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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP.
Does the pain always happen in the same joint position?  Or are you saying that slow squats cause pain but fast squats with the same RoM do not?

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Ok update after texting with my trainer. Sorry I had the wrong terms.

The my-knee-might-blow  pain was doing “bent-knee deadlifts” and he said my alignment was perfect. (No lecture needed. I stopped immediately when it happened. Rested. Tried not more and it happened again so we didn’t do any more).

Squats, with the slight external rotation and more flexion at the ankle was fine.

And yes it’s an exact moment in the exercise. TMI but it also happens the split second before sitting on the toilet.

Doing a fast jump-squat type thing doesn’t aggravate this knee thing (but I don’t usually do those bc too risky for me).

Continuing our research: did a few grande plies in 1st and 2nd and no pain.

So external rotation seems to eliminate the pain some.

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Hi, not an ortho but have had some knees and rehabbed them.

Hard to be sure without a doc looking at it.  But it COULD be damage to the articular cartilage in the patellofemoral joint.  (Articular cartilage: the "slippery" thin tissue that coats your knee joint bones and allows them to slip back and forth without pain when you bend your knee.)

If you had damage to a single spot, when you bend your knee exactly the right way, you'll be putting pressure on the damaged spot and that will cause pain.

An MRI will diagnose this.

If it IS this, (I'm the PP who wrote about knee rehab) I strongly recommend you try physical therapy.  Do some work on flexibility, see a good PT who can advise you about strengthening muscles around the knee, and then do the lightweight squats for years until it gets better.  It CAN improve even though some docs will say you can't regrow damaged cartilage.
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