Hoffa’s Fat Pad Syndrome vs. Patellofemoral Pain | Expert Physio Guide

In this tutorial, we use our 3D anatomy model to help explain the key differences between Hoffa's Pain Syndrome and Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome, to aid your clinical assessment and clinical reasoning.
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[@krislinhein1127]

Very informative and clear explanation! Thank you for all the content!!

[@ClinicalPhysio]

You’re very welcome! Thank you for watching!

[@nicholaslarmour5647]

These are great videos for helping me start studying 👍 right to the point and densen yet organized information, cheers!

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Glad you like them! Thank you for your kind words!

[@tvdvlad]

briefly and clearly 👍

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Thank you I’m glad it helped!

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[@raducanuandrei2671]

Thank you so much for this content, really helpful

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Thank you so much for the watching!

[@kuenwoolee1590]

great! simple and easy.

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Thank you so much

[@rubaalbarghouthi]

Many thanks for this interesting information 👍

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@mohamad5722]

Tnx bro It was the best and clearest diffrentiation in this topic Appreciate it❤

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Most welcome 😊 thank you for watching!

[@susiemaiz]

This beautifully done! My son was diagnosed with both so we found it really confusing. Thank you for helping us clear up some understanding of the knees!!!

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much for your kind words and wishing your son all the best 🙏🏼

[@rikenpatel4659]

Sir very nice explanation 🎉

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Thank you!

[@dazzakelly2024]

Great video thanks, Ive had MRI indicating I have a fat pad impingement in left knee, and quadricep tendonitis in same knee, its depressing! What i find weird is that I can go on bike as it starts to aggravate after about 20 mins or its under a heavy load, yet I can go for walks, jog on a treadmill and use an Arc Trainer in gym without issues??

[@chrispineda9306]

Always amazing graphics, very helpful to fully understand. What app/program do you use?

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Thank you so much! It’s our own app that we had made for us by developers so we could do teaching with it 😊

[@nickk8563]

Very nicely explained with the right details...I got the fat pad irritation after my lateral meniscus repair surgery :(

[@ClinicalPhysio]

So sorry to hear this but hope you are doing well now

[@ronman2014]

Excellent explanation and illustration. I now know that what I have is a Hoffa's fat pad situation. Now I just have to figure out what to do about it.

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Thank you for watching! Wishing you all the very best

[@seanhannon2379]

Very informative, thanks. What is the possibility of having both of these at the same time from an overuse injury (cycling)? I have swelling above the patella and have pain with flexion, while also having pain below the patella with full extension. I find that to have the least amount of pain at about 25°. I've had this for over a year now and I've followed several plans from physios without correction unfortunately...

[@audreydugan9668]

Thank you ! That was clear and helped a lot, even sleeping my knee likes to be a little bent, not straight (auchie) very cool Thanks

[@ClinicalPhysio]

You’re most welcome! Thank you so much for watching 🙏🏼

[@Ryan-lt2nh]

Thank you

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Welcome! Thank you for watching!

[@Ryan-lt2nh]

@@ClinicalPhysio Took what i learned here to the orthopedic who confirmed that it was a patellafemoral truama injury by looking closer at the MRI. So really do appreciate it. Now we have a plan!

[@jayantmishra6966]

can standing too long with knee slighlty hyper-extended could causs hoffa fat pad syndrome, also high likely is it to show up in MRI

[@marsee965]

Soo do we not try to fully extend the knee if we suspect fat impingement? Great video, thanks

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Great question! I would naturally do it for testing from a diagnostic capacity, but then perhaps you may spend a small period of time offloading extension (but making sure the patient knows that completely stopping extension could have an impact on stiffness)

[@marsee965]

@@ClinicalPhysio exactly what I thought m, I have been dealing with this for over 3 months , I hurt me knee bu suddenly stepping out of bed to a deep squat to grab something on the floor and this seems to be my pain; drs say chondromalacia patelle but honestly I think the fat is also a culprit, when I activate my hamsting to do the leg lift as i point my toes to the roof there is a little to hesitation to fully extend my knee, but I don’t want to end un with less ROM compared to my other knee soo I push myself; just wasn’t sure if I am irritating further by forcing it past discomfort; thanks, you’re awesome.

[@benhorne1404]

What to do if you've had both injuries and both flexion and extension hurt?

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Hi Ben! I would definitely suggest seeing a physio so you can have this properly assessed

[@AaronBrand]

Is it common to have Hoffa’s from overuse with a hip misalignment ?

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Overuse quite possibly… but I’m not personally convinced that the hip alignment plays a consistently significant role in that

[@user-kq1tt8so7t]

I have Hoffa’s Fat Pad Syndrome and its actually very painful, the fat pads on both my knees are constantly swollen and always irritated. My physical therapist tells me its because my knees goes slightly inwards which is putting the wrong load on my knee.

[@ClinicalPhysio]

🙏🏼

[@rajeshpr1565]

Is Suprapattellar fat pad syndrome the same hoffas syndrome

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Hi! No this is different, different location

[@DBRising]

Like and Subscribe. Good stuff!

[@ClinicalPhysio]

Thank you so much!

[@totallyraw1313]

"Cinemah" 😂

[@ClinicalPhysio]

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[@alexlackner1945]

Is Khalid British or Aussie?

[@totallyraw1313]

@@alexlackner1945 Clearly British!