On Tuesday and Wednesday this week Okanagan Peak Performance Inc presented the Knee Solution Seminar. Below is a recap of the main points from this presentation. Why We Have Knee ProblemsIn order to have the healthiest knees we need to make sure the joint sits in the proper place. And to do this properly we started at the ground looking at the foot. If the foot sits in a pronated position, with a collapsed arch, this will cause the knee to fall inward. And if we have a supinated foot, or high arch, the foot will roll out to the outside. [caption id="attachment_5344" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Image showing a pronated, neutral and supinated foot position. We ran through a couple of drills showing the attendees how to self-assess the positioning of the foot. One drill involves placing the thumb and index finger on the same foot just below the malleolus. If your thumb and index finger are on the bumps on the sides of the ankle you're too high. Slide the fingers lower until them feel soft tissue. From this position roll the ankle inward. On which finger do you feel more pressure? What happens to the arch? What happens to the knee? Now repeat this drill and roll the ankle outward. Which finger feels more pressure? What happens to the arch? And where does the knee go? The goal for this drill is find the position where there is 50-50 pressure on the thumb and index finger. Once the foot is set in this position the knee will line up optimally as well. The other way we look at foot position was by considering the plantar surface (bottom of the foot). On the bottom of the foot imagine a triangle. And the three lines of this triangle are from the pad under...