Knees

With the lower back, the knee is probably the most injured joint in the body. The correlation of both of these 2 area's of the body is that they both have numerous other bodyparts that can influence the way it reacts to movement. For example, it's said that the knees are at the mercy of the hips.

If you go back to the joint by joint approach to training series, you'll see that the hip require mobility and the knee stability. When the hips don't have the mobility required to perform certain movements then the range of motion to complete that movement must come from somewhere else. That somewhere else is the knees in most cases causing a joint built for stability, developing mobility and thus weakness. Add to this limited ankle mobility and now your getting mobility for 2 joints, from the 1 joint. Not cool.

Most problems with your knees can be resolved when you clear up adhesion's in the glute medius, rectus femoris, ITB/TFL, psoas and the calves while improving your ankle and hip mobility while activating and strengthening your glutes.