Knees serve as the crucial link between ankles and hips, involving your back muscles, calves, hip flexors, hamstrings, and the inflexible IT band. For women, there's also the pelvic floor and groin muscles, not to mention the bottom clenchers; all these factors impact your knees. This month, my blog is titled Can Shiatsu help my knee pain? I will explore some of the ways your knees become painful when the knee joint itself isn't the cause.