A physical therapist can teach you how to decrease your pain and increase your
physical functioning. By teaching you strengthening and stretching exercises,
and positions to avoid during healing, a physical therapist can help you to
return to all the activities you were doing before your injury. Many people,
who have pain in their knee, compensate in other joints so that they do not
have to put as much weight through their painful knee. This compensation can
cause injuries in other joints such as the ankle, hip, and lower back. It is
important to see a physical therapist who can help guide you through your healing
process so that you do not cause injuries elsewhere.
If the injury is deep within the knee joint, sometimes surgery is needed to repair or take out the meniscus. A physical therapist can help rehabilitate your knee following the surgery and return you to your previous level of sport or functioning.