Need opinion on issue with knee...

[ghettostudmuffin]

So about 2 weeks ago I had a good squat workout.

I was doing atf squats with 250x5. Everything felt fine during the workout although I seem to recall feeling some minor unpleasantness on a rep of my last set on my right knee.

I had very little toe flare. Almost none. I think I may have either overstretched or very slightly tore something above my knee.

As for where the pain is, it not on or in the knee at all. It's not even directly above the knee where some tendons are. It's about 2-3 inches above the knee cap.

It's ODD.

So they day after the workout I noticed a little soreness there and I know the difference between muscle soreness and soreness caused by having messed something up, or at least I think I do. Deep bodyweight squat tests throughout the next week caused minor discomfort there.

So yesterday I started the old school Bill Starr 5x5 and squatted 230x5 atf with absoluetly no discomfort AT ALL.

So I figured everything was copacetic. Wrong.

Today at work I hauled some concrete to the recycling plant and as I was unhitching the trailer I squatted down atf and holy CRAP I had a sharp pain there. It actually made me curse and I straightened it out.

But, no pain at all afterwards and while walking around nor while hopping in and out of the nearly 5 foot high bed of the truck. Right now I gonna do a BW only atf squat.....Nothing. No pain.

WTF?

WTF?

I am not sure if I should start my squats tomorrow which is a light day anyhow and just go by feel and if I don't notice any pain or oddness with 135 then just go at it or if I should stop all squats for several weeks until this weird sharp pain 2-3" above the knee cap that feels more like the very lowest part of the quad that only crops up once or twice a day if I squat down sharply.

I do have to mention that I had not done any squats over a single rep for months and then hit a max set of 5 on the squat out of the blue, Although I did 5 increasingly heavy warmups sets. I try to tell myself it's just dep muscle soreness, but the non existent toe flare I used tell's me I might have over stretched the lower quad possibly?

Like I said, I felt pain once when squatting down today at work. I've crawled over concrete. Climbed over the side of the truck several times and jumped off the bed morethan once without any pain at all.

Any opinions?

 

[SgtSlaughter]

I've gone through similar odd knee pain in one knee as well... before ATF squating though.

What made my knee stronger was a nice OLY stance... and streching morning, noon, and night almost every day...

So I guess I'd reccomend streching hip flexors and everything else down (it's all connected).

Tomorrow I'd start light... maybe even a slow treadmill walk to really warm your knees up... and stop if you at all feel any pain, don't push past it.

 

[blut wump]

Definitely give it chance to heal if it's hitting you occasionally through the day. Warm up with just the bar for, maybe, a set of 10 and then another set of ten with just a ten at each end. Think of it more as limbering up than warming up. I wouldn't try to push the squats until you can feel comfortable doing them.

It sucks but it'll be worse if you turn a minor tear into a major one. It could possibly just be a spasm that's refusing to let go in which case it'll pass in time. I think you should stretch out the area two or three times per day too.

 

[ghettostudmuffin]

It may be a spasm or minor tear.

I've decided to let it heal up before hitting my legs again. I'm not happy about it, but I've remained serious injury free so far and plan to keep it that way. Some careful stretching several times a day and keeping an eye on it will be it.

It's odd how it comes and goes. It may very well be a spasm. It feels tight there when I stand up and lift my knee into the air. Doesn't hurt, but feels tight in the lower thigh/upper knee cap.

I'm still gonna work the upper body hard though.