Thank you for listening, Stephanie! I’m sorry to hear that your mom’s chiropractor doesn’t give her anything to work on at home. It’s so frustrating to me when practitioners operate in this way.

Sorry, I had to switch up the day this week. Hope to see you at the next Wednesday office hours!

Most people who have meniscus related issues aren’t due to extremely traumatic injuries. In a lot of cases, people have degenerative meniscus tears that flare up from time to time, so a dance type of workout could have flared up a bit of meniscus pain.

Hi Brandon, I have prehab programs and plan to start uploading follow-along workouts soon. Here is a link for the prehab routines.

https://membership.rehabscience.com/categories/category-rrbj-ov66uw

Hi Stephanie,

These are great questions. In terms of whether or not therapy is working, usually the most obvious observation would be that your symptoms are lessening. This could be that they are lessening in intensity or the symptoms are more difficult to trigger. It is very common for pain to be better one day and then to feel a setback the next day. The key is that you have a positive trend over a longer period such as several weeks or months.

In terms of moving from one phase to the next, you do not necessarily need to spend the number of weeks I listed in the program. These are just general guidelines. In many cases, people may spend longer in a particular phase or move through a phase quickly if they don’t have pain with the movements and are able to complete all of the exercises with good control and full range of motion. If you can complete all the exercises in a particular phase with minimal or no pain and full range of motion, then you can likely move onto the next phase.

You’re welcome! In many cases, it is okay to do two different programs at the same time. However, there are situations where exercises for one condition can aggravate another condition. Can you let me know which two programs you are referring to?