NOS88,

Forgot to mention.

With you "Ivory Tower" (chuckle) connections you might want to try to locate a copy of "Knee Ligament Rehabilitation Edited by Robert P. Engle" in one of the medical libraries.

I purchased my copy from Amazon dot come back around 1993. The book was originally written around ACL repairs and rehab but it is a good guide on how to deal with other knee problems. So once the orthopedic doc tells you what the problem is one of these rehab books would make a good guide in how to deal with it and your normal activities such as bike riding. With some knee injuries and repairs the rehab processing becomes a life long ongoing thing if you want to stay mobile and relatively pain free. That was not explained to me after the original 1977 ACL repair surgery. One of those things where had I known then what I know now.

E. Ogre