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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about patellar tendinopathy and death from patellar tendinopathy.
Meaning of patellar tendinopathy
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, patellar tendinopathy:
(a)           means an acquired clinically symptomatic condition involving inflammation or degeneration of the patellar tendon; and
(b)          includes:
                (i)            degenerative distal quadriceps tendon tear or rupture;
                (ii)         degenerative patellar tendon tear or rupture;
                (iii)       distal quadriceps tendinitis or tendinopathy; and
                (iv)        patellar tendinitis; and
(c)           excludes:
                (i)            Osgood-Schlatter disease;
                (ii)         patellar tendon enthesopathy;
                (iii)       patellar tendon lateral femoral condyle friction syndrome (Hoffa fat pad impingement syndrome); and
                (iv)        Sinding-Larsen-Johansson syndrome.
Note:  The symptoms of patellar tendinopathy include pain and tenderness localised to the distal quadriceps or patellar tendon at the front of the knee, and a worsening of the symptoms with physical activity.
(3)          While patellar tendinopathy attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M76.5, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of patellar tendinopathy is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from patellar tendinopathy
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, patellar tendinopathy, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's patellar tendinopathy.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.