Knee

Your knees are the hinges of your walking. Without them, no step, no change of direction, no jump, no stopping. They carry your entire body weight, absorb every impact, bend thousands of times each day — and most of the time you do not think of them for a single second. Only when they make themselves heard do you realise how much they actually accomplish.

Anatomically, knees are complex joints: bone, cartilage, menisci, ligaments, tendons, a sensitive mechanism. Orthopedically, there are countless explanations for knee problems — wear, overload, poor posture, consequences of injury, inflammation. All of that is real, and all of it has its validity. Yet whoever only looks at the mechanics sees only part of the picture.