So I had to go to my first physical therapy appointment today for my bad knee. Considering there's nothing seriously wrong with it, I was a little skeptical about the therapy. That and I think it's a little too time-consuming. I have better things to do. Anyways, so I went and talked to the therapist lady for a while, and she made me flex my muscles and bend my knee and all this crazy stuff, and then [GET THIS] she told me why I'm in pain. Yes, I now know what's wrong with it. Thank you, physical-therapist-lady-whose-name-escapes-me. Ok, so I'm going to try to explain it to the best of my ability. When she explained it to me it was with all the medical jargon, so I'll forgo that and give you guys the dumbed-down version. Ok, so here's the deal: Apparently when normal people walk, their thigh muscles, and the muscles in the lower leg contract to move the kneecap up and down. The kneecap is on some sort of [and this is the best way I can describe it] track that is where it's supposed to go. For some inexplicable reason, my kneecap does not stay on this track. Me kneecap doesn't go up and down, it goes out to the left. Hence why it's easy for me to hyper-extend it. Anyways, so now the muscles and ligaments and tendons on the left side of my kneecap are really short and tight, because they're used to my kneecap going that way. And the muscles and ligaments and tendons on the right side are really long, and loose and weak. So the deal is, I have to shorten those and strengthen them, as well as lengthening and loosening the left side. At least now I know why my knee hurts... So that's the deal with that. Just thought I'd tell ya'll. I'm pretty excited about the fact that hopefully we'll be able to correct the problem.