The Effects of Deep Knee Flexion on Patellar Tendon Pain

If we're talking squats, are we going to get more strength in the patellar tendon if we are pushing the knee further forward versus holding it back? It's an interesting question. Forward tends to give us more pain and it will actually irritate our patellar femoral joint as well. If someone's acutely sore and you ask them to do a split squat with their tibia vertical and it being the forward leg, it doesn't actually give them pain. So I don't know enough about it to say that it's better with it forward in terms of load or better with it in terms of having the tibia upright.