3 Natural Ways to Relieve Knee Pain. These Tips Helped Reduce my Knee Pain Substantially.

When I suffered from very serious knee pain, I was faced with a few tough choices:

• Either let it consume my life in which case, it would worsen with age.
• Or I could do something about it and find ways to relieve/reduce it and perhaps, if lucky, cure it.

That led me to find ways to do it and to this day, I’d say there were 3 natural methods which worked better than anything else and here they are:

Way 1: Diet. 

Most problems with knees originate with muscles and tissues surrounding it. Whether it be arthritis, lack of circulation, an injury and/or whatever else, when these areas are not healthy, they are inflamed and when they are inflamed, mobility in them decreases and pain increases.

A proper diet consisting of high fat foods is really one of the best ways to reduce knee pain because it attacks the inflammation directly, and by improving circulation, which is what a healthy high fat diet does, the stress on the knee is reduced and as a result, so is the pain.

My recommendation would be for anyone to watch what they eat as the first tip in that they shouldn’t eat anything that will have them gain weight and secondly to start eating healthy high fat foods and taking omega 3 supplements to really help with this. Trust me when I say, long term, doing this can really make all the difference.

Way 2: Hot water therapy. 

In short, grab a stool, put it in your tub or shower, sit on it, turn on the shower and aim it on your knees. Make the water hot, as possibly as hot as you can take (without burning yourself). 

Hold it like this for about 5-10 minutes and you’re going to really see some remarkable differences. This was one of the most “instant” methods that worked remarkably for me when I suffered from it, especially during the cold seasons.

And by the way, for knee sufferers, it is especially more common to feel extra pain when it’s cold outside. The cold itself affects our joints and if you already suffer from pain in them, it will only get worse when it’s cold outside.

Heat targeted towards the pain areas can really reverse that, often times in minutes and really help you regain mobility as it did for me.

Allow me to explain in detail how this worked for me:

Besides using it for general pain relief purposes, I would use this method whenever I was bound at home trying to follow a workout video which involved doing a lot of squatting.

Now squatting is not exactly the best friend of the knee, especially if it’s already in pain, but through doing this hot shower therapy before hand and after the workout, I went from not being able to squat at all, to being able to squat fully WITHOUT experiencing any bit of pain. 

Heat and specifically hot water can hold remarkable healing qualities and while this method is temporary, if you do it for longer periods of time, perhaps every day, several times a day even, you will reduce the pain, improve the mobility and that will act positively towards other things you’ll be doing physical things throughout the day.

The hot water will really help the knee “regenerate” again and when you start going about your day with more healthy joints and less pain accumulating on them overtime, you will be preserving the health of those joints even longer.

I cannot stress how important this hot water therapy is and how it literally saved me. It is extremely simple to do and anyone who has a shower (which should be everyone) should do it.

Now this can be repeated with heating pads and basically anything that when applied externally causes heat, but in my experience, nothing beats hot water. 

Way 3: Stop doing things that bring about knee pain.

It is very surprising to me that people just don’t seem to recognize that a lot of their health problems, particularly joint issues arise from doing things that are known to cause them. In this blog, I noted 5 causes of joint problems, and one of them was a list of several exercises people do on a regular basis that is well known to cause problems, yet they still keep doing it.

Note: Also the 3 tips I noted further in that article are basically a reflection of the 3 methods described in this article and it all goes to show you that it’s all connected and worth doing it, unless you prefer to walk with a cane or be on a scooter…

Running for example (and I use this example very often because it is an epidemic) is a big problem on the knees and if you already have them, stop doing it and substitute it, but if you are an active jogger and already know that this is happening because you are in fact jogging, you have to understand that it’s not going to get better.

As you get older, all that strain you put on your joints throughout you time running is only going to accumulate. If you don’t give yourself a break and let the stress you put on the joints heal, you’re just going to add a “debt” on the joints which will start to come out more and more as you age.

It is far better to switch to exercises that have less impact on the knees which again is explained in the article on the causes of joint pains above than to suffer when you’re older (or younger).

Combine these 3 things and you will really see a huge difference in the pain relief. 

Long term preservation of your joints is the BEST way to ensure that they stay healthy and for existing conditions, know that you can absolutely reduce the pain if you follow the 3 strategies above. 

These methods are preventative, as well as internally and externally beneficial for the joints. Attacking your joint problems from these 3 different positions is really an effective protocol at reducing the pain altogether.