The Movement Brainery

POSTERIOR KNEE PAIN:

I think this is a common place to trip up in ortho PT. I often hear people go down rabbit holes with posterior knee pain or patients who have seen a PT who has diagnosed them with a popliteus strain or something like that...

In this paper from 2016, posterior knee pain was the third-most common region for people with knee osteoarthritis (37%) to experience pain, behind the medial joint line (75%) and patellar tendon (38%) (which again, may be a referral or fat pad irritation).

Most people had diffuse pain that moved around, but it’s helpful to recognize that posterior knee pain is common for intra-articular knee issues.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1063458416010050