What causes pain above both knees when standing up?

Question:

In the past few weeks I have had severe upper knee pain. The pain is only evident when I am going to stand from a sitting position. I am in my early forties and not obese. I can't figure this out.

Answers:
Your Own Knee Pain

Knee Pain - Why?
Most people know that bending wrong all the time will give you a sore back. You know if you stand with your back in bad posture it will eventually hurt. The same is true for knees. Legs have posture and position during movement. After years of bad habits they begin to ache. A knee injury that may begin suddenly is often just a "last straw" after pressuring and straining over months or years.

Knee Pain Fix #1 - How To Keep Cartilage Healthy
Probably the most common habit that pressures and eventually injures knees is letting body weight fall inward on your knees and the arches of your feet. This bends your leg slightly inward at the knee (sometimes more than slightly inward). Letting your body weight sway inward makes several problems.

You probably already know that if you plant your foot and turn your body in a different direction, it will twist your knee. This twisting often injures the cushiony cartilage in your knee, called the meniscus. You can strain or tear your meniscus suddenly from a big twist, or gradually by letting your weight fall inward, which makes the leg bones twist in a similar way, day after day, year after year.

Letting ankles and knees sway inward is a bad habit that damages knees.
It is not a "condition," it is something you can control using your own muscles
to hold your ankles and knees straight.

Letting your weight fall inward on your knee joint, instead of holding your weight up on your leg muscles contributes to other cartilage injury than just meniscus. It strains and wears the cartilage on the side of the knee, and stresses the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Stretched ligaments don't hold your bones in line, allowing them to rub and grind at unhealthy angles. Letting knees sway inward also interferes with normal thigh muscle use and how your kneecap moves when you walk. When you let your weight slump on your knee joints instead of using your thigh muscles, the kneecap can start to move slightly sideways instead of up and down each time you move your knee to walk. This rubs the cartilage on the inside of your kneecap. The friction can eventually break down and wear away the cartilage. This is called degenerative change.

Many people are told to accept the degeneration as aging, along with all the pain and disability that accompany it. They may be told they are flat-footed, or have a problem called pronation (which roughly means turning inward) or "knock-knees." But often, the cause is avoidable. Letting the foot and knee roll inward is easily corrected by using your leg muscles to hold your body weight, instead of letting body weight sag onto the joints of your ankle and knee. It is the same as not letting your shoulders round forward.

Other Answers:
There is a natural herb that helps keep joints lubricated.
I can't remember the name but the same herb is found in beer.

I prefer to take mine in liquid form.

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