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Chris, how are your knees these days? Are they still clicking and creaking?

The knee episode transformed my knees. So they are still creaking, yes, but that is not stopping me using them anymore.

In today's daily dose, we're looking back on our What's Up Docs episode on knees, aren't we,

Chris? That's right, Zandi. We're returning to the wise words of rheumatologist Phil Conahan,

who basically said, you don't have to avoid using your knees just because they give you

trouble from time to time.

So what's comforting is that most studies that have looked at people who run and use their

knees a lot don't show a whole lot of wear and tear in terms of loss of cartilage. So it's actually

quite comforting. It depends on the starter point of your car or your

knee. If your knee is in pretty good structural shape, you can probably keep running on it for years

with no problems at all. If you've had some injuries, some minor damage to the cartilage,

then working, continual loading through it may not be such a good thing.

But most people I see in clinic have weak leg muscles.

So I can't tell what's the problem until they get strong.

If they get strong, then it's worth me investigating further.

I hope that makes sense.

That does.

So that's the starting point is strengthen up the quads.

So can we in general say to people, if you have this sort of low-grade knee pain,

it is safe to do some quad-strengthening exercises?

I think we can always say it's safe to do it because it depends on the exercise,

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