Table 1

Search themes and search terms

Search themeSearch terms
Patellofemoral pain‘patellofemoral pain’
OR ‘patellofemoral pain syndrome’
OR ‘patellofemoral syndrome’
OR ‘anterior knee pain’
OR ‘anterior knee pain syndrome’
Brain‘cortical reorganization’
OR ‘corticospinal excitability’
OR ‘transcranial magnetic stimulation’
OR ‘motor evoked potential’
OR ‘mapping’
OR ‘magnetic resonance imaging’
OR ‘functional magnetic resonance imaging’
Spinal cord‘spinal excitability’
OR ‘H-reflex’
OR ‘Hoffman reflex’
OR ‘spinal reflex’
OR ‘stretch reflex’