Etiopathogenic Bases and Therapeutic Implications -- Background: Patellofemoral Malalignment versus Tissue Homeostasis -- Pathogenesis of Anterior Knee Pain and Patellar Instability in the Active Young -- Neuroanatomical Bases for Anterior Knee Pain in the Young Patient: “Neural Model” -- Biomechanical Bases for Anterior Knee Pain and Patellar Instability in the Young Patient -- Anatomy of Patellar Dislocation -- Evaluation of the Patient with Anterior Knee Pain and Patellar Instability -- Uncommon Causes of Anterior Knee Pain -- Risk Factors and Prevention of Anterior Knee Pain -- Conservative Treatment of Athletes with Anterior Knee Pain -- Conservative Management of Anterior Knee Pain: The McConnell Program -- Skeletal Malalignment and Anterior Knee Pain: Rationale, Diagnosis, and Management -- Treatment of Symptomatic Deep Cartilage Defects of the Patella and Trochlea with and without Patellofemoral Malalignment: Basic Science and Treatment -- Autologous Periosteum Transplantation to Treat Full-Thickness Patellar Cartilage Defects Associated with Severe Anterior Knee Pain -- Patella Plica Syndrome -- Patellar Tendinopathy: Where Does the Pain Come From? -- Patellar Tendinopathy: The Science Behind Treatment -- Prevention of Anterior Knee Pain after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction -- Lysis of Pretibial Patellar Tendon Adhesions (Anterior Interval Release) to Treat Anterior Knee Pain after ACL Reconstruction -- Donor-Site Morbidity after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Using Autografts -- Clinical Cases Commented -- Complicated Case Studies -- Failure of Patellofemoral Surgery: Analysis of Clinical Cases -- Arthrofibrosis and Patella Infera -- Neuromatous Knee Pain: Evaluation and Management -- Epilogue.

Anterior knee pain and patellar instability is the most common pathology of the knee. Nevertheless, it is the most neglected, the least known and the most problematic. Our knowledge of its etiopathogeny is also limited, with the consequence that its treatment is of the most complex among the different pathologies of the knee. With contributions from orthopedic surgeons, physiotherapists, radiologists, biologists, pathologists, bioengineers, and plastic surgeons, this multidisciplinary book reviews the diagnosis and management of anterior knee pain and patellar instability in an eminently clinical and practical manner. The book reviews the therapeutic alternatives, both surgical and non-surgical, emphasizing the considerable importance of minimal intervention and non-surgical methods. Similarly, anterior knee pain following ACL reconstruction is covered in detail. Complex clinical cases are also discussed at length with the use of numerous illustrations, with each case providing the key information to assist diagnosis. Anterior Knee Pain and Patellar Instability has been written for orthopedic surgeons, specialists in sports medicine and physiotherapists and fills an important gap in the literature of pathology of the extensor mechanism of the knee. It is an authoritative reference on one of the most problematic entities current in pathology of the knee.