Execution:
- The patient rates his/her pain on a scale from 0-10
- The patient is instructed to perform a single-leg squat with the knee in 60° of flexion and the trunk slightly forward
- The patient holds this position for 45 seconds and may hold on to a wall with one hand for balance if necessary
Outcome: Participants with patellofemoral pain report pain after the test, while healthy controls do not
| Study | Reliability | Sn | Sp | LR+ | LR- |
| Rathleff et al. (2022) | NA | 82 | 89 | 7.6 | 0.2 |
| Comment: The anterior knee pain provocation test is a useful test to assess pain and sporting function. An important side note is that the test is not to be used as a diagnostic tool as it is not able to discriminate between other common types of anterior knee pain (like for example osgood-schlatter, patellar tendinopathy or sinding larsen johansson) as they also produce pain on a flexed and loaded knee. Rather, the test can give a very quick insight into the sporting and functional capacity of the athlete as it was associated with the KOOS scores and therefore this test may be useful to track changes throughout rehabilitation | |||||
