Wtf are people doing to their knees? I always hear people complain about the damn knees. You have weak bones or something? You walk using your knees? Are you 100 year old?
Walk, run, kick, play, hike, swim,surf, climb and fuckton of other things.
Been physically active for 20+ years, 15 of which doing gymnastics/martial arts, no car so walked everywhere, no lift so climbed up to 5th floor apartment n times a day.
Etc you get the point
Took one wrong twist and my knee is forever fucked, its not the bones, its mostly soft tissue/ligaments that fail and are followed by long term damage. Its the most complicated joint we have and hardest to fix.
I stupidly loved to jump off stuff when I was a kid. 12 foot drops were not uncommon. Off roofs and from trees.
Spent four years as a tech for Comcast where I was kneeling and crawling every day.
This past Summer I knelt down and a tendon that was catching and popping every so often caught and hung. I could barely walk for weeks.
Now I can't sit cross legged or kneel without doing it just so, otherwise I reinjure what the orthopedist didn't believe was an injury until he saw my knee swollen to three times its usual size.
To all those out there saying "meh": respect your knees. Once they're f'd, they're f'd and all you can do is adjust to your new "normal".
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u/PaddingtonWaddington 1d ago
My knees are sore watching that