Adults with patellofemoral pain do not exhibit manifestations of peripheral and central sensitization when compared to healthy pain-free age and sex matched controls – An assessor blinded cross-sectional study

• Michael Skovdal Rathleff ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: misr@hst.aau.dk

  Affiliations Research Unit for General Practice in Aalborg, Department of Clinical Medicine at Aalborg University, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, Orthopaedic Surgery Research Unit, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1173-0335

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• Camilla Rams Rathleff,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Orthopaedic Surgery Research Unit, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

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• Aoife Stephenson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Physiotherapy, Brisbane, Australia

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• Rebecca Mellor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Physiotherapy, Brisbane, Australia

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• Mark Matthews,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Physiotherapy, Brisbane, Australia

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• Kay Crossley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Physiotherapy, Brisbane, Australia, College of Science, Health and Engineering. La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

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• Bill Vicenzino

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Physiotherapy, Brisbane, Australia

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