I don’t know much about the knee, but I do know that when I do lying leg curls heavy, I get pain on my medial knee under the patella and just to the medial side between sets.
Could this be due to an anterior stress on my knee joint (having the tibia move forward due to leverages) straining my ACL and putting stress on the terrible triad causing MCL pain, or inflaming other parts of the terrible triad?
Does anyone else have this as a similar problem?
I would like to apologize in advance for potentially being an idiot and getting any of my anatomy wrong, I am not great at knee anatomy at this very point in time (meaning I am not a PT or anything), I was just wondering if anyone else had an opinion.
how do you perform them? if i go fast and dont control the negative, i generally get pain, but its cuz i went to heavy to maintain the form, you could try adjusting where the pads are on ur calfs see if that releives some pressure
Maybe your patellas are too close to the pad or something when you are lying down.
Anywho, in the mean time while you figure that out, try lying single-leg curls with a mini-band. I actually like it more than any leg curl machine I’ve used, and the contraction is pretty intense near the end of the movement.
Is the pain in the area of pes anserinus? If so, it may be an inflamed bursa. Semitendinosus, gracilis and sartorius all have their insertion there, and they can all flex the knee joint.
[quote]Lock wrote:
Is the pain in the area of pes anserinus? If so, it may be an inflamed bursa. Semitendinosus, gracilis and sartorius all have their insertion there, and they can all flex the knee joint.[/quote]
Lets not get complicated too soon. Video of OP preforming the exercise (if possible) to rule out severe form retardation would be appropriate.
[quote]Zeppelin0731 wrote:
I am not posting a form vid haha. I will simply substitute with some type of straight leg deadlift or RDL or something.
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Different muscles. You should be doing something like SLDL and Leg Curls to get all parts of the hams. Semi’s (SLDL) and Bicep’s (Leg Curls).
As to the pain. Make sure you are warming up enough and ramping in weight to your work sets. Foam roll your hamstrings, quads and calves. Do you get the same pain from any other exercises?
