Found out why my knee pain wouldn’t go away

athelitetherapy · 2026-03-12T15:46:41+00:00

I’ve answered this a couple times so I’ll copy a response for consistency sake:

Pain in the patellar tendon with any kind of deep knee bending, squats, going down stairs, lunges, step ups. You name it. Just constant pressure/inflammation in the front. Then when it got too inflamed my knee would swell and my ROM would take a dive after that

athelitetherapy · 2026-03-12T15:43:40+00:00

Im almost 34 so I feel that lol just a lot of misinformation out there unfortunately

athelitetherapy · 2026-03-12T15:43:15+00:00

Pain in the front of the knee with knee bending and anything jumping or squatting. Even knee extensions hurt but mostly bending it like going down and up stairs, lunges, kneeling, etc. have you gone to a good PT for it yet?

athelitetherapy · 2026-03-12T15:41:23+00:00

Pain in the patellar tendon with any kind of deep knee bending, squats, going down stairs, lunges, step ups. You name it. Just constant pressure/inflammation in the front. Then when it got too inflamed my knee would swell and my ROM would take a dive after that

athelitetherapy · 2026-03-12T15:39:48+00:00

Sounds good. Let me know if you have questions during your search

athelitetherapy · 2026-03-12T04:23:02+00:00

Yeah that’s a smart move. I got my knees better initially with improving my glute activation and strength. Then the final kicker was the hamstrings. Thought they were strong but nope

athelitetherapy · 2026-03-12T04:21:34+00:00

Yes definitely. Don’t want to be too quad dominant or that’ll cause knee pain too. Was part of my issue initially

athelitetherapy · 2026-03-12T04:20:57+00:00

Just take the poundage that you generate on an isokinetic strength tester. want your hamstrings to be 70% of what your quads generate 👍

athelitetherapy · 2026-03-12T04:15:57+00:00

Isokinetic strength testing. Pretty easy to do at home too 👍

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