Hello,
I’ve been experiencing pain at the top of the right knee. It originally was located, on the top left of my knee, in the past week I feel it in the center.
The likely cause of this was the use of high bar squat. I use a raised heel lifting shoe and I often went onto my toes as I got low into the squat (sub parallel).
I ordered some knee sleeves, they were sized to be the standard fit, and when squatting I have no pain or feeling of ‘something wrong’. I use them during my warm ups too.
In the morning my knee is stiff, and sometimes I wake up in the night with bad pain (from having been sleeping on my side). There is what I would call tolerable pain when sitting on the toilet, or at my desk chair at work (even at max seat height my knees are below the crease of my hip). When I walking up or down stairs the tolerable pain continues, higher pain when going downstairs.
I am confident this is quadricep tendonitis based on symptoms and searching on this forum and through the Facebook group.
I did purchase the knee rehab template and my question is, after all this context, is whether it is recommended to do knee rehab in the context of where I now have knee sleeves which are eliminating any negative sensation in the knee? My current squat programming is according to Powerbuilding II.
Maybe it is more nuanced, in that it is fine to squat with knee sleeves, but do sleeveless rehab to heal the tendon over the course of weeks/months?
It does hurt when I squat without knee sleeves, at least when warming up, and the pain is much higher if my knees are further beyond my toes. Using future heel elevation (squat shoe + weights under shoe) my knees do not need to travel as far forward resulting in more tolerable squatting.
Thank you - and appreciate the existence of the forum and all the help you’ve provided through resources e.g. Pain in training what do, the article on tendonothophy plus the podcasts.