Your hips and knees have to negotiate every step you take
Hip & Knee Pain Treatment in Albany, Oregon
For active adults dealing with painful stairs, running or lifting limitations, restricted hips, knee irritation and lower-body problems that keep changing how you move.
Does This Sound Familiar?
Hip and knee problems often show up in activity before they become constant: stairs, squats, hills, running, getting out of a low chair, crossing a leg, sleeping on one side or pushing off hard during sport.
You may notice aching, pinching, stiffness, clicking, reduced range, a sense of instability or a pattern where one side repeatedly does more work than the other.
What May Be Causing Hip & Knee Pain?
Possible contributors include joint irritation, tendon overload, muscle guarding, training volume, previous injury, changes in ankle or foot mechanics, restricted hip rotation, and compensations created by protecting another region.
A knee can absolutely have a knee problem. It can also be the place where force from the foot, hip or trunk gets collected because something else stopped sharing the load well.
How Hip & Knee Pain Is Diagnosed—and What I Assess
A medical diagnosis may involve history, physical examination, strength and motion testing, and imaging when indicated. I do not diagnose ligament tears, arthritis, labral problems or other medical conditions.
I assess movement quality, comfortable range, tissue restriction, hip-knee-foot relationships, symptom behavior under load and whether changing one part of the chain changes what you feel.
How David’s Approach May Help
Treatment may include targeted massage, orthopedic manual therapy, hip and thigh work, mobility restoration, lower-leg or foot work when relevant, and practical changes to the movement or load that keeps provoking the problem.
The goal is not to create perfect symmetry. The goal is to help you move with more options, less irritation and enough confidence to return to what you actually do.
Why It Matters to Address the Pattern
Lower-body pain has a way of shrinking life one practical decision at a time: skip the hike, shorten the run, avoid the stairs, stop squatting, stop traveling, stop trusting the leg.
Addressing the pattern early can help keep adaptation from becoming your permanent movement strategy.
When to Get Medical Evaluation First
Seek medical evaluation for major trauma, inability to bear weight, obvious deformity, a locked joint, rapidly increasing swelling, significant redness or heat with illness, new calf swelling with shortness of breath, or rapidly worsening weakness or numbness.