Objective To study the long-term outcome of arthroscopy in patients with chronic patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS), the authors ... an arthroscopy group (N=28), treated with knee arthroscopy and an ...

function” for patellofemoral pain syndrom (PFPS ... There is moderate evidence for no additive effectiveness of knee braces to exercise therapy on pain (effect sizes (ES) varied from −0.14 to 0.04) ...

But patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome will often need to lose weight before they can undergo surgery for knee pain.