I have suffered the above for about two months now. I stopped running and did some quad strengthening exersizes. I recently visited my long term physio who is great, but he advised me not to stop running and that I should keep the area moving, stop the risk of further atrophy and accompany the running with stretches, lunges and other strengthening exersizes. When I run I have to say I dont really feel the knee, but when I am sitting down I notice it continues to be very tender at he bottom of the knee cap and I keep wondering whether to continue running is providing further aggrevation to it? Unfortunately I can only visit my physio 3 weekly at present. Anyone got any thoughts?