Jill Miller: Quickfix RX Kneehab for Knee Health

First of all, you will want to purchase a pair of yoga therapy balls with tote (I couldn't find them on Amazon but you can buy them on the company's website-you'll get the info you need from the flyers inside the package). It would be nice if they were offered as a kit along with the DVD but they are not, so get over it because you will need them to use the DVD. The balls come in a mesh bag that you use to keep the balls together for some of the moves and for other moves you take the balls out of the bag to use individually. If you don't like handling your balls that much then buy two sets and keep one pair in the bag. Now be warned, these balls are soft and squishy and obviously treated with a canine attracting pheromone. As soon as I removed mine from the box, my dogs were all over me. They had only one thing on their minds-"Fetch". It definately added an extra level of difficulty to the exercises trying to keep my dogs from taking off with my balls between moves.But all joking aside, I hurt my back in 1996 which led to an altered gait (I fall a lot and use a cane at times) but I still kept exercising as best I could. Flash forward 15 years, and that altered gait has put so much stress on my knees that the pain became unbearable. My doctor tried physical therapy, cortisone shots into both knees and prescription anti inflammatory drugs but the problem continued to worsen and I feared that I would soon be unable to walk. Faced with going back to using my wheelchair, I knew that I had to do something, anything to fix my knees.The first time I used the Kneehab DVD I was surprised how difficult some of the exercises were. With limited mobility, I found it very difficult to do some of the basic exercises, especially the ones where I had to hold my self up on my elbow and roll around on the therapy balls. I wish Ms. Miller would have demonstrated variations on the exercises for the disabled. But, I persevered and improvised by simply using my hands to rub the balls on the targeted muscles. Afterwards, I was amazed at the results! I was able to walk up and down the stairs with significantly less pain AFTER ONLY ONE SESSION!!!!! And that was only using the "Prehab Kneehab" section. I can only imagine what the results will be with regular use and after I've tackled all 4 sections (they include stretching and strengthing exercises). I hope to soon be able to do all the exercises as demonstrated without modification.If you suffer from knee pain or stiffness, then you owe it to yourself to try the Kneehab program. What do you have to lose except your pain? And besides, it doesn't have any known side effects unlike the drugs most of us take for our knee pain.

I have had 2 ACL reconstructions- one in EACH leg and after working with this video I can finally make it down a flight of stairs without pain, there is less cracking and crepitus in my knees, and my hips and lower back pain have also diminished by 50%!!!!I had to be extremely patient and diligent though and work and master each stage of the progression- First Pre-hab, then Knee-hab 1 & Knee-Hab 2, and finally I can do Knee- How!It is anatomically informative and so beneficial for all levels of fitness. I can say that because I am a yoga instructor, massage therapist and an anatomy teacher! However, I believe I am most qualified to recommend this video because I WAS a knee pain sufferer too.I can safely say that this video has been invaluable in my knee re-hab and re-education but it has also made me feel that my knees are now in better shape than they were PRE-Surgery! Hmmmm, perhaps all that mis-alignment was why they got so injured in the first place!. Now, I know at first most knees should walk and not run to get this video, but after you put in some well-knee-ded time with this video, you may be finally able to RUN and get your friend's knees a copy too!

At first I was quite pissed off that the trainer makes you order balls from her company website. It felt rather manipulative, first buy the DVD, when it arrives realize you can't do the pre-hab part cuz you don't have the balls. Why don't they sell the DVD and balls as a package??? (I used my hands instead to deep massage the parts she was targeting with the balls.)But then when I moved to Knee-rehab1, I liked the exercises. I feel they've already made my muscles stronger thus my knee feels more stable (a problem after my 2nd semi-injury). Some of her knee-rehab2 exercises I can't do yet, but I know there is wisdom in others. Like the hip rotations are good since from a Yoga for Knees book I was reading, hip joint inflexibility puts torque on knees and causes problems.So I guess this DVD can be useful, and I already see good effects although it's less than a week that I've started using it.(Still hadn't got over the balls issue though!)

Not easy, but if you are willing to commit the time and energy to doing a proper rehab, this video has a lot to offer. I wasted an absurd amount of time and money going to PT, but it never helped. I got such quick and amazing results using this video - it is like myofascial massage you do for yourself. Both my knee and my problem hip feel better than ever as a result of using the techniques I learned on this video. Excellent instruction. I have been very pleased with all of her videos, but this one was a game changer. Thank you, Jill!

Jill Miller is a Yoga Instructor so a lot of the exercises are very Yoga oriented and non-conventional. While it is fun watching her do the moves, there are so many of them and so much information that it will be extremely hard to follow as an exercise as a routine. It also seemed to me that she is making a lot of this stuff up so I am not sure how much science there is behind them as opposed to more standard knee exercises practiced by physical therapists and thought by hospitals, universities, etc. I found the DVD called "Strong Knees" by Chantal Donnelly much more helpful for my knee exercises. If you purchase this DVD, to perform the routines, you will need Yoga Balls, Yoga Bricks, and a net two hold two Yoga Balls together.

Very helpful exercises to help me rehab after knee surgery. I wish it was more of a workout video than just a demonstration, but it's still VERY useful and I recommend it for anyone re-habbing from knee injury/surgery.

ok but hard to work out to. Goes too quickly for use daily. Have to memorize what to do

This DVD is great! Within one week I could see a big improvement. I didn't want to wait for the yoga therapy balls to come in so I got tennis balls and put them in a tube sock. That worked just fine. This is a must have for knee and hip pain. The DVD is in sections so you can do part of it or all of it.

I have been doing Kneehab 1 for over a week and definitely feeling the benefit. Hadn't realised just how little I had been using my muscles since twisting my knee two years ago. Kneehab 1 you can do in a chair. Jill is lovely without being patronising. Buy the yoga tuneup balls as well as you need them for the first bit of massage.

I ordered this dvd for my knee beginning to ache for no reason, also I have the quickFix upper body series, and to be honest i feel so satisfied every time i do the whole two hours of the quick fix upper body and knee, it's like a full body massage and I love it. I don't have time to do it all the time but when i do, it's rewarding. Great health exercise, Jill Miller. Well done:-)

This is a great DVD for ensuring your ankles, knees and hips are all in great shape and working fluidly together.

The disk was defective several of the section wouldn't play. The one section that would required an additional purchase of massage balls to use.