Knee Pain

does the pain start in your hamstring and then to develop to the left side of the knee?

Not really. It started as pain on the outside and outside back of my left knee only. Now I get tightness (not really pain) along the length of my ITB from time-to-time as well.

I had ITB issues for a good part of this year. After messing around with fit, foam rolling and stretching I went to see a good physic (Bluerip00 off of here) who's fixed me up very quickly. My issue was muscle imbalance in my right (the problem side) leg which meant that when fatigued my knee would track inwards on the down stroke. This caused the pain on the outside of my knee. Single leg weighted squats to build up my quads and glutes had me fixed in a few weeks.

I can't reccommend Bluerip00 enough.

Thanks. I'm seeing a good physio who I'm sure has diagnosed me correctly. My exercises involve glute activations, step-ups with weights, pendular swings (kinda like this but I hold the weights into my shoulders) and single leg squats. Until now, as I say, I've not been engaging my glutes in some of these which is putting more strain on other parts of my thigh.

Doppelkorn sounds almost the same as mine. So long as I stretch and carry on doing so. Going to the gym and doing light weight lifts moving legs out and in help.

I figure I'll always have the pain it's just a bastard to deal with.

I'm starting to come to the realisation it might be something I have to just manage and live with. It's annoying that it's probably got *worse *over the past 3 weeks, despite the fact I've done very little. Perhaps *because *I've done very little? I deliberately did a 10 day rest period over Xmas which had basically no effect. This morning it twinged walking to the bus stop.

I'm fucking 28. I'm too young for this shit!!!!!!

Thanks for your replies, sincerely. I just need to vent and it's encouraging to know I'm not the only one.