fuck my knees

doctor.

Semi-hijacking your thread but does anyone know wtf is wrong with my knees?

if I squat all the way down (knees totally relaxed like the slav-squat) and then lift up with my knees, they make this HORRIBLE crinkling sound, like you are crinkling up a candy wrapper.
It is painless but one time I did it hundreds of times b/c it freaked my friend out and the next day I was in a lot of pain.

Also they pop constantly, Just about every 5 minutes if I pull my lower leg back there is a loud popping sound.
I do it while I'm sleeping in my bed and I probably pop them every 5 minutes all night long. It doesn't really feel like anything but it's just a habit from hearing it.

My knees have been this way since I was young.

You don't need massive squat numbers to get juicy legs. get to a working weight that is more comfortable and increase your frequency and isolations.

What's more important, literally ruining your knees for the sake of vanity or just maintaining them to be workable?

>>41171090
makes sense, thanks man

If you have knee issues from lifting -

The most common reason, barring a traumatic injury, for experiencing pain around or inside your knee is poor form. This can be poor loading (knees too far forward), inwards collapse (feet rolling inwards or too wide of a stance).

The second most common is, mechanical instability of the joint, usually brought on by an imbalance of the supporting musculature. This isn't "oh, I'm quad dominant with weak hamstrings". This is tightness in the musculature, usually in the quad (vastus lateralis, sometime medialis), psoas, calves, or around the hip (flexors, glutes, piriformis, etc.)

To fix your shit - foam roll before every workout. Hit your mid to upper back, glutes, piriformis, quads, adductors/abductors. Focus on tightness or trigger points.

This should alleviate the pain and will hopefully get you back to pain free lifting.

>>41170986
I am going to help you fix your knee issue. I need to ask some questions first to get my head wrapped around your specific issues.

Is it a single knee or both?
Can you describe where the pain is happening?
Are there other specific movements that cause the same pain?

I am going to try my best to understand where in your knee the pain is, and whether the problem resides upstream or downstream.

What I mean by this: Knee pain isn't always a direct result of a pull/strain of a certain ligament. Often times, there is a constant pull that is caused by some thing upstream (hips/glutes/etc.) or some thing downstream (flat foot, knocked knees, poor ankle mobility, etc.)

So that is how I can help you

>>41171519
thanks this makes a lot of sense - i recently started yoga and can confirm my quads / hips are crazy tight.

going to really start working on them.

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>>41171525
thanks!

- Both knees
- The pain is under the knee cap (in the image i uploaded, it looks like the patellar tendon)
- Specifically i get it from squatting (also leg press)

Do leg presses and Bulgarian split squats and don't even touch the leg extension machine. Also don't go too much beyond parallel.

>>41171005
fpbp

> getting medical advice from bros at /fit/

fuck

>>41170986

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/rxm2uqqmjqx6m3g/AAA7Z0nyaYlcNrowfjtfzsFda

Sounds like you need Trigger Point Therapy Bro-Hammer.

Do everything on this list and youll be right as rain.

>>41171005
Doctor's aren't knee specialists and physios will take 10 appointments to fix your problem, It's not some scam but they don't really help.

http://modernhealthmonk.com/ultimate-guide-to-chronic-knee-pain-runners-knee/
This shows you what you need to do pretty much but replace the body weight exercises with stronger stuff and roll every muscle below your waist.