In reply to A P E Knott: Thanks for sharing your knee probs and it's good to hear you're running still! Don't worry, I'm doing rehab! Didn't want advice on this as I know that there's several medical/surgical specialist lifetime's worth of info on human knees! Much of it provides for years of debating between surgeons,physios etc.My previous level of knowledge was as a veterinary surgeon,but it's deepening by the minute!In my reply to Dominion you'll see a bit about what my own prob. is. I could write several pages just on patellofemoral joint probs., but I want to try to spare everyone from that! My other half runs and he's sick of my knee!
I'm particularly interested in the longterm findings of fellrunners with patellofemoral chondral defects.It's actually more common in females - forgot to say I was! -but as we're a smaller population to survey,i'm interested in bloke's knees too - I don't want to be sexist! Thanks again.By the way, I'm not going to get running again until I've had a gait analysis and got a proper pair of orthotics- been using off the shelf ones/support shoes for a while.