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Hi Katie,

Great progress I just wanted to add that be aware that you have a slight inverted rolling of your kness, more commonly known as 'knock kneed' or 'genu valgum'.

Dont mean to offend by pointing this out, however it appears to be very mild and a muscular imbalance not a skeletal issue although it can cause arthritis later in life if un-treated.

It could be a number of things but the most common is weak glutes, and tight gluteus medialis which can be corrected with deep squats and the adduction machine with your torso bent to 45 degrees.

Once again great progress and no offence ment :)

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Hi Katie,

Great progress I just wanted to add that be aware that you have a slight inverted rolling of your kness, more commonly known as 'knock kneed' or 'genu valgum'.

Dont mean to offend by pointing this out, however it appears to be very mild and a muscular imbalance not a skeletal issue although it can cause arthritis later in life if un-treated.

It could be a number of things but the most common is weak glutes, and tight gluteus medialis which can be corrected with deep squats and the adduction machine with your torso bent to 45 degrees.

Once again great progress and no offence ment :)

Yup sure am aware of that! The right leg is worse due to recurrent dislocation (you can see its bent way more) I think its a genetic thing (my bro has it too) but good to know that more training might help - in fact I've noticed over time my walk has gotten better, feeling a bit more bow-legged!! In fact that knee problems was what got me motivated to start training in the first place as it gave way a few time (years ago) deep squats here we come! Ouch! And which abduction? Outer??

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Hi Katie,

Great progress I just wanted to add that be aware that you have a slight inverted rolling of your kness, more commonly known as 'knock kneed' or 'genu valgum'.

Dont mean to offend by pointing this out, however it appears to be very mild and a muscular imbalance not a skeletal issue although it can cause arthritis later in life if un-treated.

It could be a number of things but the most common is weak glutes, and tight gluteus medialis which can be corrected with deep squats and the adduction machine with your torso bent to 45 degrees.

Once again great progress and no offence ment :)

Yup sure am aware of that! The right leg is worse due to recurrent dislocation (you can see its bent way more) I think its a genetic thing (my bro has it too) but good to know that more training might help - in fact I've noticed over time my walk has gotten better, feeling a bit more bow-legged!! In fact that knee problems was what got me motivated to start training in the first place as it gave way a few time (years ago) deep squats here we come! Ouch! And which abduction? Outer??

Were was the dislocation??? And what was the severity of the dislocations??? One of the major causes of lateral/medial and anterior knee pain is not the knee structure itself but overtightness in the hips, weak abductors and glutes. A feeling of a joint 'giving way' can be due to a lack of cartilage which can be genetic and/or a lessening of cartilage due to the upper leg pressing agaisnt the knee structure at a unusual angle.

Abduction is the legs moving away from the groin and adduction towards the groin... Think of aliens abducting you for abduction (taking you away) and adding for adduction... Thats how I remembered for my exams!!

So yes, outer for you.

Proper leg training will strengthen and re-align your knee structure and hip structure. Ruling out that you didn't suffer a malnutrition and nutritional defect as an infant and young child which would have caused a bone weakness and malformation I can tell you that visually your condition is 100% fixable with the correct lower leg training programme :)

Best of luck!!!

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righty-ho!! outers it is! it would be nice to correct it, never actually knew that you could without surgery to be honest, or at least that was the 'old skool' thinking. The dislocation was outer and had surgery years ago to shave the tendons as they were too tight which the issue. A Larthoscopy or something I dunno I was 20 or something and it has only happened once since then when I knocked it on something (was very drunk thank God!) from the xrays thats I've seen of the issue its always pulled slighty out to the right, but all the other bones appeared to have developed and positioned correctly the main culprit was just the tendon being too tight, which as I said was fixed. Best get myself buns of steel!

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on another note, I broke my left femur when I was very young and was in traction for 6 weeks, hence right leg (problem knee) is a few mils shorter, therefore throwing hips out of balance and reinforcing the problem. I've had a lot of chiro over the years which has helped to realign those parts as it then throws out shoulders and neck and all sorts!!! But having said that after year,s of strength training I see the chiro less and less

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on another note, I broke my left femur when I was very young and was in traction for 6 weeks, hence right leg (problem knee) is a few mils shorter, therefore throwing hips out of balance and reinforcing the problem. I've had a lot of chiro over the years which has helped to realign those parts as it then throws out shoulders and neck and all sorts!!! But having said that after year,s of strength training I see the chiro less and less

Haha yup buns of steel are always good to have!

Wow thats a few injuries... Hope your fine now though good that your seeing the chiro less :D

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on another note, I broke my left femur when I was very young and was in traction for 6 weeks, hence right leg (problem knee) is a few mils shorter, therefore throwing hips out of balance and reinforcing the problem. I've had a lot of chiro over the years which has helped to realign those parts as it then throws out shoulders and neck and all sorts!!! But having said that after year,s of strength training I see the chiro less and less

Haha yup buns of steel are always good to have!

Wow thats a few injuries... Hope your fine now though good that your seeing the chiro less :D

As you build more muscle mass around your legs and butt it will help heaps and give you more 'support' around the joints. Certain things you cant correct (bone lengths, bone positions) but by looking at your lower half there's definetly lots that can be done to improve your mobility, posture and aesthetics.

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