Assertion: patella | /r/CapableOf | reduce patellofemoral stresses
Facets:
value: especially
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: In contrast to the situation in humans (as well as in early hominins such as Australopithecus ), in chimpanzees and presumably many other primates (as well as other taxa such as sheep Bertollo, Pelletier & Walsh, 2012 , 2013 ), the patella remains in tight articulation with the femur throughout the knee’s range of motion, reducing patellofemoral stresses especially when the knee is strongly flexed, as it habitually is in those non-human primates ( Lovejoy, 2007 ).