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Structured Rehabilitation Model for Patients with Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

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Treatments for patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) are as numerous as its potential causes. This is most likely, in part, due to its multifactorial and complex nature.

Patellofemoral pain syndrome represents retropatellar and/or peripatellar pain that is usually exacerbated by activities such as sitting, kneeling, squatting, and stair climbing. The PFPS diagnosis is largely one of exclusion because many other conditions need to be ruled out first. In addition to providing an operational definition for PFPS, this chapter presents a structured rehabilitation model for its treatment based on regional symptom categorization. This categorization will enable rehabilitation clinicians to group patients with similar PFPS etiologies into the same treatment group, thereby helping develop more standardized care and stronger research evidence supporting treatment efficacy.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Sports Medicine, University of Louisville, 550 South Jackson Street, Louisville, KY, USA

    Thomas Rogers & Rumeal Whaley

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Emily Monroe

  3. Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Science, Biruni University, İstanbul, Turkey

    Defne Kaya

  4. Kosair Charities College of Health and Natural Sciences, Spalding University, Louisville, USA

    John Nyland

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and Department of Sports Medicine, Hacettepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Mahmut Nedim Doral

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

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Rogers, T., Whaley, R., Monroe, E., Kaya, D., Nyland, J. (2015). Structured Rehabilitation Model for Patients with Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome. In: Doral, M.N., Karlsson, J. (eds) Sports Injuries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36569-0_286

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