I’ve had knee problems for about 6-7 years. No extreme pain or anything, they just don’t work right. It started with a partial tear to my left quad tendon that I didn’t know about for a couple years. I got that fixed, then both legs started going down hill. It feels like my knees are bent inward, or like the upper of lower leg is rotated around the long axis. It results in the feeling that my knees are out of alignment.
Also, it feels like the quad nearest to my kneecap is dead. If I’m sitting and lift my straight leg, the quad is soft, and all the load at my knee is carried by the connective tissue on the side of the knee, like the ITB. I don’t know the name of the tissue on the inside of the knee. I just don’t “feel” the quad working like I used to. It seems like it much less wraps around the patella than it used to.
I’m visiting a PT who I can work with onoe on one for a whole hour once a week, and she’s got a doctorate, and has signigicant expeerience with kettlebells and z-health. A lot of what we’re doing is focusing on getting the hips to work, and trying to get the whole body to work as one, but it seems like all that stuff is tweaking, when I need much more than tweaking.
I don’t know if my own theory about what is wrong is ridiculousor or not, but no doctor or PT has yet been convinced that the bending inward of the knee is actually happening to a significant extent. But I think that if that misalignment weren’t so much the knee bending in as a rotation of the femur or lower leg along an axis, then it might be harder to notice.
I have 2 questions.
- What do I do?
- Is my “theory” about what is wrong nuts?