Anterior Knee Pain *Don’t forget

potential
Differential Diagnosis referred pain
(Atraumatic conditions in adults) from the hip,
lumbar spine or
other areas*

Quads
Tendinopathy Patellofemoral
Pain/ OA
Prepatellar
Bursitis
Medial
Lateral Plica
Meniscal Syndrome
Pathology/ OA
Medial Meniscal
Pathology/ OA
Iliotibial Band
Syndrome Pes Anserine
Bursitis

Patellar Tibial Plateau

Infrapatellar Fat Tendinopathy Stress
Pad Syndrome Fractures can
present here
too
 Posterior Knee Pain
Differential Diagnosis
(Common conditions in adults)

Baker’s Cyst Semimembranosus

Tendinopathy
Biceps Femoris
Tendinopathy

LATERAL MEDIAL

Popliteal Medial
Tendinopathy Meniscus Injury
or Muscle (Posterior
Injury Horn)
or
Consider Osteoarthritis
Posterolateral
Corner in *Neural and
traumatic Vascular conditions
injuries can refer pain into
the posterior knee as
especially
can the Lumbar
ACL/ PCL spine*