Physical Therapy for Patellofemoral Pain: A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trial (Crossley et al., 2002) on “Papers I Reread”, a list by Priya Nair on TheLysts.
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Year
2002
Main topic
PFJ pain rehab trial
Key takeaway
A structured programme of quad retraining, taping, manual therapy and home exercise beats placebo for PFJ pain.
Why it matters
Still one of the cleanest RCTs backing a multimodal physio approach for anterior knee misery.
My take
If your PFJ plan is just ‘rest and ibuprofen’, but you call yourself a knee nerd, I’m side-eyeing you from Peckham Rye, fight me.
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