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If the cause of knee pain is low back disease!

One out of every three people experience knee pain at least once in their lifetime, whereas 92 percent of us experience back pain. A considerable part of the pain felt around this knee joint is related to the causes of low back pain.
In order to explain knee diseases that require serious and advanced treatment in other articles, you will read the relationship between low back pain and knee problems that we frequently experience in daily life.

Why is this happening?

Waist or pelvic bone problems, joint problems where the pelvis, which we call the sacroiliac joint, joins the coccyx bone can cause hip joint and knee joint pain.

If you do not move much in daily life or are not a regular exercise person, it is futile to look for why. As you stay still, the strength of certain muscle groups decreases as well as flexibility. The back muscles are attached to the pelvis, and the pelvis muscles to the leg. Different pains will come and find you according to your body type, such as the domino effect.

Knee pain caused by back problems usually occurs at the same or close times in the waist and knee. Sometimes there is only pain in the knee joint. There are also patients presenting with occasional pain in the knee and waist.
Causes of back problems to cause pain around the knee joint are mostly due to muscle imbalances. Situations such as thigh back muscles (hamstrings), weakness of the anterior thigh muscle, stretching of a muscle (iliotibial band) located on the side of the leg cause pain.

A few muscles to keep in mind:
Waist and knee problems cause these muscles to contract, and the contraction of these muscles causes waist and knee problems. Simple daily pain is mostly due to the weakness and shortening of these muscles. Even if there are other reasons, these muscles must be flexible in all conditions.

Even if their names seem strange to you, they remain in mind and you have to take care of these muscles.

So come on:

Tighten these muscles regularly
 
Psoas: The muscle that extends from the pelvis to the thigh bone

Iliotibial band: The muscle on the side of the thigh extending from the hip to the knee.

Hamstring: The muscles in the back of the thigh.

Piriformis: The muscle behind the hip that turns the leg outward

Achilles: The tendon at the back of the leg

If you write the name of these above muscles in a place like Youtube and look at the stretching exercises, maybe you will easily get rid of a lot of trouble.

On the other hand, if your body posture, called posture, is impaired, these pains also occur. It will take you about 5 minutes or so to stand upright consciously. After that, your waist and back muscles will be tired and you will be back to that posture you do not want, without noticing. Consider that athletes spontaneously stand upright. If your back and waist muscles are strong, you will see that you can stand upright unintentionally. 

By the way, so called posture correction corsets does not work.
 

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