Anterior knee pain

[toad]

this claim, could it not be due to a stretching effect on the hamstring muscle, as opposed to ANT.
As tight hamstrings can cause 'anterior knee pain'.

[physiobob]

this claim, could it not be due to a stretching effect on the hamstring muscle, as opposed to ANT.
As tight hamstrings can cause 'anterior knee pain'.

A SLR (straight leg raise) type stretch does not really stretch the hamstring muscle a such. This is because in 99% of people the tight connective tissue and neural structures will cause pain before the hamstring gets to it's end of range. You need to slightly flex the knee to stretch the hamstrings effectively which would release the neural and some of the connective tissue 'stretch'. Therefore the two techniques mobilise different tissues, the former stretching the sciatic and connective tract but not the hamstring muscles themselves.