jumpers knee

Patellar tendonitis

Definition

 

Patellar Tendinitis

 

Epidemiology

 

Most common in athletes

- especially if involved in running, jumping and kicking

- over use injury

 

Basketball players

 

Aetiology

 

Chronic overload v inferior patella impingement

 

Schmidt et al Am J Sports Med

- dynamic MRI in patients with jumper's knee v controls

- no evidence of impingemnt