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Effects of Hip and Knee Exercises on Knee Pain in Young Adult Females With Long-standing Patellofemoral Pain

NCT03054701 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2017-06-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patellofemoral pain (PFP) is highly prevalent in both adolescent and adult populations and as much as 91% of those affected experience ongoing knee pain for up to 20 years after the initial diagnosis.

Exercise-based treatment focusing on strengthening the muscles around the hip and knee is usually effective when treating patient with PFP. However, this approach has proven ineffective in a subgroup of females who have suffered from PFP for multiple years.

This group was found to have a significantly lower tolerance for pressure stimuli compared to healthy controls. This indicating that central mechanisms within the nervous system rather than the problem being the knee itself.

Exercising a non-painful muscle distant to a painful part of the body has previously been effective in deceasing pain in affected area. This mechanism has been investigated in patients with long-standing musculoskeletal pain as well as healthy populations.

Related research has suggested that a possible link between patients perception of painful stimuli an the pain-reducing effect of exercise exists. As such, patients witch experienced a pain reducing effect of exercise was found to be able to tolerate more pain than before the intervention.

The aim of this study is to assess if exercising a distant non-painful muscle around the hip has a larger acute pain-reducing effect on knee pain compared to knee specific exercises in female patients with long-standing PFP.

Conditions

  • Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

Interventions

OTHER

Hip specific resistance exercise

Hip specific resistance exercise

OTHER

Knee specific resistance exercise

Knee specific resistance exercise

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Aalborg University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael S Rathleff, PhD · Aalborg University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
25 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-03-07
Primary Completion
2017-05-17
Completion
2017-06-01

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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