The quality of life of patients with patellofemoral pain – a systematic review

Keywords:

Patellofemoral pain syndrome ; anterior knee pain ; chondromalacia patellae ; quality of life ; quality adjusted life years


Published online: Apr 16 2021

Levi Reijnders, Sebastiaan A.W. van de Groes

From the Department of Orthopedics, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to perform a systematic review of literature to assess the quality of life of patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome

A systematic review was performed in Pubmed ; Cochrane ; Embase ; Web of science and were searched until January 2018. There was no limit regarding the year of publication. The review was limited to English, Dutch and German articles.

Fifteen articles met the inclusion criteria. Seven articles reported the SF-36 and three articles reported the KOOS. Both the SF-36 and the KOOS showed lower quality of life of patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome.

There are indications that patellofemoral pain syn- drome influences the quality of life equal to serious medical conditions and sometimes even osteoarthritis. Because it afflicts moslty young people it may have a huge impact on their lifes. More research is needed, in particular which is focus on the quality of life.

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Dec 2020.

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