Got Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome? I have some bad news, it’s not a knee problem.🔥
When the mechanics of the knee get rolled faster than a second grader walking though the park with a bag of Halloween candy, the knee itself shreds the connective tissue.
Here are two questions:
✅ Does your knee cave in under load?
✅ Does it hurt to squat?
If you said yes, your knees are being loaded about as symmetrically as a three legged mule. What ends up happening is that one hip drives more horsepower down than the opposite leg.
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Your adductors, which run along the medial femur and the pelvis, turn into a frozen garden hose, forcing the pelvis to move and load out of balance. The MCL gets sheared along with the lateral meniscus. The glute med/min and TFL paste together trashing your external hip rotation which bleeds even more power, and reinforces that funktastic motor patterning you’re sporting.
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Every time Knee flexion/extension is engaged, the knee loads translational not axial, taking the lateral and medial collateral ligaments through a beating that makes Jerry Springer look boring. Your knee problem is actually a hip problem.
THE FIX:
1️⃣ Banded Adductor Wall Stretch
2️⃣ High Hip Stretch
3️⃣ High Hip Figure Four Rollout
4️⃣ Single Leg Kettle Bell RDL
BOOM! You get to keep your knee! Smash you later!
