Originally Posted by
taai gihk yahn
QFT +1,000,000
if someone comes in with knee pain not the result of direct trauma, if you only treat the knee, you are going to loose; feet, ankles, tib/fib, ITB, HS, hips, pelvis, sacrum / iliac, lumbars, heck, even thoracics, shoulders and in some rare occasions, temporal bones (really) can be at the "root" (with all sort of issues inbetween); the knees are the whipping boy, because they are designed to mostly move in the saggital plane / around a tranvserse axis, so don't compensate well for force vectors in other planes / around other axes;
the good news is that if you fix the other stuff well, the knee issue can decrease dramatically;
of course, if you blow out your ACL, it's a different story...