I've been browsing the archive reading up on people's knee injury stories, but I have a question that was not answered in any of the posts I found. First just a quick background. I raced on the road for 5 years before getting married and having a child. Now after 6 years basically off the bike, I've freed up some time in my schedule to get back into riding. In the fall I started to ride a couple times a week without any problems. Then in January, I overdid it and caused some inflamation which a PT has diagnosed as PFP. I knew better than to continue until the pain was acute, and managed to avoid severe inflamation or pain, but the classic symptoms of pain when descending stairs and mild burning on the inside of the patella were present. Specifically, the PT found that my glute is weak, allowing my knee to mis-allign under load, and cause the irritation. I have a strength and stretch routine, that I do 3 X/wk, and ride low resistance on the rollers 3 X/wk. I have not experienced any significant change in the condition of my knee after a couple weeks. What I want to know is at what point does the inflamation inhibit recovery? Do I need to completely stop everything until there is NO pain? This injury has never caused pain worse than a 3 on a 1-10 scale, so I've been cautious but not exclusionary about activity and rehab. Anybody want to comment? Thanks very much. Noah