patella

Yeah I had pain around the patellar tendon last year and doing this helped.

I used to have patella tendinopathy in one of my knees from heavy squats.

I damaged the cartilage on the back of my patella doing something similar.

Doing a similar protocol with my patella tendon

If you stop at parallel, there is shearing force on the patellar tendon as that's where the tension is at the time when you change directions.

Push yourself to hard too fast and you'll be ignoring the track and back in the weight room recovering from something like patellar tendinitis.

I don't remember the costs any more, but I had essentially the same procedure using my patella and a meniscus tear repair.

If you run into issues with that, Martin Koban wrote a book on patellar tendinitis and has an updated online course with a recommended program for tendon strengthening.

You can get good critique of your form by posting a video at the starting strength forums where you might also find useful information from a search for patellar tendonitis/tendinitis.

The neuropsychological mechanisms, being exploited are about as primative as a patellar reflex.

When I was about 11 my left knee collapsed and I was diagnosed with Osgood Schlatter syndrome - the "syndrome" part of the name makes it sound a genetic, I don't believe it strictly is - it's just when the tendon tears off your patella.

Without looking it up, can you think of another direct way to improve patellar tracking issues due to overdeveloped vastus lateralis?Similarly, let's talk about 'functional ab muscles.

I have chronic IT band tightness on one side that pulls on something in my knee and gives me pain around the patellar tendon, but it goes away when I foam roll the side of my leg.- Do lots of warmup reps with bodyweight and/or just the bar.- Don't stop at parallel.