Do hip muscle weakness and dynamic knee valgus matter for the clinical evaluation and decision-making process in patients with patellofemoral pain?
Nayra Deise Dos Anjos Rabelo, Paulo Roberto Garcia Lucareli
PMID 29157738WHAT IT FOUND
No primary methods or results are reported.
This narrative review/commentary does not provide a new finding to change practice.
What this paper is
This is a narrative review/commentary about whether hip muscle weakness and dynamic knee valgus matter in patellofemoral pain. It discusses previous studies and argues that the evidence is not strong enough to base evaluation or treatment decisions on those factors, but it reports no methods, no participants and no original results, so there is no new finding to act on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this review as evidence that hip muscle weakness or dynamic knee valgus causes patellofemoral pain or that treating them will change symptoms. It reports no primary methods or results.