Engaging Patient Education in Pain Management

Patellofemoral pain can affect anyone at any age, which mean you're likely to come across it in your clinical career. What is best practice in managing patellofemoral pain?

Today, Dr Brad Neal (Queen Mary University of London) walks us through how to apply the best research to your practice.

Dr Neal has worked for over a decade in elite sport, private and public health care settings as a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist. His PhD work in biomechanics has helped guide understanding of how to manage patellofemoral pain.

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RESOURCES

Best practice guide for patellofemoral pain: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39401870/

Effects of treatment for patellofemoral pain - systematic review with meta-analysis: https://www.jospt.org/doi/full/10.2519/jospt.2022.11359

Patellofemoral pain 2019 clinical practice guideline: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2019.0302