Excellent points above about ego. Always a bit of a battle with me no matter what I am doing but much better lately.
Swings/goblet squats are great correctives but NOT if doing them aggravates the situation. There is an order to these things. You have to go as far back, as deep and soft as necessary to from a base, then on to the next step and then the next, stabilizing each as you go. Reading through Egoscue book that was recommended to me pre-therapy, what he seems to be doing for valgus knees, is totally unloaded, not even weight of torso, contraction and relaxation alternating of isolated glutes, then hip flexors, longish sets. That is the direction my PT was going and it did help but she had very low load on and I think no load at all is where I need to start. I have been experimenting and find it easy to flex glutes if very slightly loaded, like lying prone and lifting straight let towards ceiling from hip. I did have problem with it at first and that is where she started me. I can do that fine. But just flexing the glute, with no stimulus signal from any load I find incredibly difficult. that tells me that is more of a working edge. Ballistics like swings or even slow controlled load like goblet squats, over rides the problem area in me, I need to go all the way back, in a sense to infancy, and connect the wiring from zero. THEN loading with light then heavier squats and THEN...after that...ballistics.
The more I read between the lines about barbells vs kettlebells, what Conner78 said above seems more and more true. Barbells/dumbbells give only compressive load while kb's do a lot of stretching joints open. So if properly done and programmed, kb work contains a lot of its own recovery if that makes sense.
Barbells are better for getting "big" I know but I don't really need that, just strong and healthy fibers, densely packed and with lots of healthy mitochondria. So longer term A+A swings or snatches seem like a worthy goal to me.
I was having great fun and making good progress with A+A snatches when this blew up on me. I started with a 12 kg bell, enough to feel but plenty light enough to overpower if I got into trouble (I weight about 120 or a bit less). Used that to regroove the pattern since I had not snatched in quite a few years doing only swings, getups and grinds. I had worked up to sets of 5 with 20 kg for 40-45 minutes with no problems at all and was enjoying it a lot. Then knee started to flair up. Then a couple injuries outside training tossed me off the cliff so to speak.
Just following the trail of popcorn through the woods now. Headed back...and per the orthopod, it appears the Wicked Witch won't be eating me any time soon