These cases were just a few among our thousands of patients with knee pain effectively treated by Frank with MCT. Should you have any questions about knee pain, please contact us at 408 720-1766.

Many patients have knee pain but do not know why. Labels such as OA, RSD, PFPS, OCD, Osgood, etc are all over but there are still cases whose diagnoses do not seem clear. As it goes in Chinese medicine, compromised flow of blood circulation results in pain. Look at the seemingly insignificant scars, constantly cold knee joints due to ice pack, and the ill-formed varicose veins in lower limbs, unexplained lower extremity edema ...which are all signs of "compromised circulation". Read this article you will realize that the surgeries or injuries could easily cause such bad circulation. Ice is widely used in physical medicine and pain management in America. This is considered a culturally wrong approach to injuries and pain according to Chinese medicine. After reading http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/phys-ed-what-causes-early-arthritis-in-knees/, you will probably not take seemingly minor injury or surgery so lightly anymore. I think injuries, surgeries, and post surgical rehab process are to blame more than anything else like pain pump... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/sports/27painpump.html?hp