
#406 Kneedful Things: Knee Pain 201 with Dr. Ted Parks
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Effects of a Wider Pelvis on Patello Thermal Pain
The Q angle stands for the quadriceps angle. The along axis of the femur is not collinear with the long axis of the axis of the tibia. And the wider your pelvis is, the more that angle is going to be. Being a female puts them at higher risk for mal tracking and that element of patello thermal or anterior knee pain.
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