joemac
Level 3 Valued Member
Hi.
I am making this post not as a question but as a "public service". After 2 years of effort I was able to resolve my knee pain and I wanted to share this information with anyone in case it can help others. I struggled greatly with this issue and hope to help others.
Two years ago I fell in love with kettlebells and immediately began training swings, getups, and goblet squats. From the very beginning I developed pain in both knees, but particularly the right knee. At the time I thought it was about my bad form, but I have since speculated that it was due to something previous from before kettlebells, but I don't know what.
At first I worked through the pain but it eventually got so bad that I could barely walk up the stairs. So I had to stop and do a combination of rehab through exercises recommended by a good physical therapist friend. I also implemented the "Knees Over Toes Guy's" program for knee health.
After 6 months away from kettlebells I returned but soon the issue came back and I had to stop again to do more rehab.
The pain had two dimensions, with the right knee pain much much worse than left knee:
Due to emotional issues, I traveled for 2 weeks to South America to perform the psychedelic medicine "Ayahuasca". I came only for emotional and spiritual reasons, but to my astonishment the medicine healed both my body and mind. It affected my body in a number of ways, but the most striking was that after only 2 sessions of the medicine that the #1 "lightning stabbing" pain disappeared completely and has never come back!
But the #2 pain remained and I could not figure it out. A year later, I was reviewing the Knees Over Toes program. One of his fundamental "knee health" exercises is the Hamstring Curl. But I had intentionally chosen never to do it because by my reasoning it looked silly and was totally irrelevant to my needs.
But one Sunday I decided to try it out after watching another friendly gym-goer do it. In 2 minutes I did 3 sets of 5. The next day I woke up with a tensions in my hamstrings I had never felt before, and particularly the right. And I felt it all the way through the end of the Thursday for a total of 4 days straight. But the amazing thing was that all of the remaining #2 pain was gone, as if healing had washed over my knees.
I now do Hamstring Curls regularly, my knees still have some pain, but are improving regularly, and I can do getups with pretty much no problem. My theory is that the Hamstring Curls basically activated my hamstring muscles which apparently I had not been really using, and so some layer of protection to the knees was added.
I hope this is of use to someone out there.
I am making this post not as a question but as a "public service". After 2 years of effort I was able to resolve my knee pain and I wanted to share this information with anyone in case it can help others. I struggled greatly with this issue and hope to help others.
Two years ago I fell in love with kettlebells and immediately began training swings, getups, and goblet squats. From the very beginning I developed pain in both knees, but particularly the right knee. At the time I thought it was about my bad form, but I have since speculated that it was due to something previous from before kettlebells, but I don't know what.
At first I worked through the pain but it eventually got so bad that I could barely walk up the stairs. So I had to stop and do a combination of rehab through exercises recommended by a good physical therapist friend. I also implemented the "Knees Over Toes Guy's" program for knee health.
After 6 months away from kettlebells I returned but soon the issue came back and I had to stop again to do more rehab.
The pain had two dimensions, with the right knee pain much much worse than left knee:
- Sometimes when I put too much pressure on the knee I would feel a "lightning stabbing" pain that would immediately halt any activity
- Even when #1 didn't exist, any movement of my legs would involve a general "inflamed" sensation in my knees, as if someone had place a fire pit below them and was heating them up.
Due to emotional issues, I traveled for 2 weeks to South America to perform the psychedelic medicine "Ayahuasca". I came only for emotional and spiritual reasons, but to my astonishment the medicine healed both my body and mind. It affected my body in a number of ways, but the most striking was that after only 2 sessions of the medicine that the #1 "lightning stabbing" pain disappeared completely and has never come back!
But the #2 pain remained and I could not figure it out. A year later, I was reviewing the Knees Over Toes program. One of his fundamental "knee health" exercises is the Hamstring Curl. But I had intentionally chosen never to do it because by my reasoning it looked silly and was totally irrelevant to my needs.
But one Sunday I decided to try it out after watching another friendly gym-goer do it. In 2 minutes I did 3 sets of 5. The next day I woke up with a tensions in my hamstrings I had never felt before, and particularly the right. And I felt it all the way through the end of the Thursday for a total of 4 days straight. But the amazing thing was that all of the remaining #2 pain was gone, as if healing had washed over my knees.
I now do Hamstring Curls regularly, my knees still have some pain, but are improving regularly, and I can do getups with pretty much no problem. My theory is that the Hamstring Curls basically activated my hamstring muscles which apparently I had not been really using, and so some layer of protection to the knees was added.
I hope this is of use to someone out there.
