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[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Mecca

I've tried just about everything it doesn't help...I just have screwed up knees, any kind of major physical activity doesn't really hurt at the time but some hours later I have serious soreness and knee pain.

An employee of mine was telling me about gait. (He's a long-distance runner.) Apparently, you should target having your feet hit about 85 times per minute, because that gives you the best contact with the ground with the least leg stress. (I don't know why.) On some of my races, I'll hear people running nearby who land with their feet flat, and I don't know how they avoid injury. Every step lands flat-footed and makes a big clomp, and it seems like it would hurt.

So maybe you could examine your gait and see if perhaps you can put less stress on your knees by changing it a little (assuming you care enough about it).