Effective Exercises for Patellofemoral Pain Relief

3. Risk Factors

Adolescents and young adults are the populations who most commonly develop patellofemoral pain syndrome; knee problems in older individuals are usually a result of arthritis. Women are twice as likely to develop PFPS as men. Experts speculate this could be because women h have wider pelvises than men, which increases the angle at which the bones in the knee joint meet. Not surprisingly, women who participate in sports such as track and cross-country running, which put a lot of stress on the knees, are at increased risk for developing PFPS.