I’ve been having knee pain for the past 6 months or so, pretty constant. Mostly left knee but also right. Finally got my life sorted and went to the doc yesterday (one I halfway trust) who told me his first thought is “patellofemoral arthralgia.” Generally caused by repeated bending on one knee or activities with lots of squatting, it’s also caused by misalignment which was his first line of reasoning.
Rewind 10 months - saw a massage therapist who told me they can feel and even see that my body is offset. Left shoulder forward, left hip forward. I.e chainsaw position. I was in a lift for the better part of 3 years dismantling dead ash, no crane until the very end so lots and lots of cutting. Too busy to adjust my body or do any other kind of maintenance. After hearing my doctors thoughts yesterday, my mind jumped to this line of thought right away.
Funny how the lift is supposed to save your body but just opens up the door for intensive production leading to situations like this. I’ll resist the Marxist outcry tho, my own fault anyway.
Anyway - does anyone have a good resource online or otherwise for general body alignment or anything they might think relevant to this line of thought or situation? I don’t much trust the internet these days so would love some input to supplement what I find. Alternatively a book suggestion would just about make my life.
We have a great pretentiously unpretentious yoga studio in my area which i always hope to practice more, but I’m hoping to dive into anything else that may assist with our great failure of a medical system as a supplemental last resort I’m reluctant to see a chiropractor for similar reasons against relying on a system I can’t practice myself, but I’d love to hear success stories if they relate to this.
