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PatellaMD.com has been designed to be a resource for information and understanding about patellofemoral problems. These problems are common but poorly understood and treated by most orthopaedic surgeons.

Patients with these problems frequently have disabling pain, instability or arthritis.
Lateral release frequently fails or makes the problem worse.
Open surgery has very mixed results.
Patients may end up worse after treatment than before.
Alternative medicine or pain clinics are the result.

Patellofemoral problems are mechanical problems, pressure and instability.
At one end of the spectrum, the patella is too tight, at the other end, too loose.
Successful treatment should return either problem to the middle – neither too tight nor too loose.

PatellaMD.com will explain the problem, the underlying mechanical factors, typical symptoms, appropriate physical examination and x-rays, treatment that works, why treatment fails, and the approach to revision surgery. The key importance of lateral side stability will be explained and documented. There will be correlating x-rays, arthroscopic and surgical pictures.

I hope you will gain an understanding of patellofemoral problems from the information presented here. I believe there are good solutions to these problems. Thank you for visiting patellaMD. com.

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