Brad Pitt fell on New Years Eve in his backyard while carrying his 3-year-old daughter Vivienne and injured his knee. The New York Post quoted him as saying:
“It was a little slip over New Year’s Eve. A little bit of damage, but everything’s fine,” explained Pitt on Saturday night at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala. “I was carrying my daughter down a slope and I slipped. It was me or her. She’s fine.”
The problem is almost a month later Brad Pitt was still using a cane to get around because of his knee pain and balance issues created by the injury.
“I was getting all lopsided,” Brad, 48, explained to Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson at the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. “So, I’m trying to balance out now.”
Brad Pitt has revealed that he needs to wear a brace and undergo rehabilitation treatment to correct his recent knee injury.
Digital Spy reports:
“It’s better, I have to wear a brace for a month then I’ll have rehab,” he told E!. “I’ll be alright as long as the kids don’t hit me from the side.”
Pitt previously said that he thought the incident had been blown out of proportion.
“It wasn’t life or death,” he claimed. “It was just an old man tripping.”
Now Brad Pitt, you are not an old man. If you are old at 48, what are you saying about half the worlds population that’s older than that?
If you are indeed feeling old, we can help you with that. I understand you slipped and hurt your knee as thousands of people do every day. I understand that you had to use a cane for a month. I understand that you are now wearing a brace and then will have to do rehab for your knee. I understand that you are now lopsided and off balance. And I understand how all of this makes you feel old, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
At Egoscue, we help people in the same situation as you regain postural balance, restore function to their body, and return to health. “Health” for us means you are living a pain free and active life without limitation and without fear of pain or injury.
After any injury, it is natural for the body to start compensating to accommodate the injury and temporary limitation (or dysfunction).
The problem is not the initial compensation, but that the body will stay out of balance even after the injury heals if we don’t teach it what balance means again. This means you must do specific exercises and stretches to restore your load joints (ankles, knees, hips and shoulders) to their proper alignment. It looks like this:
Traditional rehab for you knee injury will involve strengthening your leg muscles and doing flexibility and balance work, but it will not address your compensations that have developed throughout your body.
Unless your treat the body as a unit and do specific exercises for your entire body, you have not rehabilitated your body completely and it will come back to haunt you. You will experience this in several ways:
- You might never feel young again and buy into the concept that you are getting old.
- You will have residual pain or limitation with your knee that will be blamed on “the old injury”.
- Your knee will feel great but your hip or back will start becoming an issue and you will believe and be told that it is a new injury, when in fact it is due to the compensation patterns your body picked up immediately after your knee injury.
You can avoid these common “Pitt-falls” that come from injury, compensation, and incomplete or improper rehab by doing corrective postural exercises for your entire body. Brad Pitt, if you would like assistance with this feel free to contact me by phone 503-350-0888 or email matt@egoscue.com and I would be happy to help you.
