Chasing the pain

When it comes to chronic injuries a good rule is 'dont chase the pain'. Had a client today who again highlighted this point coming in with knee pain. Turned out that one of her glutes was not doing its job (was very weak compared to its partner) and creating a big hip imbalance causing her to favour one leg more and th...at knee to undergo more stress than it wanted to. The real culprit though was the hip flexor which when gets too tight switches off the butt - and then the hamstrings and lower back muscles (making up the rear chain muscles) need to pick up the load (got chronic tight hamies? - might be from your hip flexors). Moral of the story - dont chase the pain!