Just wondering if anyone could give me some help with this. I’m having pain in my left knee between my patella and tibia. It hurts only when I’m squatting (even with just the bar) but goes away when I wrap them. Might be worth noting that I have Osgood-Schlatter disease in my right knee and have been doing more volume over the past couple months.
I don’t anything about your disease, but a video could be a lot of help.
High Bar or Low Bar? Any time I squat high bar I get knee pain in the same area that is immediately relieved when I wrap my knees. The pain is multiplied if I wear Oly Shoes and High Bar. About 100% positive it has to do with forward knee tracking and possibly some to do with the structure of my lower body. Squatting Low Bar and in Chucks there is zero pain and I feel great.
How ever a video of you squatting from the side at about knee to waste hieght would help assess this tremendously.
Give TKE’s a go. You ‘MAY’ have a VMO imbalance. I’ve added these in and they have helped me. Disclaimer… I am NOT a doctor, but I did play one on a porno once 
seriously tho check out the video.
I would assume it is Osgood-Schlatter’s disease in this knee as well. That is exactly where you’ll be experiencing pain if I am understanding you correctly. I had it in my left knee all the way into my early 20’s, but squatting actually helped it over the long term by strengthening the quadriceps. If I were you I would try wrapping tightly just the top of the tibia below the knee, around and below “the bump” if you’ve developed one from the syndrome. I still have a bump/knot on mine from when I had it. Wrapping just this portion should help hold the tibia from pulling causing more avulsion fractures, without supporting the whole knee.
Worth a shot if you haven’t tried it.
I’ve been dealing with the same problem for a little over a year, its absolutely a patellar tracking issue. Figuring out why your patellar is maltracking is the tricky part, because there’s about 50 different root causes, and you could be experiencing any or all of them. VMO imbalance is a pretty common one, as is severe tightness of the VL, which both end with the same result: pulling your patella to the side during flexion.
It could be caused by tight hip flexors not allowing enough external rotation around the pelvis. It could even be caused by a shallow femoral groove not giving the patellar enough room to sit. My own issue was actually caused by both tightness in the VL, along with severe tightness of the small muscles above and around my shin.
Foam rolling has mostly resolved it, but I get flare ups often if I slack on either my prehab or squatting technique. Lots of these issues feed off of each other, because you’ll fall into compensations to avoid the pain, and that only causes faulty mechanics in other areas.
In the interim, a good fix (as has been mentioned) is wrapping just below the knee where the patellar sits. This keeps it pretty well glued down to the femoral groove where its supposed to slide back and forth. I used voodoo bands for this, but anything similar should work. That should allow you to squat with good mechanics while you try and resolve the underlying cause, which has to be the main goal. Otherwise, the problem will just keep recurring.
[quote]tylerkeen42 wrote:
Just wondering if anyone could give me some help with this. I’m having pain in my left knee between my patella and tibia. It hurts only when I’m squatting (even with just the bar) but goes away when I wrap them. Might be worth noting that I have Osgood-Schlatter disease in my right knee and have been doing more volume over the past couple months.[/quote]
Are you over compensating for the Osgood-Schlatter in your right knee?
I have it in the heal (at least it was diagnosed when I was a kid), it can be a pain in the ass at times.
Thanks guys for all the advice, I’ll give the wrapping below my knee and warming up with the tko’s a go next time I squat. I don’t believe I’m really compensating as my pain in the right knee goes away when I take some Ibuprofen but my left knee still bothers me. Will post a video soon, once I figure out how to get it from my iPad to my computer lol As far as wrapping goes, I don’t have voodoo bands but I used to use an ace bandage so I guess ill go back to that
After really paying attention today I’ve noticed I really let my knees cave in significantly. So that most likely is the major problem with my knees and I’ll have to focus on correcting that ASAP. Is there any other form problems you guys can see?
Sorry about that forgot to convert it
Fuck it, I’m using links for now on. Damn fancy thinking box.
[quote]tylerkeen42 wrote:
Just wondering if anyone could give me some help with this. I’m having pain in my left knee between my patella and tibia. It hurts only when I’m squatting (even with just the bar) but goes away when I wrap them. Might be worth noting that I have Osgood-Schlatter disease in my right knee and have been doing more volume over the past couple months.[/quote]
I have the same problem as you, minus the disease, and it’s in my right knee. Ever since I’ve been doing stretches to squat deeper, my knee has been aching and has gotten to the point to where I have to stop a workout cause of the pain. Haven’t squated in like 2 weeks. Best of luck to you buddy.
It’s definitely possible for you to sit back farther and reduce your knee drift. It’ll be harder on your hips and back, but it’s your knee giving you problems so that might be your solution. If you get your knee drift to no further than mid-foot it might help a lot.