Table 1

Common Pathologies Leading to Anterior Knee Pain (AKP)*

Articular Cartilage Injury
Bone Tumors
Chondromalacia Patellae

Hoffa's Disease
Iliotibial (IT) Band Syndrome
Loose Bodies

Neuromas
Osgood-Schlatter Disease
Osteochondritis Dissecans

Patellar Instability/Subluxation
Patellar Stress Fracture
Patellar Tendinopathy

Patellofemoral Arthritis
Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
Pes Anserine Bursitis

Plica Synovialis
Prepatellar Bursitis
Previous Surgery

Quadriceps Tendinopathy
Referred Pain from Lumbar Spine or Hip Joint Pathology
Saphenous Neuritis

Sinding-Larsen-Johansson Syndrome
Symptomatic Bipartite Patella


* Based on research presented by S. Dixit 2007, P. Brukner 2002, R.H. Miller 1998, J.P. Fulkerson 2000, W.E. Prentice 2001, T.A. Peters 2000, R. Khaund 2005, A. Haim 2006

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