Question

16. Your client, Sarah, was cleared to exercise 6 weeks ago. She shows up to a workout with you today and you notice that she's limping. She mentions that she twisted her knee playing soccer over the weekend but was hoping your corrective exercises could help her. You should:

1. have her perform a monster walk with a band and see if it reduces her knee pain
2. decrease her training loads by 50%
3. avoid any leg exercises that day and tell her to see a physical therapist in the future
4. explain that she needs to get cleared by a physical therapist before doing any exercises with you

Answer 1

Explain that she needs to get cleared by a physical therapist before doing any exercises with you.

If you have suffered from any injury especially when it involves weight bearing structures like knee joints, it is very important that you consult a therapist or doctor first, and find out the extent of injury and its consquences before you start any form of exercise.  Physical therapists help restore abilities to people with injuries affecting muscles, bones, or nerves. Their expertise can be valuable if you have suffered a lingering sprain or ligament tear. Ligament tear more often occurs during the twisting of knees and it take lot of time to heal these type of injury, hence it is very important to rule out all this before you begin to exercise.