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Anyone here have "knock knees"?

nkeklund
nkeklund Posts: 35 Member
edited March 5 in Fitness and Exercise
Please state if you have. I'd like to get a discussion going. I've had them my whole life. My right knee is much worse than my left. For the record, I never had any problems or pain growing up, I played basketball heavily. It wasn't until I was 25 and was playing basketball one day and shot the ball from a long distance and pulled or sprained something........I saw a specialist and MRI revealed nothing torn. I'll post more later.

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  • nkeklund
    nkeklund Posts: 35 Member
    Nobody?
  • FeefWV
    FeefWV Posts: 36 Member
    I'm 62 and was an avid runner until May of 2012. My left knee "just gave out on my" per my profile. The rest is history. I can appreciate your dilemma though.
  • lavenderphoenix
    lavenderphoenix Posts: 48 Member
    I do. Dislocated my right knee (torn patellar tendon, 1/2 inch bone chip from the end of my femur) in 2004. Other than that I've been ok (knock on wood)
  • SonyaCele
    SonyaCele Posts: 2,841 Member
    if the dr found nothing wrong, maybe you just need to strengthen the muscles in your legs and around your knees, to pull your knees straight. ? i spend a lot of time focusing on torquing my knees out while lifting, so they don't bend in . and i focus a lot on that torque even when i'm not lifting. and i have a tore acl, strengthening my leg muscles has done a lot for my knee issues.
  • nkeklund
    nkeklund Posts: 35 Member
    edited October 2014
    It's way too late to get my knees straight. Probably should have had braces or something done when I was much younger. It seems strengthening exercises for the thighs, glutes, all around the knee is supposed to help and watching how I walk upstairs, trying to turn leg a little bit so the right knee is straight, if I don't watch it, it is inward and pain will set in likely. As for squats, I've been told by a physical therapist that some of the machines for squats at the gym are dangerous for knees or risky. Some of the stair climber machines trigger the pain immediately. I don't use them or trust them.

    Maybe I'll have to have the knee replaced when I get older if it gets too bad.
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