Running with knees that hurt and are not getting better trough time is no fun, and being addicted to running doesn’t help either.Fortunately, pain isn’t always a definite sign of tissue damage; instead it can be protective pain that is coming from entities called myofascial trigger points.
Pain from trigger points can feel like its coming from knee joint or patellae, while it’s actually coming from contraction knots in
quadriceps muscles.
What makes things quite enigmatic is that these knots can sometimes reside high in quadriceps muscles, far from where actual pain symptom is felt. It’s not uncommon for knee pain to be solely or partially muscular. It’s also common for doctors to overlook trigger points as a possible pain cause, because at this point there is no imaging equipment in use, which could verify their existence.
For now, only way to find out if trigger point are part of pain equation, is manually palpating and searching for them from muscles. There are not many doctors who do this, or know how to do this, or think that it’s even beneficial to do this.
