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Hey, what's up, everyone? Thank you so much for checking out today's episode. This is episode

two of the Squat University podcast. Now, my goal with these shows

is to establish a blueprint for finding your body's true strength. I want to be able to bring you guys

as much value-packed content during this time to help you move better in the gym and in life,

decrease your bodies, aches and pains, and really help you reach your true athletic

potential. Now, with that being said, let's get to today's show. Now, the title of today's show

is going to be knee pain 101. I guess we'll call it a class session if we're going to play

off the whole university theme. So what I want to start with today is I want to sort of go over the common reasons we

develop knee pain as athletes. Now, we can sort of break it into two different categories. There's

direct or traumatic knee pain and there is non-traumatic or non-contact knee pain. Now,

let's talk about the first, just briefly for a second.

One of the most common causes of direct or traumatic knee injuries is like the torn ACL.

Now, at boosts physical therapy and sports performance here in Kansas City, where I work,

I see a ton of athletes with torn ACLs. It's usually one of the most severe injuries that an

athlete can sustain. Now, sometimes it's contact, whereas like another football player

would run into a running back, his knee collapses, it's torn. Sometimes it's non-contact,

but it's still a very traumatic injury.

And in fact, what we find is that it's one of the most traumatic

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