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.
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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
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.
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
It’s just there is no close appointment for a PT. I was hoping someone here would diagnose it
I also saw there’re some PTs here.
Not much, just stretching my quads and keeping flexibility because I also sit a lot.
I’m actually not completely sure if it’s the patellar tendon, I sometimes feel it there and sometimes at like the outer side of knee, here’s a picture:
I know it doesn’t make much sense. It is just that I would prefer stretching when I have good blood flow in the area. But that is just me dealing with lifting heavy weights as my attachments are aging and less compliant.
Not at all. I never felt any pain from lifting weights until I was 26 years old, and I started at 19 years old. The injuries just occur faster and last longer as you age.
I would assume that the knee pain that you are dealing with now will only get worse as you age, unless there is a fix that won’t “reinjure” again. Time is not on your side.
I don’t think it’s something with my skeleton frame, I hope not.
Anyway I schedule and appointment with a PT in one week, but I doubt the pain will exist then.
How would you approach this pain? Currently, I don’t feel anything, even when sitting down, but I don’t want to anger it again. I also don’t feel pain during sets of squats, only when I go really deep, or after the sets, or when I’m doing a high number of reps.
It’s being with me for a few months, sometimes I anger it again.
Having zero access to a PT (nonexistent when I competed), my philosophy is to not do an exercise that aggravated the injury, regardless to the importance of that exercise. Simply put: If it hurts, don’t do it.
For now: Quit squatting deep. Don’t do high reps. Maybe switch to leg presses for a while, where you have better control of the position of your knees.
I think what I’ll just do is take a one week deload based on squat day. I’ll work up to like 60% and see how things feel. If I feel something, I’ll just do a deload week and it will probably help.
Just consider, that if you caused the pain, for whatever reason, when you go back to what you were doing, it is highly likely that the knee pain will return.
Well I don’t think it’s from the squats. I did high volume squats multiple times and didn’t have any issues. But you’re right, I need to fully figure out what caused it.
How plausible it is happening from just sitting in a deep squat position for a few minutes without warmup?
Thanks, but I don’t want to overthink my technique. I already reviewed it. I do sometimes have knee cave but it’s on PRs mostly, if knee cave even causes something.
Tried to squat today a bit, just to move my joints, I couldn’t get past the first warmup set haha. Definitely something at the patellar tendon, right at the top beginning of the tendon.
