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Am I wrong? I survey some recent patellofemoral pain science in search of embarrassment

By Paul Ingraham | Published: July 6, 2010
Recently a reader wrote to me to point out that, in his opinion, recent scientific evidence has begun to support the “conventional wisdom” about chronic anterior knee pain (a.k.a. patellofemoral pain syndrome, or PFPS). That would make my e-book on the topic look bad. I pretty much roll my eyes at the conventional wisdom from [...]
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Are elliptical machines okay for knees with patellofemoral pain syndrome?

By Paul Ingraham | Published: April 6, 2010
My patellofemoral pain syndrome tutorial has been out “in the wild” for a few years now, and questions from readers have been slowing down to a trickle (because the tutorial now has answers to just about anything else you could possibly want to know about that condition). But a question about elliptical machines kept coming, [...]
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