Knee Pain while Hiking

Do your knees hurt when hiking? Knee pain when hiking is pretty common and it usually occurs due to lack of control at the hips. Hiking on uneven terrain and going down hill are the two most common situations that give people knee pain while enjoying the great outdoors. In both situations hip mobility and stability is key. Walking down hill, the hips must effectively externally rotate in order to accept the body weight when doing down. If the hips can’t ER well, the body weight must be managed somewhere and that can happen at the knees.When walking on uneven terrain, the hips must be able to stabilize to balance the body on one leg. This balance comes from being able to push into the ground to remain upright. Pushing into the ground requires hip internal rotation at the hip. If hip IR is absent the knee may cave in to produce the stability needed. Try this ramp box squat with a pause to help your knees by training your hips to absorb force and create stability. The lowering phase helps build ER and returning to standing from the paused position really improves hip IR.

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[RogerGonzalez-zh]

I love how yt doesn't let us save these reels. Ugh

[UniPasta]

This is a common problem for me and my hiking friends... Thank you so much. Can you do a video about IT band syndrome too

[williamhyde]

Does this strengthen the knees? Even if I have penguin feet? (My gfs term)

[michelegiannone]

Knee never fix...while they hurt...is alteady Arthritis...

[NavajoNinja]

Walk with ur toes. Walking heel toe makes u sorta stomp. I imagine walkin with a thumbtack under my heel.

(Also; ur knees hurt if all ur used to is even ground. But uneven ground fires all ur stabilizing muscles around ankles and knees)

[frenchiestfry]

Oh yea? How do you fix flat feet then if youre sooo smart?...please. ive had enough of my feet slapping the pavement every time i get out of the pool