Odd knee cap feeling/movement on down-stroke

andyeb

I've been doing a lot of work on the turbo recently, owing to continued poor weather conditions here in the UK.

Been doing a lot of work around threshold and am now moving on to some short max-effort sprints.

Everything has been going fine except I'm now experiencing an odd sensation in my left knee on the down power stroke - it's not pain, it just feels, well odd. As if the knee cap is moving around on each stroke.

Rather than wait for it to start hurting, I asked my GP to take a look and she said everything looks fine but would refer me for physio if it starts getting painful.

Does anyone know what this might be? Does it have a name that I can google and find remedial stretches or exercises that might help? I'm keen not to wait until it turns into an injury.

sloppyschleckonds

ITBS Band

alihisgreat

Two things you can do:

1) stretching - do it regularly and properly - I found that adding proper hip flexor stretching pretty much eliminated my ITB and patellar issues. Make sure you work on the whole body though.

2) leg strength/stability work - eg. my physio told me to do 5-10 single leg chair squats every day. There are alternative exercises such as lunges that can be done too.

and maybe a third option is to look at bike fit... but it sounds like poor knee stability is your problem.