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It's really interesting to hear how variable everyone's knee problems are and how one person's cause seems to be another persons remedy.
I dislocated my knee playing football years ago and had nothing nothing but problems. It would ache in the winter and click almost continually. If I spent all day walking, whether just going round town shopping, or more strenuous activities like running or hiking It would always swell up by the evening. When I saw a specialist I was told that there was a cyst on the knee but that surgery wouldn't do anything and I wasn't given any options with regards to physio, just told basically it's something you're going to have to deal with.
When I moved to London a couple of years ago I started cycling again and the transformation has been incredible, this winter I've had no problems at all, it hardly clicks and never swells up. Just got back from holiday in Sicily where me and the missus hiked up an active volcano (3 hours up and 2 back down). After something like that my knee would have usually ballooned in the evening but nothing at all, so for now at least riding seems to have sorted my problems out.