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Knee Mobility

The Last Few Degrees: Why a Knee That Will Not Fully Straighten Matters

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Most people worry about how far their knee bends. Can I squat? Can I kneel? Can I get up off the floor? Those are the questions that come up, and they are reasonable ones. Almost nobody worries about whether their knee fully straightens, which is unfortunate, because a small loss at that end of the range has consequences out of all proportion to its size. Five degrees sounds like nothing. In a knee, it changes how you walk, how hard your quadriceps work, and how much you trip.

Pain Behind the Knee: The Area Nobody Talks About

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Knee pain articles are almost entirely about the front and the sides. The kneecap. The inner and outer joint lines. The meniscus. The ligaments. The back of the knee gets very little attention, which is unfortunate, because it has its own set of causes, one of which is a medical emergency and gets missed with some regularity. Here is what sits back there and what each presentation tends to look like.