Popping knee, no pain

[beeblebrox]

When i was 16-17 (currently 23), i had problems with both knees when running and playing soccer. My docor said it was possibly because of my weight (at that time about 170cm and 73kg) and growing up phase. I got the doctor's note to MR, but never went to it, cause it was 10months for waiting and my knees got better in a 3 months or less. I had never since it problems with my knees, training and playing soccer ever after. But:

My knees pop all the time. First pop is when i extend the leg (sound1) and then it pops again after i contract the leg on angle of about 45° between my thigh and calves (sound2).Sound1 is louder, longer and it happens just the first few times when i am doing extention and contraction in many periods to describe a situation. Sound2 is silent and quick pop, after repeating the rutine it gets almost quiet. But it's unstoppable it pops everytime. Poping (sound1 and sound2) is never painful, it's just annoying as hell. And it's perfectly the same situation on both legs. I've read a lot about poping knees but the doctor oppinions vary. So? It's showing any injury simptoms or it's just a sound? Is there is any exercise to make it better? I've read of some knee tests for diagnosing the injurys. Which would show my possible injury? I am currently off court, conservative healing sport's hernia so a few exercises beside all i am doing wont bother me at all. :P

Tnx for what's you are doing and please carry on the good work. Regards, Bostjan

[Heidi]

Hi
Generally popping or clicking noises like this are pretty common and if they are not painful then they usually aren't anything to worry about.
If you find it that annoying, what I would suggest is that the problem is possibly coming from the knee cap moving out of alignment (although it could be a number of things other than this).
Try stretching all of the surrounding knee muscles and work on stremngthening the inner thigh (VMO).