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Hi Andrea and Gabrielle,

I will try to answer your questions!

Andrea: I’ve never had any knee injuries. I did gymnastics as a kid/ teenager and I’m sure I put some strain on my knees, but never actually hurt them. They do sometimes feel weak when I try to get up. Unfortunately I have not really retained any of that flexibility! You lose it when you don’t use it.

As for the “bad” movement, it is unfortunately enough after the event that I don’t remember the exact details, but I can tell you that I was laying down on the ground and moved my foot – I believe I was trying to get my toes to be in a straighter line next to my legs rather than pointing out at an angle. Basically I just pointed my toes harder and tried to move my foot to the side, toward my bottom and felt a sharp pain in my knee, so I immediately stopped that motion. Just to be clear, I have not been attempting to work through any pain, the area has been sore to the touch but does not hurt when I move my knee in any of the postures, or walking standing etc.

Gabrielle: I was laying on the floor on my back I adjusted my foot with my bottom on the floor and my knees were open, not touching. The tops of my feet were also on the floor. I have since determined that I didn’t actually need to make that “adjustment” in the first place and was misunderstanding what the teacher was saying. Now, if I’m wrong about that of course tell me, but I believe that there was no need to move my foot at all once I was already laying down.

Doe that answer the questions? 🙂

Incidentally, I took two days off (yesterday and Friday) and although I can still feel the sore area, it has lessened a lot. So that is good! I am hopeful it will heal by itself if I just go easy on it for a while.