Knee Pain in Squatting (A Simple Test)

Have you or your clients ever experienced knee pain while squatting? The pain might be a signal that there’s an issue with your knees, of course, but for those of you who are more familiar with the pain neuromatrix, you know that the pain might actually be a result of a neurobiomechanical issue occurring elsewhere in the body.
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In this video, we will show you a simple test to assess whether the knee pain could be due to a lack of coordination or control in the trunk and pelvis. It’s a super quick process, so you just need a couple of minutes to grab a band and give it a try!
Video Highlights:
Understanding the role of trunk stability in knee pain
Simple assessment protocol
How to interpret your findings

[@daniaelabadilah9482]

Very helpful! thank you.
I started having knee pain after sissy squats, and this helped a lot.

[@ZHealthPerformance]

Happy to hear it was helpful. Thank you!

[@thomaslewis247]

what if the added tension doesn’t reduce the pain?

[@animan-ti7qt]

Do it with less weight/ warm up and stretch first.

[@dathrakki4892]

What about knee pain if it's potentially coming from the feet up?

[@change9729]

good idea

[@ZHealthPerformance]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Sneaker_sneakpeek]

What to do after finding .. ?

[@ZHealthPerformance]

If you find tension from either the left or right side of the body decreases your knee pain, we would include things like Pallof Press into your training to help. Usually this test will let you know that your knee is compensating for either core or hip issues.

[@wicki-e]

I’m 15 and whenever I put pressure on my knee (squatting) to reach sth beneath me I would feel the pain in my knee and I have no history of doing squats (working out) or anything I Suddenly just got it it’s been 3-4 days now and I think it’s getting worse

[@zt1647]

I am having the same problem. Did your pain reduce?

[@mohammadzaayedakhtar6898]

Brother, decrease squatting speed and try to bend more(go more downward) -> this will lead to stretching of quads but it may pain for 1-2 days in quads