What's Your Knee Pain? The Cause. The Solution. Every Knee Pain Type.

Diagnose your own knee pain, understand the cause, and figure out how to fix it… all with this video. It’s often easy to figure out what your knee pain is coming from just from its location, description, & what aggravates it. If you can then understand the underlying cause, how to confirm the diagnosis, and what to do about it… you’re sorted!
Whether you have knee pain during running, knee pain during cycling, or you knee hurts going down stair, this video has you covered. I cover swollen knees, red puffy knees, knees that get caught, click grind, or give way.

MENTIONED VIDEOS:

0:00 Intro
0:12 Knee pain at the front of the knee
4:37 Inner knee pain
7:10 Outer knee pain
8:42 Pain behind the knee
9:38 This one thing causes many knee problems!

14 Knee Pain Types:
1. If your pain is at the front of the knee, under the kneecap, especially with running, cycling, or using stairs, but it isn’t swollen, it’s likely you have Runner’s Knee or Patello-Femoral Pain Syndrome.

2. If your pain is just below the kneecap, in the tendon that joins your kneecap to your shin bone, you’re likely dealing with Patellar Tendinopathy.

3. If your pain is just above the kneecap in the tendons of the thigh muscle, then it’s usually Quadriceps Tendinopathy.

4. Pain around that Patellar tendon can sometimes be inflammation of the fat pat underneath the tendon. (Infrapatellar Fat Pad Syndrome Or Hoffa’s Disease)

5. If your knee is noticeably swollen or even a little red at the front, and you’ve been kneeling a lot, you probably have a swollen bursa: Prepatellar bursitis

6. If you have a painful, swollen, hard lump below your knee, where your patellar tendon attaches to the shin bone, then you have Osgood Schlatter Disease

7. Now if the pain is on the inside of your knee, after an injury where you knee was pushed too far, you’ll likely have a strain of your inner knee ligaments (Medial Collateral ligament strain)

8. If you’ve damaged your inner meniscus though, you might notice your knee catches, gives way occasionally, or it’s hard to fully straighten or fully bend.

9. Arthritis can cause pain almost anywhere in the knee, but is more common in the inner knee. It tends to be a diffuse pain, is often swollen, and gets stiff after rest. Changes in weather can affect the pain, and often you’ll hear grinding or grating sounds.

10. If your pain is a couple of centimeters below the joint line, and a bit forward, you may have inflamed the Pes Anserine Bursa.

11. Outer knee pain with exercise is often due to rubbing of a tight ITB on the bones of the outer knee. Iliotibial Band Syndrome

12. If your pain is below the joint line, on the little bony lump where the outer fibula bone attaches to the shin bone, your pain is coming from the second, smaller joint of the knee: Tibiofibula joint inflammation

13. Lastly, pain behind the knee often comes from a strained Popliteal muscle… especially if you feel it near the fold at the back of the knee, or even slightly to the outside, when walking downhill or running.

14. Now if you feel a ball-like swelling at the back of your knee, that’ll be a Baker’s Cyst.

Attributions:
Knee Meniscus:

Outer knee view showing meniscus:

Meniscus tear:

Bowed legs:

Osgood Schlatter Disease:

Baker’s cyst MRI:

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[miriffairchild]

Patella tendon hurts when taking stair steps. I am exercising after a very long spondylodese (68 yrs) and having been inactive for years with non stop pain. Since surgery I have a incomplete hemiplegia on the right side.
Your explanation makes sense. Very well explained.
I just discovered aqua walking which is a blessing.

[k.jespersen]

Happily, I have none of these, right now! But in the past, I *have* had meniscus damage, which another of your videos helped me to diagnose. I also had prepatellar bursitis at one point, and had no idea what it was or what had caused it. Mystery solved! No more un-padded tiling for me.

Thank you for such an instructive video and excellent demonstrations!

[mackerelcat]

The exercise you showed just relieved the longstanding pain in my knee at the small tibial joint. That is just amazing -- thank you so much.

[susanfit]

Hello from the US. I have outer knee and under knee cap. I use the rubbing technique. It has helped so much. Thank you

[stephendanielmoser]

Could you kindly do a video of how to fix the neck axis

[chrisppancake]

miniscus injury for me at the moment. single point of pain on the inner knee at the joint. been 2 weeks now, knee stiff after sitting, only painfull if the knee flexes in or out not bending although it does make normal bending stiff initially

[essiej]

Thanks for the video! Instead of massaging the outter thigh for a tight IT band, can a foam roller or tennis ball be used? Same thing for tight quads?

[graphguy]

Solution is stop eating processed foods, particularly processed sugars.