2006 Jumpers Knee eMedicine Sports

Description: Blazina et al first used the term jumper's knee in 1973 to describe an insertional tendinopathy seen in skeletally mature athletes. Jumper's knee usually affects the attachment of the patellar tendon to the inferior patellar pole. The definition was subsequently widened to include tendinopathy of the attachment of the quadriceps tendon to the superior patellar pole or tendinopathy of the attachment of the patellar tendon to the anterior tuberosity of the tibia. The term jumper's knee implies functional stress overload due to jumping.
Synonyms and related keywords: jumper's knee, patellar tendinitis, patellar tendinosis, patellar tendinopathy, patellar apicitis, quadriceps tendinitis, infrapatellar tendinopathy
Hyman, Malanga & Alladin 2006 Updated 2010