From NPR: "Exercise Studies Find Good News For the Knees"

Great article.The human body is wonderfully engineered.

It made me really happy to hear it...I get a lot of grief from people saying "Oh you're going to end up with arthritis!" when I say I run. When I worked for the YMCA we preached the "Move it or loose it" mantra to our arthritis and Silver Sneakers participants, it's nice to know there's some more scientific background to it.

Me, however, I'm probably signed up for the arthritis/ hip replacement special, having already broken the thing at 23. Bum.

Its like my 80 something year old Grandma in law told me last christmas time, Her old grandma had arthritis and the common thought in the early 1900s and before was not to move, she ended up basically stuck in a chair for 4-5 years before passing. Now my G-I-L has bad arthritis but with some minimum medication and regular exercise classes (aqua aerobics at the Y 2-3 days a week) she is still able to go for walks etc with the family, even if for only a short distance, as well as get up and travel to various places to visit.

It is a great thing

My dads drive to continue running (or the strange race walk form he has) is the only thing that has kept him from being wheelchair bound by degenerative arthritis.

I've had arthritis in my knees for 10+ years now. Quit playing basketball probably 5 years ago because of it and basically did nothing until two years ago when I started triathlon training. I don't remember a time when my knees feel better than they do now, and I'm one week out from IMWI.

Regular exercise has been very good to my knees. Even running.