Hello "J" - I'm wondering if you can help me. My friend has done something to his knee, plus he has bad muscle and joint pain in that knee. It actually started with the other knee first, but then subsided, and then went to the other knee, where it remains with great pain. You sound like you're familiar with that. What I wanted to know is, does that regiment you follow really help? Plus, this joint pain seemed to have come out of nowhere, just started up one day a few months ago and then grew worse. Now his knee seems to have a "hard" muscle right above the knee cap (a little to the right), like a big knot. he refuses to do ANYTHING, he thinks it'll just go away. So, if you do respond to this, I'm going to show it to him when he comes over. Hey man, thanks! JoeD