I’m 21M.
I have some mild pain (3/10 like) at the patellar tendon (I think it’s there) at my right knee for like 3 weeks. It appeared before then but disappeared after a deload week. The pain didn’t get worse until like yesterday where I felt it more. Rarely I can also feel pain on the left side of the kneecap, like inside.
I’m doing some high volume squats currently, although I don’t feel any pain unless I’m going for like 10+ reps. I managed to get through 3 weeks of 2 squat days weekly, because I didn’t really feel any pain during squats, and I go deep on squats.
This pain appeared again because sometimes I sit in a deep squat position without any warm up for some time. I guess that what caused it. Now I can’t really get up from a deep squat position without feeling some pain there.
Day to day I can feel it sometimes when I sit down, walking down the stairs, or getting up from a sitting position, where I like focus on using my legs. Sometimes I don’t feel it.
The pain is really mild, but I don’t want it to get worse. Its more like annoying.
I’m looking for some advice on how to treat this.
BTW you can check my log to see what my program is like.
Honestly go to a physical therapist. It’s taken me forever to finally figure out what’s been causing my knee pain and I could have gotten in resolved a lot quicker if I went to a PT
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Yup.
Swore up and down that I had torn my meniscus in my right knee. There was a pop and crunch, and then I had agonizing pain when I extended the knee, and eventually I couldn’t stay in a seated position for more than 10 minutes without wanting to saw my knee off. Thought for sure I needed a knee replacement at one point.
Physical therapist assessed that I was spending too much time sitting at work and gave me 11 minutes of stretches to do daily, alongside some foam rolling, and the pain went away.
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Oh my god me too. Literally crippling knee pain and it was from sitting. The real issue is when you have an ankle or hip issues and that causes your knee pain
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Yup, that was exactly it. My hips were too tight and pulling my knee into a weird angle when I sat.
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Surely, you don’t do this with weight on your shoulders.
What are you hoping to accomplish doing the deep squat sit cold?
You are very young to be addressing pain as a part of your training.