Validity of Sonoelastography in Diagnosis of Patellar Tendinopathy

Volume 20 No 6 (2022)

Nadia Talaat Abdelhai Mahmoud, Manal Farouk Altohamy, Farida Mohamed Elfawal, Ahmed Mohamed Alsowey

DOI: 10.14704/nq.2022.20.6.NQ22749

Abstract

Background: Patellar tendinopathy is an overuse disorder that is commonly presented as anterior knee pain. It prevents 30% of the affected athletes from participating sports for 6 months.Sonoelastography is a noninvasive method of estimating tissue elasticity by analyzing the ultrasonic radiofrequency signals produced by standard ultrasound equipment.

Keywords

patellar tendinopathy , sonoelastography and patellar tendon

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