPDecember 27, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareKnee Injury, knee painComment

Five Ways To Run Farther With Less Knee Pain

Often viewed as a ‘safe’ choice for getting back into shape - a recent systematic review has shown that up to 92.5% of runners experience pain from running - with the most common location being at the knee.

In this weeks article we discuss five ways to protect your you body and experience less knee pain on your runs.

Running, Knee PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPSeptember 12, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareKnee Pain, RunningComment

How To Ease Knee Pain On Runs Through Lateral Chain Strengthening

A lack of functional strength can be linked to a majority of injuries sustained by runners. Strengthening our lateral chain of muscles can help recover and prevent many of the injuries common to runners, from plantar fasciosis to IT Band syndrome.

Treating Knee Pain By Improving Terminal Knee Extension

Anyone who has undergone knee surgery or is experiencing knee pain should check if they can get into full knee extension. Learn an easy test to determine your ability to get into full knee extension and the best mobilization to fix knee extension issues.

Should You Wear a Brace To Treat Back and Knee Pain?

Braces are often seen as a way to prevent injury while playing sports and at the gym. But are they effective?

Treating Knee Pain By Improving Hip Strength

Knee pain is very seldom caused by issues at the knee. To properly rehabilitate knee pain we need to look at causes elsewhere in the body and when we do that, we find that our deficiencies at our hips are often primary contributors.