Benjamin Renaud
Level 8 Valued Member
Hello, I would like to know if anyone has had any kind of experience with medial knee pain with KB swings?
Let me explain, some 6-7 years ago I started training after a long period of inactivity. I jumped into the Insanity DVD program. After doing the first 30 days twice, I had to stop the first time and started again a few weeks later, I developed pain at the medial knee tendons. Basically the tendons forming the goose foot. Long story short it took years (2-3) to heal and be pain free.
During that time I discovered KBs and SF. Low back issues coupled to my knee issues kept me from being able to do S&S like I would of wanted to. Finally last year I started doing swings again and felt really good doing them. No back or knee pain, technique was good (I see an SFG once or twice a year) until after a few months of swings, tendon pain came back so I stopped doing swings again. This was early April 2020.
I took some time to rest ( about 2 weeks) and then tried to build back the load tolerance of my tendons doing KB DLs and kickstand DLs. Pain disappeared within the first weeks and everything seemed to go smoothly until earlier this month pain came back. I guess I had overloaded the tendons again even though I was trying to progress slowly and was adding volume/intensity in a staggered fashion, using a bell size adding volume, then going up a size while reducing volume to slowly add more volume until I'd move up a bell size again.
I have to say that I've seen 2 physios in the past for this issue. First one had me work on glute strength and activation which helped with my glutes but never with my knee tendon health. Second one I saw, pain was almost gone, mainly discomfort and tendon tightness, thought my issues were referred pain and didn't give me any exercises to do.
So my question again is: has anyone here dealt with pes anserinus tendinopathy? Either as a coach or a trainee? And if so does anyone have any practical advice other than seek help from a medical professional?
Thank you to anyone that might share something helpful.
Let me explain, some 6-7 years ago I started training after a long period of inactivity. I jumped into the Insanity DVD program. After doing the first 30 days twice, I had to stop the first time and started again a few weeks later, I developed pain at the medial knee tendons. Basically the tendons forming the goose foot. Long story short it took years (2-3) to heal and be pain free.
During that time I discovered KBs and SF. Low back issues coupled to my knee issues kept me from being able to do S&S like I would of wanted to. Finally last year I started doing swings again and felt really good doing them. No back or knee pain, technique was good (I see an SFG once or twice a year) until after a few months of swings, tendon pain came back so I stopped doing swings again. This was early April 2020.
I took some time to rest ( about 2 weeks) and then tried to build back the load tolerance of my tendons doing KB DLs and kickstand DLs. Pain disappeared within the first weeks and everything seemed to go smoothly until earlier this month pain came back. I guess I had overloaded the tendons again even though I was trying to progress slowly and was adding volume/intensity in a staggered fashion, using a bell size adding volume, then going up a size while reducing volume to slowly add more volume until I'd move up a bell size again.
I have to say that I've seen 2 physios in the past for this issue. First one had me work on glute strength and activation which helped with my glutes but never with my knee tendon health. Second one I saw, pain was almost gone, mainly discomfort and tendon tightness, thought my issues were referred pain and didn't give me any exercises to do.
So my question again is: has anyone here dealt with pes anserinus tendinopathy? Either as a coach or a trainee? And if so does anyone have any practical advice other than seek help from a medical professional?
Thank you to anyone that might share something helpful.
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