Great video ... I have one of these and was having knee pain that was initially misdiagnosed because of a sports medicine doctor who didn't listen fully to my description of where and how I felt pain. This was ~15 years ago and I went to my school's medical library to research for myself and self-diagnose for the next trip to a doctor, who did an x-ray and confirmed my diagnosis. I wish KZfaq was around then for content like this :⁠-⁠) Presented when I would start doing long miles on the bike without enough of a base ... Seems I needed to make sure everything surrounding it was solid so that it wouldn't shift and irritate the nearby nerve. So long as I made sure to keep surrounding tissue strong (so don't take much of an offseason) hasn't happened since.

Hey dude learning something new today

Thank you for this video. I was diagnosed with Fabella Syndrome and needing to get it excised as non surgical measures have failed. I find it very interesting as I have it in both knees but only my left one has pain.

Great video, thank you

can you tell us the physiotheraphy treatment for the fabellar syndrome?

omg thanks for this! i just found out today I have a fabella bone in both of my knees!

Hello , How to cure from fabella .

can this thing be removed by surgery?

Had no idea this is sick

An idea occured to me, first I thought, how could they come to the conclusion that the fabella was more prevalent in previous evolutionary stages and then it began to dissapear? Couldn't it be that the fabella bones are just harder or impossible to find in an archeological dig site? Or do they assume the presence of a fabella on the basis of how the femur is structured on the back? Do you know?

i have this!

My ultrasound says i have a Fabella 😳

I have a Fabella in my right knee. Ive been walking consistently since 2021 of December. One day it became impossible to bend my knee do to the swelling of my knee. I was prescribed oral steroids and I’m still having pain. Waiting to see what an orthopedic dr says to do. Any suggestions or exercises I could do to calm it down?

prevalence of sitting on chairs maybe?

Asians are more likely to have a fabella than non-Asians. Population of Asia has increased much faster over the last 100 years than in most of the rest of the world. Would simple demographic somewhat explain the relative increase of fabella presence?