Sore Knees when Stretching

[Aodhan]

Well my knees only hurt while they are stretching, so I do not want to be stretching a ligament or something. After stretching or the next day, they are fine. Like orion said, for me too, its not really a pain because I do not push it cuz i dont want to screw up my knees.

Where in the knee is the pain? If it is interior (Kind of inside middle of the knee), then it is probably a ligament thing, and I would have an orthopod take a look, you shouldn't be having pain there.

If it is more towards the surface of the skin/outside of the knee, then it is tendon/muscle in origin, and will go away once they get used to being stretched.

Ligaments connect bone to bone, and are like the springs in old click pens. If you stretch them out, you can never quite get them back. (Which is why people with chronic dislocations of the shoulder get them stapled, the ligaments have stretched out). Tendons connect muscle to bone, and while they don't stretch much, they and the muscle will eventually stretch out.

Oh, and this just occurred to me, IIRC, ligaments don't have many nerve connections, so the pain is probably going to be muscular/tendon in origin.

Aodhan

[ncole_91]

When I do like front slips, it is inside the knee, but when I do like a lying V stretch, it is on the inside of the knee and usually it is only one knee, but it alternates the knees