What We Treat

Hip & knee pain treatment in Edwards & Avon.

That pinch when you cross your legs to tie your shoes. The stairs you take one at a time now, leading with your good leg. It’s fixable, and it starts with a cause-first evaluation, not a guess.

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Sound Familiar?

Does this sound like you?

  • That pinch in your hip when you cross your legs to tie your shoes
  • Taking stairs one at a time now, leading with your good leg
  • A knee that catches or buckles mid-stride on a run or hike
  • Getting up from a low chair means pushing off the armrest first
  • A dull ache deep in your hip after a day on your feet
  • Swelling in your knee that shows up by evening, every single time

Two or more? Keep reading.

Why It Happens

Hip and knee pain are symptoms. Something causes them.

Your hip or knee doesn’t act up for no reason. It’s usually some mix of a few things working against each other: an irritated bursa or tendon around the hip. Cartilage in the knee that gets aggravated when something else nearby isn’t pulling its weight. Weak glutes that let your knee cave inward under load, on stairs, on a run, or coming down off a chairlift. And an old injury, an ACL, a meniscus, a sprain, that never got fully rehabbed the first time around.

None of that gets sorted out by taping it and hoping. It takes a real, cause-first evaluation to know exactly what’s driving your hip or knee, especially if you’re the one who refuses to sit out ski season or hiking season because that’s when you feel most like yourself. Find the actual cause, and the fix stops being a mystery.

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The Honest Truth

Waiting on a hip or knee doesn’t make it wait on you.

If you keep waiting

  • Your opposite hip or knee starts overworking, and starts hurting too
  • Stairs, hikes, and ski days get crossed off the list one at a time
  • The joint keeps losing strength and stability, which makes the next tweak more likely

If you start this week

  • You know the actual cause by the end of visit one
  • Hands-on relief starts before you leave the building
  • You get a plan with an endpoint: a real one, not an open tab of visits

Nobody regrets starting too early. Every week, someone in our clinic says they regret waiting.

How We Fix It

The same four phases. Built for your hip and knee.

Every plan has an endpoint. Here’s what the four phases look like for a hip or knee.

Weeks 1–2

Pain

Calm the pain down.

Hands-on techniques calm the irritated joint, bursa, or tendon and take the edge off swelling, starting your very first visit.

Weeks 2–6

Prime

Get your motion back.

Targeted mobility work restores hip and knee motion in the joints that have been guarding the injury.

Weeks 6–10

Perform

Make it strong enough to trust.

Progressive glute, quad, and hip strengthening builds the stability your joint was missing in the first place.

Weeks 10+

Prevent

Return better than before.

Squatting, stairs, and trail or slope mechanics get tested under real load before you’re cleared to go all-in: that’s the endpoint, not just another appointment.

We treat the cause behind hip & knee pain, not just the symptom, with a plan built around what you actually need.

Our approach · Hip & knee pain

Before care: hip & knee pain getting in the way of daily life

With a plan: steady progress, built around your actual goals

Hip & knee pain Care philosophy

Related Conditions

Pain rarely stays in one place.

Compensation patterns often show up nearby. Here’s what else we treat.

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Neck Pain

That knot between your shoulder blades by 3pm: tension headaches, migraines, neck strain that never fully lets go.

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Shoulder Pain

Reaching for the top shelf and stopping halfway, wincing.

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Elbow & Wrist Pain

Your grip giving out on a jar lid you used to open without thinking.

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Questions, Answered

What people ask before booking for hip & knee pain.

Usually not, and it’s rarely the right first step. Cartilage wear and labral changes show up on MRIs of hips and knees that don’t hurt at all, so a scan doesn’t always point to what’s actually driving your pain. We start with a hands-on, cause-first evaluation to find the real source, and if imaging ever becomes genuinely necessary, we’ll help you get it. You don’t have to wait on a scan to start feeling better.

In most cases, yes, with the right modifications while we get to the bottom of it. Sitting out the whole season isn’t necessary, and total rest tends to leave your hip or knee weaker than before. The key is dosing the right activity for what’s actually going on in your joint, which is exactly what a physical therapist sorts out at your evaluation, then progresses safely as you improve.

Most patients feel meaningful change within 4–6 visits. A full plan for hip & knee pain runs through all four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform, and Prevent, typically over 8–10 weeks, depending on how long you’ve been dealing with it. Either way, you get a plan with an endpoint: you’ll always know which phase you’re in and what’s left, not an open-ended string of appointments.

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Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back, usually within two business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Mon–Fri: 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM · Sat–Sun: Closed
  • (970) 569-3883 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • Same-week appointments available

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