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The term ‘anterior knee pain’ includes all pain-related problems of the anterior portion of the knee, and covers terms such as chondromalacia patella, patellofemoral arthralgia, patellar pain, patellar pain syndrome, and patellofemoral pain. Therefore, after excluding anterior knee pain resulting from intra-articular pathologies, patellar tendinopathy, peripatellar bursitis, the plica syndrome, Sinding Larsen’s and Osgood Schlatter’s lesions, and other rarely occurring conditions, the remaining patients with a clinical presentation of anterior knee pain can be diagnosed with patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS). All such patients experience pain, but patients also report other symptoms, and it is therefore appropriate to talk of PFPS.
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Maffulli, N. (2001). Anterior Knee Pain: An Overview of Management Options. In: Puddu, G., Giombini, A., Selvanetti, A. (eds) Rehabilitation of Sports Injuries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04369-1_12
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