The knee joint is one of the most weak spots of the leg. In it two long bones of which loading of all body is the share connect. During abrupt movements or excessive loadings in process of squats of people can feel pain in knees. The reasons for that can be a little, and not always they are connected with sports activities.
The causes of pain in knees during squats
The most common cause of pain in knees at squats – the wrong performance of exercises. In an inadequate way the put feet, too abrupt movements or strong depth of squats can cause unpleasant and even sensations of pain during the training.
Incorrectly picked up loading can be other cause of pain. And, it can happen not only during squats to weight, but also just from excessive efforts and trainings to wear. That is why it is important to be able to commensurate the level of physical training and loading, and it is even better – to begin to play sports after consultation with the skilled coach who will pick up to you the individual program of trainings.
Sensations of pain in the knee joint often arise also due to the lack of the extension and warm-up during which muscles just and are prepared for the subsequent loadings. If not to warm them before intensive squats, it is possible to catch easily stretching and even ruptures of muscle tissue. Knee pains during squats can be also not connected with sports loadings. Perhaps, once got and already forgotten trauma, the aggravation of symptoms of cartilaginous layers or inflammatory process in the knee joint lets know about themselves. The constant pain amplifying at squat can also testify to Osgyusta-Shlatter course of a disease – the osteochondropathy of the tibial bone. Teenagers and professional athletes who should squat often are especially subject to this disease. In addition knee pain during squats can signal about the lack of the organism of certain vitamins and nutrients or adjournment of salts of the knee joint. At girls the habit to wear constantly high-heeled can be shown by such feelings.
What to do at knee pain during squats
Unpleasant feelings in knees during squats and furthermore painful, have to become the signal that it is time to stop the training. Sharp and severe pain can testify to the gap or sprain therefore in this case it is necessary to put immediately cold to the injured knee and to visit the doctor. It is worth addressing the expert and in case pains not single, but constants. In this case it is useful to make X-ray. It is also important to reconsider the system of trainings and, perhaps, to lower load of knee joints. It is necessary to watch and behind the correct arrangement of legs – knees and socks during squats have to be directed strictly forward, and the angle between knees and the back part of legs shouldn't be acute.