A Primer explaining the importance of the patella in the knee.
The patella is the kneecap - the bone at the front of the knee. It is unusual in being a bone within a tendon - the tendon of the quadriceps muscle that spans the region from the hip to the shinbone. Any factor affecting the muscle-tendon complex is likely to trigger symptoms around the patella.
Submitted by skibum9 on January 5, 2008 - 2:13am