The only way to get rid of your running-related knee pain is to avoid heel striking (landing heel-first), instead of landing with a forefoot strike (landing on the balls of your foot). In the research on impact mechanics, the connection between heel strike running and knee injury is that there’s significantly more loading exerted on the knee because the knee-joint is completely unbent and stiff at heel strike, which was found to result in poor impact absorption in the entire leg. Read more here!
