Why do my knees hurt?

If I have never hurt my knees and am not very active, why would I get fluid on my knees?

• When i was in school, I had to go to the doctor because my knees hurt to bend down at my locker that was on the bottom of double stacked locker. I was not in any sports so it was off when my doc said that I had fluid on my knee. I have not had issues with it for a long time but a few years ago it came back and I had to have my knee drained again. I had them looked over and we came up with no good reason for this. I now work from home and i don't do too much, but I do sit with my legs crossed in my work chair alot. It helps my back sit straight up when i want to be closer to my computer. Is this the reason for the fluid now? I am only 25 years old so I don't feel like I should have issues with my knees just yet.

• Answer:

  I am a little confused on how they ever came up with that diagnosis and yet never have they given you a reason for it to happen. When it did happen in school do you remember if you also had some trouble doing the stairs? A little harder than usual to go up them? Whenever you bent your knee or only when you went down to your locker? Here is what I have found for most knees, they have a muscle attached to them and the muscle has a tendon on it and the tendons like to shorten themselves up sometimes and when they do it pulls the kneecap into your leg rather than letting it glide over the knee. That becomes a painful situation for any who suffer it, most dr.'s call it arthritis by mistake. All that needs to be done is have the kneecap tendon released. Here is how to do that. A warning about it, it does take a good amount of pressure on the tendon when you are doing the pulling your leg back, when the knee is going through the longest stretch it makes. If the tendon doesn't have enough pressure on it it can end up slipping by and not get the lengthening it is supposed to. I have had to help some with that one, the reason for my warning. Here it is: Kneecap: (Use a chair that has no cross members on it.) While sitting start with your leg out in front of you extended out to a comfortable length. Wrap your hands around it so you have a good two inches working area. Place your thumbs about two inches behind your knee and press into the top middle of your leg hard and hold. Relax. After 30 seconds, slowly slide that leg back until it is pulled up under the chair as far as you can make it go. Then release the pressure but hold your leg there for one minute longer.