If you are experiencing knee pain look first at the hip!

Do your knees start to ache when you walk or sit while you watch a movie? What about when you use stairs or exercise? More often than not, achy knees can be easily addressed by retraining the control of the knees at the hip.

The first step on the road to healthy knees include stretching the quads and activating the deep hip stabilizer muscles. See the exercises below or watch the video where I walk you through these first steps to get started!

• Keep the bottom shin on the ground as you pull the knee bent with the strap (blue and red)

• Tuck your tail under and drive your bottom hip forward.

• Exhale, drawing the lower ribs down and in

• Open up your chest by rotating the top shoulder up and out (green)

• Breathe here for up to 1 minute, drawing the ribs down and in and driving the bottom hip forward