Physical therapy is the top treatment for runner’s knee (patellofemoral pain syndrome). You may have runner’s knee if you ...

Pain on the outer (or lateral) part of the knee ... physical therapy. If noninvasive treatment doesn’t help, surgical treatment may be necessary. Surgical treatment for patellofemoral pain ...

and physical therapy. Those rare cases that do not respond may require surgery, most often when structural knee problems are involved. As common as patellofemoral stress syndrome is among runners ...

Patellofemoral pain syndrome, which is sometimes called runner’s knee ... therapy, or intervention. “The physician must get a good history to see how this came about, do a physical exam ...

In the healing process, our body attempts to repair those areas by creating “scar tissue,” much like the scar that forms on the skin when you have scraped or banged your knee. In time, we can have a ...