When to baby the leg with knee pain is a solid common-sense strategy to use. Especially when you’ve been suffering from chronic knee pain and you’ve been going to physical therapy while not seeing any results. You can find yourself in a situation where another radically different approach is required in order to feel any improvement in your knee pain.
“If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.”
– Albert Einstein
Learning from a baby
Getting different results for how your knee feels and performs requires a different way of looking at knee pain.
The example I like to use is comparing your knee pain with the crying of a newborn baby. When a baby is first born, no one, including the mother, knows why the baby is crying, because it crys alot, it can be crying for a number of reasons.
The baby could be:
- Hungry
- Thirsty
- Tired
- Want to be rocked and held
- or need a diaper change
But until we begin to “test” each of these solutions and then observe how the baby responds, we will still be in the dark as to what the baby needs.
I remember this process with my young daughter…
I knew if she made a certain face, her diaper was full and after a certain amount of time after eating she would be hungry again.
