Advice on Knee Pain

After every run within 20 minutes

Ice Ice baby

Also insure you are stretching your IT band with dynamic stretches before your run and static stretches after.

Same for your glutes and hams which will also pull your IT tight.

If it starts to get worse not better, get assessed by a registered athletic therapist or physiotherapist, or advanced diagnostics such as X-Ray or other imaging. Knee is serious business.

Good luck, I have been dealing with this for the last 2 months, I had recently upped my exercise too, and It MAY have been too much too quickly-- OR I had an old injury flare up because of the additional exercise. So I haven't been able to do much, but I started physical therapy this week, and I think it will help. Otherwise I am going to need surgery. I had an MRI and I have a slight tear in my meniscus. It's pretty common.

So, I haven't been able to use my legs much, and have had to rely on upper body stuff. So much harder to get cardio:( But it's possible (thing like punches).

I would lay off running and aerobics-- especially if there was some clicking noise, and talk to your doctor.

You may need to lay off the high impact cardio on the days in between your runs. There's a lot of stress on your knees if you're doing high impact workouts every day. You're better off doing something like biking or swimming where you aren't stressing your joints on the days in you aren't running.

Sorry, I don't have any advice on the knee injury itself. So far, mine have been behaving.

Thanks for the posts.

Yes, I'm new to running (just three weeks in) but doing the aerobics with no problems for four months.

Yes, I might of tried to hard.

Yes, I do stretches after my run and only start running after a gentle warm up walk for 5 minutes. I maybe I am not doing the right sort or the right length.

I know nothing about muscle groups, I will have to learn.

I am doing no further exercise until I am in no pain and seen a doctor.

This being the case the usual advice is to stop running until the pain is gone.

Start back up slowly, reduced distance and frequency at first.

If the pain returns, stop at once and get assessed.

Most of the time this is the result of not giving your body time to adapt.

If the pain is bad, sharp, shooting, if you hear grating noises from the knee cap, get it checked out for sure.

FYI for other knee pain sufferers...I had similar knee pain when running. I posted here and someone said my hips were not strong enough. Sure enough, now that I've worked on the muscles in my hips, my knees no longer hurt.