Pain in front of the knee is common in athletes and is often called patellofemoral arthralgia, but it is difficult to prove that the pain arises in that joint. Thermograms of 30 athletes clinically considered to have patellofemoral arthralgia were compared with those of a similar number of unaffected athletes matched for age and sex. A comparison was also made with thermograms of two older groups of 30 patients with knee involvement from either rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis. Twenty-eight of the athletes with patellofemoral arthralgia had a diagnostic pattern on thermography. The anterior knee view showed a rise in temperature on the medial side of the patella and the medial knee view showed that this temperature rise radiated from the patellar insertion of the vastus medialis into the muscle itself. The possible aetiological role ofquadriceps muscle imbalance in athletes with patellofemoral arthralgia

For years, theories for Raman scattering have been confined to either the insulating or fully metallic state. While much can be learned by focusing attention on the metal or insulator, recent experimental work on the cuprate systems points to the desirability of formulating a theory for Raman response which takes one through a quantum critical point -the metalinsulator transition. Using the Falicov-Kimball model as a canonical model of a MIT, we employ dynamical mean-field theory to construct an exact theory for non-resonant Raman scattering. In particular we examine the formation of charge transfer peaks and pseudogaps as well as the low-energy dynamics. The results are qualitatively compared to the experimental B 1g Raman spectra in the cuprates, which probes the hot quasiparticles along the Brillouin zone axes. The results shed important information on normal state electronic transport and the pseudo-gap in the cuprates.