Can glucose chondroitin help runners knee or offer knee pain relief? Several studies have been done to prove or disprove this notion, with the largest one not being released until this fall so until then we must rely on the running world. Which still seems to be split. Ask one hundred runners and you'll get anything from a straight up no, to some, while others swear they have been healed. There is no down side to glucosamine. It's practically harmless. Glucosamine is more effective than its counter part chondroitin, and much cheaper. There seems to have been a significant rise in the use of glucosamine and chondroitin combined in the last five years, but it can't be predicted if that's the success of the supplements or the recall of drugs like Vioxx. Vioxx is a prescription anti-inflammatory that was recalled. It has also been proven that glucosamine combined with cat's claw can greatly offer knee pain relief and help rebuild the joint within a shorter amount of tim...