hi there in this video I want to talk about medial knee pain hi welcome back this is Aw Boon Wei your exercise physiologist so now that we are a bit more specific we want to zoom into the pain that’s around your medial side of the knee so when we talk about the medial side we’re talking about this area so this is my right knee and we’re talking about the inside of the knee so my drawing is not the best but let me just illustrate to you when we are talking about the medial side what are the possibilities that can give you problems so this is looking from the medial side of your knee and different color represent different things and I’m trying to map them with different colors so the one that you see in black is your bone this will be your femur bone an then would be your tibia bone and the red one represents your quadricep muscles this particular one that’s coming to the side is what we call the vastus medialis okay and we have the adductor group muscle which is the blue one and then we have your hamstring group muscle which is the green one so all of these muscles or group can actually give you the sensation of medial knee pain so for quadriceps I mentioned vastus medialis adductor most of them actually ends up here so I’m not gonna separate them but probably can only find out when you do a series of tests for your hamstring group muscle the one in green this would be more the semi T semitendinosus the semi M the semimembranosus that is coming to the side of the knee and it actually ends up somewhere in front of your knee most people who have got hamstring problem can sometimes feel the medial side of the knee so I always say if you track you will know which muscle is giving you the problem so I will need you to feel your own knee and to make sure that you’re feeling the right part of the knee okay so as you can see this is my beautiful knee joint so what’s happening here is that I actually marked out with the same color of marker so that you can actually now visually look at what’s on your knee joint and you don’t have to be referring to you know textbook or even websites now just look at this own video look at your own knee and then make sense of it and I will try to show you so if we talk about your quads so this entire area is the quads but this region is already your Vestas medialis so you will tend to realize that this muscle only gets to work when at end range of extension of the knee okay somewhere around here as you can see I’m slightly bend it’s not activated it’s only when I try to fully extend it starts activating so that’s your vastus medialis and then come your adductor group muscle so what’s happening here is that I didn’t go all the way up to where my thigh area is just around the the medial knee so you can see and for this it’s really everything on the side over here this belongs to your adductor and when you talk about the medial knee right all this actually ends up somewhere here so this is the medial of the knee but I don’t know which part of it that you have so you’re gonna check on yourself right so adductor come from the side of your thigh and from here all the way down to the side here and for hamstring it’s kind of like a bit of intersection most of the bulk will come from the back the the back of your thigh and I’m trying to show you here so I increase this bump here okay if you were to try to flex your knee you will feel this area being activated okay so the semi T semi M muscle actually comes to this side of your knee okay so if we talk about the medial side we can already zoom in to which muscle is actually giving you the problem so you got to be more precise and then from there you can then check of course the professional will be able to help you so if you’re not sure you’re just somewhere around here you can try this few muscle it’s gonna hit one of them so what I mean by tracking is that when you feel your muscles in somewhere in the in a medial right you don’t know which one you just make sure you backtrack and see which one is giving you the problem sometimes it’s not just one sometimes it’s multiple so you if you backtrack and you try to palpate and if you can feel some sensation and if you want to know the difference try the other knee it should give you a different kind of sensation and for the hamstring you can actually try to go from the back so you have to feel it and to backtrack so that’s the medial part of the knee so yeah if you are able to track which part of the medial side of your knee is giving you the problem you I just showed you the back tracking so you can actually find out which is giving you the problem like I said it could be one muscle could be multiple muscles so try not to delay this problem and if you don’t know how to fix it can’t fix it if you’re in or the problem seek for professional this just shows you that it is your muscle that’s giving you the problem don’t spend your money on MRIs X-ray fix the muscles first make sure that you can find someone that knows his stuff or her stuff fix the muscle and if the pain is gone there you have it alright so that’s it for this video and that’s all I have for you today please take care and see you bye
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