Knee Pain With Pistol Squats (SHE HAD PAIN FOR 5 YEARS!)

Gretchen had been dealing with left knee pain for the past 5 years that severely limited her ability to single leg squat. Today I'm going to walk you through our entire evaluation and treatment that allowed her to perform a pain free pistol squat!

Eval takeaway: her knee pain wasn't a problem AT the knee. That's just where the symptoms were. Her cause was all the way up at the hip! Until the movement related factors at the joints above and below the site of symptoms are uncovered and addressed, most injuries will not resolve!

Reminder: this is not the end "magic pill." What this eval showed was the problem and the path to the ultimate fix. It will then be on Gretchen to continue these exercises and slowly build back pain free capacity. But through this simple test & retest method, we can see how this path is the right one for her body.

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[zainali]

Amazing assessment ! So educational
Nobody gives this sort of information for free

[algon]

The only problem with Squat University is that they are not in Houston TX. Great video Doc!

[BH_Restorative_fitness]

Combining these case studies with your books is absolutely amazing. I feel like I’m taking a college class. Thanks so much.

[Micawesome]

I literally have the same exact problem, quality content omg thankyou😭

[stuartpollock]

This is perfect, I have this exact issue and have done these things in the past but once things are 'fixed' you kind of forget about doing them and then slowly the issues come back and you can't remember how you fixed them the last time. So these are great reminders.

[DianaMatienzo]

The education you provide is beyond amazing. Thank you for what you do! This is incredible work🔥

[marym]

I cannot believe I haven’t subscribed to this channel until now. Thank you a million times for this education.

[ONEILL]

Dude. I did that kettle bell groin stretch. WTF!! My knee pain instantly gone. Thank you

[denispopov]

Well I found about you a month ago, because I have a knee pain and I was searching for solution. I watched few of your videos (sooo well done by the way!), I implement some exercises and my knee is a lot better!
You became my Go-To Channel when I want to find out something about the body mechanics!
Be blessed my man! You rock! Keep helping people, you are a saint for everyone who is in sports!

[wigletron]

I've been having the same issue and I think thanks to this video I've identified the problem as a tight groin. Thanks for posting these videos

[johntimm]

How wonderful for this patient, to be able to do a movement w/out pain that the same movement for 5 yrs has cause pain is so fantastic!! It is freeing for her I’m sure, and give hope for what the future and include for her. Congratulations to you both.

[Showdownxlm]

Had severe VMO pain on my left side, no knee pain though, even saw a PT who just recommended rolling it. It helped a little bit but the cause was very similar, glute inactivity on the hurting side aswell as lacking ankle mobility on that side, causing a hip shift and overuse of my left VMO to stabilize my knee during squat/legpress.

Videos like this helped to me find a way out of this. I did the exact same screeing you do, bottom to top and found my causes.. Iam painfree during the day and iam starting to get painfree during lifting aswell.

Thank you for your work and all these videos!

[drinnerd]

This dude is the GOAT. Also, that lady's arms are full on BEAST MODE! WOWZERS! She looks FANTASTIC!

[oliverthorcollington]

Definitely a win for the client AND the fitness professional. I'm sure it felt great for you to help her realize the issue and a solution that amount of time. Efficiency and effectiveness. Thank you for sharing

[aidenwalk]

I recently sustained a type 1 lcl injury during jujitsu and it has forced me to decrease my climbing and lifting frequency. These are sure to help!

[MohammedIrfan-gybv]

I am from India, moving to US in few months, I will be coming to your place for a 2 week camp ( non-insurance 16 visit) for lower body focus, I am on post-op ( 4th week), bilateral menisci repair/re balancing of complex tear ( M, L, Posterior horn)of both knees. Keep up the great work! I love your detailed work

[tinagarbacz]

Love following you and your podcasts! Thank you! I’ve been having knee pain for years as well, and I stopped seeing my PT because they just couldn’t figure out what was going on. I’m going to give some of these moves a consistent try!

[Idkaname-cooh]

Idk if you reply to old comments, but I have the same problem can squat fine but pistol squats kill my left knee, but last September I had an accident where a heavy object fell on my leg caused a bruised femur broken tibia what they told me was pretty much like a temporary paralysis of the quad torn meniscus and torn acl. Had surgery in December now 6.5 months out and cleared from the doctor after 5 months. I realized I still get a sharp knee pain at around the same time this lady had when doing pistol squats. Even if I’m walking up a later or really steep stairs I can feel it. It’s actually to the point if I’m walking down steep stairs I have to always lead with my left leg going down first cause the little pistol squat movement you have to do to bend and reach the next stair is to much on my left leg to do. So now even just out of habit If it’s steep stairs I bend down with my right step down with my left than bring my right leg to down to my left and repeat. Never had the problem before hand used to do pistol squats all the time with my left leg.

[jurnee]

YO! She's dealing with EXACTLY what I'm currently dealing with! And I've also had this problem for about 5 years! Wow! I how this works for me.

[senseichanel]

Ok this video is god sent and I recently got health care! I hope I get someone as good as you! 🥺🥺🥺