Background & Aims: Chondromalacia patella is one of the chronic dysfunctions of the patella femoral joint which is the most common anterior knee syndrome especially among the youth. Muscle weakness and proprioception deficit are the subsequent problems of this dysfunction. Thus, the aim of this study was the investigation and comparison of the effects of vibration training and resistive exercis...

Figure 2: Correlation of arthroscopic grade with T1ρ MRI. 14 arthroscopic observations of chondromalacia were made among 6 patients. Mean compartment T1ρ was abnormal in all cases of grade 3 and 4 chondromalacia, but mixed for grades 1 and 2. ROI analysis of the individual patients resolves the inconsistency among grades 1 and 2, for which heterogeneous and focally increased T1ρ was observed an...

Background: Tibial tuberosity-trochlear groove distance (TT-TGD) measurements play a decisive role in evaluatingpatellofemoral joint disorders. However, the prevalence of pathological TT-TGD among patients with patellofemoralpain remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to compare the size of TT-TGD among patients with patellofemoralpain syndrome (PFPS) and those with no history of patell...

The patellofemoral joint, the anterior compartment of knee, undergoes earliest degenerative changes throughout life and joint morphology is great importance in appearance pain knee chondromalacia patella. Chondromalacia patella a progressive disease with change normal structure, formation minor or major defects cartilage itself represents significant socioeconomic problem because it occurs youn...

The management of patellae with a severe bony deficiency during revision total knee arthroplasty is a challenging problem. However, using a technique of augmentation with transcortical wiring of an onlay-type prosthesis allowed the authors to revise a deficient patellae successfully. After making the decision to revise the existing patellar component, the procedure was found to be technically s...

BACKGROUND Chondromalacia, lateral patellar compression syndrome and osteoarthritis are common patellofemoral joint disorders leading to functional and/or structural disturbances in articular surfaces. The objective of the study was to evaluate their impact on joint motion quality via the vibroacoustic signal generated during joint movement analysis. METHODS Seventy-three patients (30 with ch...

OBJECTIVES 1) To determine the number of primary care clinic visits attributable to musculoskeletal pain (MSP) in children >/=3 and <15 years of age. 2) To describe the demographic characteristics of this population assessed for limb/back pain. 3) To characterize the etiology of musculoskeletal pain in an urban general pediatric clinic in Madrid, Spain. METHODS Prospective evaluation of 1000 ...