Condition programme · Patellar tendinopathy

Patellar Tendon Recovery

The full five-stage programme for pain just below the kneecap — from calming an angry tendon to jumping and changing direction on it again.

Read this if: your pain is a specific sore point just below the kneecap, worse with jumping, squatting, stairs and after sitting, and it has built up over weeks or months. This is not a diagnosis — if that does not describe your pain, start with the knee baseline or get assessed.

Written by Joseph Reynolds, private MSK physiotherapist · HCPC & CSP registered

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Before anything else — get urgent help if any of these apply. New problems controlling your bladder or bowels, or numbness around your bottom or genitals. New weakness or numbness in both limbs. Chest pain, severe breathlessness, or pain into your jaw or left arm. A sudden severe headache unlike any you have had, slurred speech or facial drooping. A hot, red, very swollen joint with a fever. After an injury: an obvious change in shape, or being unable to use the limb at all.

Call 999 or go to A&E. Do not wait for an appointment, and do not start any exercise programme.

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