Weeks 1–2
Pain
Calm the joint down.
Hands-on techniques and activity modification reduce irritation and swelling around the affected joint.
What We Treat
Hip and knee pain relief in Lee's Summit.
Your hips and knees are the largest joints in your body, and pain in one often changes how you move at the other.
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No referral needed. A real person calls you back, usually within two business hours.
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Sound Familiar?
Does this sound like you?
- A pinch in your hip crease every time you get out of the car
- Knee stiffness or swelling that shows up after activity
- Popping or a sense of instability when you put weight on it
- Taking the stairs one at a time because you don’t trust the next step
- Difficulty fully straightening the knee
- Pain that shows up at rest, not just during activity
Two or more? Keep reading.
Why It Happens
One joint compensating for the other is common.
The hip joint can wear down over time from age, overuse, or a fall, and conditions like bursitis, tendinitis, and arthritis all add to the load. Knee pain often follows the same pattern: damage to the bony structures, ligaments, or cartilage from normal aging or overuse.
Because the hip and knee share so much of the work of walking and standing, pain or weakness in one joint frequently shows up as compensation, and eventual pain, in the other. A full lower-body evaluation looks at both together, not just the joint that hurts most.
The Honest Truth
Compensation spreads if it isn't addressed.
If you keep waiting
- The good joint starts absorbing extra load and eventually hurts too
- Muscles around the joint weaken further from favoring it
- Simple tasks, stairs, getting out of a chair, get harder, not easier
If you start this week
- We evaluate both hip and knee together to find the real driver
- Targeted strengthening addresses the weak link before it worsens
- You get a plan with an endpoint, not a lifetime of favoring one leg
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 hip and knee pain.
Weeks 2–6
Prime
Restore motion.
Targeted mobility work addresses stiffness in the hip, knee, or both, wherever it's limiting you.
Weeks 6–10
Perform
Build supporting strength.
Progressive strengthening around the hip and knee shares the load more evenly so neither joint overcompensates.
Weeks 10+
Prevent
Return to full activity.
Stairs, squatting, and daily movement get tested under real load before you're cleared to go all-in.
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Phase 1: favoring one leg on every set of stairs
Phase 4: back to walking, standing, and climbing stairs without thinking about it
Hip & Knee Pain
Four-phase plan
Questions, Answered
What people ask before booking for hip and knee pain.
Yes, very common. The hip and knee share so much of the work of walking that weakness or restriction in one often shows up as pain in the other. That's why we evaluate both together.
Not usually as a first step. A movement-based evaluation often finds the mechanical driver of your pain directly. If imaging becomes genuinely necessary, we'll help you get it.
Not necessarily. Many hip and knee pain cases improve significantly with targeted physical therapy. If surgery is already planned or ultimately needed, pre- and post-surgical therapy still make a real difference in your recovery.
Book Your Visit
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, hours vary by location
- (816) 607-7180 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
- Same-week appointments available
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Typical response: under 2 business hours
Step 1 of 5
Request sent.
That’s the hard part done. We’ll call during business hours to lock in your time. Most people are on the schedule same week.
Visit Us
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Hill Pro-Motion Physical Therapy – Lee's Summit
- 1321 SW Market St, Lee's Summit, MO 64081 (opens in new tab)
- (816) 607-7180
- Fax: (816) 607-7181
- hello@hillpromotionpt.com
- Mon 7am–6pm · Tue, Thu 7:30am–6pm · Wed 8am–6pm · Fri 7:30am–5pm · Sat–Sun Closed
Hill Pro-Motion Physical Therapy – Lakewood
- 701 NE Lakewood Blvd, Lee's Summit, MO 64064 (opens in new tab)
- (816) 607-7180
- Fax: (816) 607-7181
- hello@hillpromotionpt.com
- Mon–Thu 8am–6pm · Fri 8am–5pm · Sat–Sun Closed
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