I've apparently always had poor tracking. I used to run, alot, twice a day. In the process I really shredded my cartilage under my patella. I still have my trochlear cartilage, which is the cartilage on the leg bone.

Funny thing is that cartilage has no nerves, but bones have a lot of nerves. So I really didn't know that I was damaging my knees so much running until I got some pretty major tendinitis in my quad and went in for an MRI last week. So I found out that this is going on.

So there isn't TOO much that I can do for myself in terms of healing the cartilage. However I want to bulk up my legs biking in preparation for what might be an extended rehab after surgery. The bigger my legs the easier it will be.

So that's what this is all about. Until recently I've always thought that braces that are supposed to keep you knee in line are bull****, especially for running, since the mechanics of your knees must absorb more than 10x your body weight. What piece of cloth is going to counter that force- and if it did it would break your kneecap.

However for cycling it seems like there isn't as much force being driven through the knee. Just more repetitive motion (at 100rpm). So with less flex, maybe there's more of a chance to stabilize the knee.

The above brace that I mentioned has the benefit of cutting off the force of your quad to your kneecap by pinching the tendon that connects the quad to the knee. However I like the idea of the J brace.

Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for reading my post!