"Mulligan Technique vs Phonophoresis With Chitosan for Patellofemoral Pain"

Inclusion Criteria

• •Insidious onset of anterior knee pain
• •Retro patellar or peripatellar pain
• •Pain duration more than four weeks (chronic/subacute)
• •Pain severity ≥ 3/10 on Visual Analog Scale (VAS)
• •Pain during at least two of the following activities: stair ascent or descent, squatting, prolonged sitting (theater sign), or kneeling
• •Positive patellar compression test (pain reproduced by compressing the patella into the trochlear groove)
• •Patellar tenderness along the medial or lateral borders
• •Age between 18 and 35 years
• •Baseline Kujala score (Arabic version): approximately 67-71 (indicating moderate to severe dysfunction)