An Athlete's Guide to Chronic Knee Pain
But before you write me off as insane for claiming to be able to fix your chronic knee pain for life, make sure you keep reading.
When will they realize that if the common way to deal with chronic knee pain was effective, then not as many people would suffer from it? Nearly 60% of athletes and 25% of the general population will have it at some point.
I did the leg extensions and banded stretches. I trained my Vastus Medialis Oblique (VMO) with terminal knee extensions and peterson step ups. I did more hip dominant lifts in the weight room. I lived by those theories , but I also died by them! I noticed that my knees only got worse! GUT CHECK: Have you wasted time on ineffective treatments? So I started from the bottom.
After doing my "experimentations," I documented my findings. I wrote down things that went right, went wrong, worked, failed, and other notes that would be helpful to reflect on.
GUT CHECK: Have you wasted money on ineffective treatments? For a long time I thought my knees were at fault, so I tried the popular rehabilitation methods.
I trained myself to "forget" everything I thought I knew. Truth be told, I never put any focus on the knee itself. I worked without fancy braces. Without magical medicines. Without extravagant equipment. Just a few bands, a few ideas, and a lot of experimentation . I developed a systematic approach to fixing knee pain that I have since used to cure not only myself, but dozens of other people (see the testimonials below).
You get the same photocopied sheet of white paper with the half-assed drawings of people doing kiddy stretches and banded exercises.