Open AccessAnterior Knee Pain in the Active and Athletic Adolescent
Author(s) -
Michelle L. Gorman McNerney,
Elizabeth A. Arendt
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
current sports medicine reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.424
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1537-8918
pISSN - 1537-890X
DOI - 10.1249/jsr.0000000000000013
Subject(s) - medicine , pain medicine , sports medicine , physical therapy , anterior knee pain , physical medicine and rehabilitation , knee pain , athletes , return to sport , anesthesiology , alternative medicine , surgery , osteoarthritis , anesthesia , patella , pathology
Anterior knee pain (or patellofemoral pain) continues to be a source of frustration and confusion among clinicians. There is wide variation in symptom history, physical exam findings, imaging, and treatment that often confounds the use of any straightforward algorithm or decision tree. This review aims to provide an approach that partners the adolescent athlete with clinician and an experienced physiotherapist. This team approach uses available evidence to develop a treatment program that is specific to the adolescent's symptoms, body movement patterns, and activity demands.