Are your knees aking? Are they interfiring with your preformance during games or training sessions? Knees must be taken serously. Try out this massage and take care of your knees properly!
I started running a couple of years ago through an alternated jogging and walking program, which is recommended for beginners. But even though I took it slowly, my knees killed after the first few weeks. I could hardly climb stairs and would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night to throbbing pain. I thought maybe my body wasn’t built for running, but a visit to a sports-medicine doctor and a physical therapist taught me otherwise. My body just wasn’t prepared; the muscles and bands attached to my knees needed loosening up. That’s when I was first introduced to the foam roller, which the New York Times covered this week in an article on self-massage.
I was advised to roll my legs on the foam cylinder to loosen up the tight muscles and bands of my legs, which had hardened in years of quick-burst sports and lots of missed stretching sessions. They’re not the most intuitive motions, but basically you use your body weight to push the foam roller deep into different parts of your legs.
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