Objective: Patellofemoral pain syndrome is a common cause of anterior knee pain .This condition may arise from abnormal muscular and biomechanical factors , that alter tracking of the patella within the femoral trachlear notch , contributing to increased patellofemoral contact pressures that result in pain and dysfunction . It was suggested that there was some pathological correlation between s...

Background and purpose: Anterior knee pain is one of the most common symptoms for referral reasons to orthopedic clinics specially knee clinic. This type of pain is one of the most common complaints in adolescents and adults, for various. The most common cause is patellar chondromalasia, but in many cases, no definitive cause is found through clinical examinations, paraclinic and imaging proc...

: Anterior knee pain is pain that occurs in the front and center of the knee and has a high prevalence, which is necessary to study the therapeutic effect of different methods on the pain of this disease. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of treadmill use on pain in patients with anterior knee pain syndrome. : This study was performed on 136 patients with anterior knee pain ...

  Introduction: Concurrent pain in the knee joint and its-related muscles is expectable in patients with sacroiliac dysfunction. However, the association between the severity of knee pain and the level of sacroiliac dysfunction is still unclear. The present study aimed to determine the association between the severity of sacroiliac dysfunction and the severity of pain due to involveme...

Background and purpose: Anterior knee pain (AKP) is one of the most common disorders in young individuals and adults. Pathophysiology of AKP is not clear but chondromalacia patella is considered as the main cause. Different evidences show that physical therapy can alleviate Patellofemoral pain. Despite these therapeutic modalities the treatment of chondromalacia patella is not accurate and most...