Knee pain is a real bummer. It can stop you from training. So why don't you prevent it in the first place?
Simple ways to prevent knee pain
1. Release you Iliotibial (IT) Band (photo above)
Your IT band is found at the side (outside) of your thigh. It's along your pant seam from your pelvis to your knee. It becomes very tight from activities that involve running and cycling. So triathletes you have to work the hardest at releasing it.
To release it get a tennis ball/trigger ball/foam roll and place it along the IT band at a spot that hurts (that's the spot along the band that's tight) and stay there till the pain subsides then move to another painful spot along it.
2. Strengthen the muscles around your knee
These would be your quads and hamstrings. Strengthening your buttock muscles help too.
For your quads and gluts, you could do half squats, controlled step ups and downs or the leg press machine at the gym.
For your hamstrings you could do leg curls at the gym or simply with resistance bands, ankle weights or pulleys.
Talk to your physiotherapist more about this.
