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Adolescent knee pain management.
The child or adolescent who presents with a painful knee is a routine challenge for most primary care providers. Knee pain is one of the most common reasons for referral from our local primary care providers to the orthopedic and sports medicine specialist. Complaints may be acute or long-standing, and making a diagnosis that responds to treatment for the patient with long-standing knee pain ma...
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Volume 86, Number 6 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 569 A 14-year-old girl presented with several weeks of intermittent right knee pain. The pain worsened after activity and improved with rest. She had not tried any over-the-counter analgesics. She played volleyball, but not around the time the pain began. Physical examination revealed a normalappearing right knee. There was no varus...
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General description: The Anterior Knee Pain Scale (AKPS) – sometimes called the Kujala Scale (Kujala et al 1993) is a 13-item knee-specific self-report questionnaire. It documents response to six activities thought to be associated specifically with anterior knee pain syndrome (walking, running, jumping, climbing stairs, squatting, and sitting for prolonged periods with knees bent), as well as ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: MedEdPORTAL
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2374-8265
DOI: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.9078