Is meniscus injury worrying you? Considering surgery but feel like there’s a way out? Dr. Jen & Dr. Dom dive into the anatomy of the Menisci, potential causes, and which populations tend to be of higher risk. Then, Dr. Dom shares his journey with his Meniscus injury, speaking into his mistakes and his post-rehabilitation. Dr. Jen & Dr. Dom discuss their perspective on surgery and the importance of attempting rehabilitation before surgery. In spite of rehabilitation, they take you through knee rehabilitation step by step, breaking down how mobility, muscle activations and stabilization exercises, and strength in the posterior chain are vital to the initial stages of injury rehabilitation. With a particular focus on hip-hinging movement patterns to offload their knees initially, they shift the paradigm in fearing knees over toes and speak into progressive overloading the knees to create healthy and resilient knees! Learn to train and rehabilitate the knees to tolerate all of life’s uncertainties!

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What You Will Learn In This PT Pearl:

01:45 - What is the Meniscus?

4:00 - Who tends to be more affected & causes!

5:12 - Dr. Dom's journey with Meniscus Injury

7:20 - Tools to build the Coba board

8:57 - Checking out how mobile your neighbors are!

12:32 - Explore your knee range of motion!

14:46 - Hip Stabilization & Activating Muscles Appropriately

16:57 - Do you have gluteal amnesia?

18:02 - Let's get hip-hinging first!

18:48- Progressing knee exercises

18:42- How to tolerate knees over toes a little bit more

20:55- Progressive Overload & Get Coordinated

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