Knee Pain

• Knee complaints are common to all age groups and at all levels of activity from ordinary day to day activity to intense athletic training.
  
  
• Osgood Schlatter’s (osteochondrosis) and Blount’s (Tibial varum) Diseases are common knee pathologies related to children.
  
  
• In the adult, knee pathology includes injury to the menisci, ligaments of the medial and lateral compartments, anterior and posterior cruciates, as well as problems with knee plicae, subluxing patella, chondromalacia, Quadriceps or Patella tendonitis, and Illio-tibial band syndrome.
  
  
• Many of these problems are created or compounded by the knee being subjected to transverse plane motion generated by internal or external tibial rotation secondary to the foot’s excessive pronation or supination respectively.
  
  
• On this basis, stabilisation of the foot will often lead to a reduction in the knee symptoms by reducing both the magnitude and velocity of transverse plane motion within the last 15 degrees of motion that precedes full knee extension.

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