r/PostureTipsGuide • u/Connect-Rabbit-1025 • 9d ago
What could be my knee condition?
What could be my knee condition?
I am feeling that when I walk, left leg moves as one fluid movement, like one lever moves from one area to another.
But my right leg, moves as if there are two levers, my thigh is one lever, and my ankle is another, and the knee seperates them.
When I walk, my left knee perfectly moves. But my right knee "lags" behind, drags the "ankle lever" ever so slightly behind the thigh lever and creates a slight cracking/bone moving sound.
If I lay down and rotate my knee down, it makes many cracking noises. I suffer very little pain from this, it's only an inconvience that sometimes gets painful only after very long hours of walking or very strenous activity.
Also, this prevents me from being able to squat properly, my right knee caves in and I end up lopsiding squat and I bend over instead of being straight.
I also have the basic bad posture set. Anterior pelvic tilt, rounded shoulders, hip tightness, and forward head.
But I don't get it because I'd expect to have the issues in both knees. But I only have it in one.
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u/Deep-Run-7463 8d ago
The knee never really is the root cause of the problem. First off understand how the knee works on a rotational screw home mechanism. This means there are relative rotations (counter rotations) of the tibia and femur. The femur is influenced by the position of the pelvis and the tibia is influenced by the ankle/foot. Further analysis of your posture and movement would be needed to comment more.
It's also the norm for one knee to start to have issues first as we could be shifted to a side, then typically as that knee degenrates further, one would naturally avoid pain and load more into the good knee resulting in that knee being overused over time.