REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE: JUMPER’S KNEE IN THE RECREATIONAL BADMINTON COMMUNITY

Abstract

Patellar Tendinopathy also known as Jumper’s knee is a common condition in players which includes jumping activities and sports such as Badminton, Volleyball, Basketball, Skiing and this condition somewhere leads to obstruct the daily lifestyle apart from performance in the game. This literature review is an attempt to accumulate the studies that are focusing on jumper’s knee and understand the pattern and trends. Databases such as Pubmed, Google scholar, Web of science were searched with keywords like ‘Anterior knee pain’ ‘Patellar Tendinopathy’ ‘Jumper’s knee’ with combination to comorbidities such as risk factor. The prominence was on researches that focused on Patellar Tendinopathy