Hello,
For decades, I have sat in seiza. I have been able to get into seiza rather smoothly.
I recently got back into practicing Kenjutsu. A few months in, I started developing a pain near the connection where the patella tendon connects to the shin bone. Basically, the bony part of your knee that takes the most force when getting into seiza, just below the knee cap.
The pain shoots diagonally up towards the outside of my leg and ends about where the patellar tendon is, though the tendons are not connected to one another as far as I am aware.
Does anyone know of any exercises or stretches one can do to help alleviate this issue? Again, I have never had pain like this in all my experiences getting into seiza or doing any sort of suwariwaza, so this thing is quite new.
I thank you for your time.
For decades, I have sat in seiza. I have been able to get into seiza rather smoothly.
I recently got back into practicing Kenjutsu. A few months in, I started developing a pain near the connection where the patella tendon connects to the shin bone. Basically, the bony part of your knee that takes the most force when getting into seiza, just below the knee cap.
The pain shoots diagonally up towards the outside of my leg and ends about where the patellar tendon is, though the tendons are not connected to one another as far as I am aware.
Does anyone know of any exercises or stretches one can do to help alleviate this issue? Again, I have never had pain like this in all my experiences getting into seiza or doing any sort of suwariwaza, so this thing is quite new.
I thank you for your time.