Playing soccer giving you knee pain? Is it pain on the outside of your knee? Been there, done that, still dealing with that.

Why one gets lateral knee pain can come from a multitude of factors - could be one wrong step, excess body weight or fat, playing on rock solid shitty turf, faulty movement patterns, lack of hip internal rotation and/or crap ankle mobility (videos on that soon), too much of the same movement pattern, etc. and likely a combination of a few.

This article is not the complete solution to a complex problem, but a quick routine and some ideas that should bring your knees some relief.

With lateral knee pain there is often tightness along that side of the body that seems to create compression forces in the knee leading to some grumpy menisici. I mean it was even proven in at least one scientific study by Bozkurt et al., 2004 called The Influence of Lateral Tightness on Lateral Knee Pain