BLOG: Why a more specific diagnosis matters for patellofemoral syndrome

“There are several causes of the same thing,” Aristotle wrote in Metaphysics. Few areas of orthopedics illustrate Aristotle’s enduring observation more clearly than the patellofemoral joint.“Patellofemoral syndrome” is often used as a diagnosis, yet it describes little more than the anatomic region in which symptoms manifest. Robert B. Leb, MD, and John P. Fulkerson,