Runners Knee

Howdy there,
I am going throught he exact asme thing at the moment. My pain is also right below the kneecap. I have been doing much research on this to figure out what the effects are of training on it and how to treat it. What I found was that if you do train on it you can create scar tissue and that will hurt it more. Also a test i saw spoke of if you can hear creaking in your kneecap" it could be from lack of lubrication or lack of cartilage. I am not a doctor and i am not positive about this, but its what i am basing my treatment off of right now. I find that aleve is the best for me (naproxin sodium) and a nice soak of the legs in a cold bath does the trick. Ide say keep icing and stretch it as much as possible. Also go to a sports doctor to make sure its not something developed from years of running. Good luck
-dan

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If it's below the knee, are you sure it's not tendinitis? Poke your patellar tendon and see if it hurts.

Anyway, tendinitis will definitely get worse if you don't stop running. But I think the general rule is that if it doesn't hurt bad enough to make you change the way you run, then you're fine (sort of). If the pain makes you change your form, then it's time to lay off.

Maybe you can start an extra long taper to give it some rest and still have enough fitness for the marathon