The sarcasm is thick in this thread, but there seems to be a misconception here. My school's sports medicine doctors and therapists aren't completely inept and one of the very first things I was told to do for rehab was to squat frequently. So on that front, I don't think they're doing me a disservice.
The problem is that my knees and hips don't just make a lot of noise. I'm fine with noise. I'm not fine with knees that need to be iced on and off each night due to inflammation that spreads around after a full day of walking up and down stairs to different classes. I shouldn't feel my knee apparently grinding and popping around in its socket any time I rotate my legs inward while lying down.
And like I mentioned in another thread, when I lie on my back, withdrawing my legs to the butterfly position shouldn't be met with resistance from mildly painful hip grinding.
Is this a huge problem? No, not really. My every day life progresses as normal. Is that incredibly fucking annoying when the squat is supposed to IMPROVE my joints, not destabilize them? Yes. Is this even more annoying when no major flaws in my squat form have been identified after posting ten videos over several months time span? Hell yeah.
I've been focused on strengthening the muscles around my knees since I first complained about this problem and here I am. Look, I've read almost everything out there. I have the book. I watch videos. I read articles. And yet here I am once again.
I'll retract my opening question, as if I really believed that, I wouldn't still be squatting after all this time, but what the fuck can I possibly do that I haven't already tried to fix these issues?
I do NOT want to feel like a 70 year old grandpa for the rest of my life.