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So I want to talk about knee pain and tight calves.

Now especially when you get knee pain in the front part, just underneath the patella

or the kneecap.

Sometimes they call this patella tendonitis.

Now the patella is a kneecap and there's a tendon attached to the top part of that bone

which is then connected to your quadricep muscles on your front part of your thigh.

So this is usually caused by tight calf muscles.

Now sometimes it could be tight hamstrings but most of the time it's going to be a tight

calf muscle.

And you're going to have a difficulty of bringing your foot upwards.

So when you bring your foot upward that's called dorsiflexion.

So you won't be able to do that as well.

Why?

Because your calf is tight.

So there's an interesting 2011 study that shows that when you have reduced dorsiflexion

which is tight calves, that is going to increase your risk of getting patella tendonitis

by a factor of 16x.

So you want to avoid that condition because that's going to affect your ability to run, jump

and do other types of motion.

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