A 24-Year-Old Female with Anterior Knee Pain, Normal Looking Cartilage, and Mild Malalignment

Alexandra H. Aitchison; John P. Fulkerson; Marc Tompkins; Daniel W. Green

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81545-5_16

A 24-Year-Old Female with Anterior Knee Pain, Normal Looking Cartilage, and Mild Malalignment

Alexandra H. Aitchison, John P. Fulkerson, Marc Tompkins, Daniel W. Green

Orthopaedic Surgery

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Even with completely normal looking articular cartilage, patients may experience intractable anterior knee pain. Most of these patients get better with modification of activity, core stability training, and non-operative measures managed by a non-operative specialist. One must be alert to signs of catastrophizing and mental illness. In more extreme cases, when objective cartilage softening is demonstrated, an offloading surgical procedure may be appropriate and can be very effective when all other options have been exhausted.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Patellofemoral Joint
Subtitle of host publication	A Case-Based Approach
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	161-164
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030815455
ISBN (Print)	9783030815448
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81545-5_16
State	Published - Jan 1 2021

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Keywords

Catastrophizing
Chondromalacia
Core stability
Focal overload
Knee pain

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