aetiology of knee pain by age group
Last reviewed 01/2018
The possible causes of knee pain according to the age group includes:
- children and adolescents
- patellar subluxation
- Osgood-Schlatter's disease and Sinding-Larsen-Johansson syndrome
- jumper's knee (patellar tendonitis)
- referred pain: slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- osteochondritis dissecans
- hypermobility syndrome
- inflammatory conditions
- tumors
- adults
- patellofemoral pain syndrome
- trauma: anterior cruciate, medial collateral, lateral collateral ligamentous sprains, meniscal tear
- inflammatory arthropathy: rheumatoid arthritis, Reiter's syndrome
- septic arthritis
- medial plica syndrome
- joint hypermobility syndrome
- referred pain from hip conditions
- bursitis
- older adults
- osteoarthritis
- Baker's cyst
- crystal-induced inflammatory arthropathy: gout, pseudogout
- referred pain from OA hip
- inflammatory arthropathies (1,2)
Reference:
- 1. Gilchrist I. Anterior knee pain. Arthritis Research UK 2004
- 2. Calmbach WL, Hutchens M. Evaluation of patients presenting with knee pain: Part II. Differential diagnosis. Am Fam Physician. 2003;68(5):917-22