Patellar malalignment places excess stress ... with symptomatic knee OA randomly selected from the Boston Osteoarthritis of the Knee Study (a natural history study of symptomatic knee OA); 75% ...

Background Patellofemoral pain and osteoarthritis are prevalent and associated with substantial pain and functional impairments. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are recommended for research ...

An 84-year-old female patient, while turning in bed at night, suffered shooting pains and knee locking in the right knee with apparent patella luxation, which made a loud bang when reduced by the ...

The patellofemoral articulation is a common ... knee arthroplasty and to correlate these findings with the observed osteoarthritis on the undersurface of the patella.

injury is an important risk factor for development of knee osteoarthritis (OA). To identify those ACL injured patients at increased risk for knee OA, it is necessary to understand risk factors for OA.

However, people who have arthritis appear more likely to be in ... meaning it grows in the tendon of a muscle, just like the kneecap or patella. Dr Michael Berthaume and colleagues at Imperial's ...

Our study results possibly implicate abnormal muscle fiber orientation as being associated with patellofemoral arthritis.